Allyson Byrd – Best Poster Winner At ISMB/ECCB
Congratulations to Allyson Byrd who won a best poster award at ISMB/ECCB in Berlin. She presented the IGERT Challenge Project poster, Clinical Pathoscope: An alignment and filtering pipeline for rapid pathogen identification in unassembled, next-generation sequencing data. Allyson and her team members Joseph Perez-Rogers and Kylee Bergin worked on their Challenge Project with Prof. Evan Johnson in the Computational Biomedicine Dept at the BU School of Medicine. Great job!!
Nature publishes paper from Galagan Lab
Six BU Bioinfo students in Prof. James Galagan's Lab were part of a group that had their research published online today in Nature, Anna Lyubetskaya, Elham Azizi, Antonio Gomes, Irina Glotova, Wen-Han Yu and Jonathan Dreyfuss. Read the paper, The Mycobacterium tuberculosis regulatory network and hypoxia.
Bioinformatics Students Presenting at ISMB 2013
Allyson Byrd and Anna Lyubetskaya will be presenting at the ISMB/ECCB 2013, in Berlin from July 21-23. Allyson was selected to give an 8 minute presentation of her group's IGERT Challenge Project poster, and Anna will be giving a satellite talk on her research on the regulatory network of TB transcription factors.
2013 IBSB in Kyoto
More than 20 students and faculty from BU Bioinformatics will be traveling to Kyoto this summer to attend the 13th Annual International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. The IBSB 2013 is part of an international collaboration between Bioinformatics Graduate Program at BU, the Computational Systems Biology training program in Germany, the Human Genome Center at the University of Tokyo, and the International Research and Training Program on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology in the Bioinformatics Center at Kyoto University.
Prof. Daniel Segrè featured in the current issue of Bostonia
What Is Life? Prof. Segrè writes from a biologist's perspective in the Winter-Spring 2013 issue of Bostonia magazine.
Evan Maxwell’s Research mentioned in Nature
Evan Maxwell's recent comb jellies paper in BMC Genomics was mentioned in a Nature news piece, which was also re-printed in Scientific American.
Carl Zimmer reports on BU Bioinfo Alum Evan Snitkin in Wired Magazine
Check out Carl Zimmer’s report in Wired Magazine about Evan Snitkin’s (PhD ’09) work using genome sequencing to help solve the infectious outbreak mystery at the NIH Clinical Center.
BU Bioinformatics Alumni Featured on Genome Technology’s 2012 List of Top Young Investigators
Congratulations to Tim Reddy (PhD '08) and Evan Snitkin (PhD '09) who have been named to the 2012 list of Genome Technology's Top Young Investigators. The magazine's annual list includes 23 up-and-coming investigators in the genomics field. Prof. Reddy is currently at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, and Dr. Snitkin is a Postdoc Fellow at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). They join several BU Bioinfo alumni who have been listed as Top Young Investigators, including Farren Isaacs (2007), Steven Parker (2010) and Vincent Fusaro (2011).
Detecting Lung Cancer Sooner: Avrum Spira’s Research Featured by BU School of Medicine
Avrum Spira, MD, MSc works to develop molecular tests that detect lung cancer early. "Now," BU School of Medicine writes, "with a $13.7 million grant from the Department of Defense, he is carrying the research forward as leader of a five-year study called Detecting Early Lung Cancer Among Military Personnel (DECAMP)."
Students Present at RECOMB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics
Several Bioinformatics students presented at the 2012 RECOMB Conference on Systems Biology and Regulatory Genomics this November in San Francisco. IGERT Fellows, Andy Rampersaud and George Steinhardt, presented a poster, and Antonio Gomes was invited to give a talk about his project, Decoding ChIP-seq with double-binding signal provides site detection with high-resolution and predictions of cooperative interactions.
The RECOMB conference was held from November 12-15, 2012.
