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    Congratulations Michael!
    • May 13
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    Congratulations Michael!

    Michael has been selected as a 2022 Graduate Student Fellow of the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science &...
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    Student Social!
    • Dec 10, 2021
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    Student Social!

    Bioinformatics students run the Cambridge Winter Classic 5K
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    BU Scientists Are Prepared to Detect Omicron—and Other Variants
    • Dec 10, 2021
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    BU Scientists Are Prepared to Detect Omicron—and Other Variants

    Third year Bioinformatics PhD candidate Jackie Turcinovic, from the Connor Lab, featured in the article BU Scientists Are Prepared to...
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    • Nov 17, 2021
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    Congratulations!

    Congratulations to four of our BRITE students who were awarded ABRCMS poster presentation awards: Zoe Barinaga Ryan Hernandez-Cancela...
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    • Nov 12, 2021
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    NOW HIRING ~ FACULTY POSITION IN COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

    The Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) at Boston University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position...
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    • Nov 10, 2021
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    2021 BRITE REU STUDENTS PRESENTING AT ABRCMS

    Nine of the 2021 BU BRITE REU students were selected to present their research posters at ABRCMS 2021 (Annual Biomedical Research...
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    Summer Socials!
    • Aug 26, 2021
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    Summer Socials!

    The student social committee organized many exciting socials over the summer: To name a few: -Strawberry picking at Lookout Farm -Hangout...
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    • Aug 10, 2021
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    Metabolic Pathway Analysis Conference

    Third year student, Devlin Moyer attended the 2021 Metabolic Pathway Analysis University of Tennessee, Knoxville • August 2-6, 2021 The...
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    Congratulations 2021 Graduates!
    • May 14, 2021
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    Congratulations 2021 Graduates!

    PhD 2020-21 Zhe Wang Ke Xu Marzie Rasekh Tyler Faits Alan Pacheco David Bray Sebastian Carrasco Pro Katherine Norwood Devanshi Patel Eric...
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    • May 11, 2021
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    Dileep Kishore & Michael Silverstein Selected to be Kilachand Fellows

    Dileep, and Michael, both of the Segrè lab, have been awarded a Kilachand Fellowship, as part of the BU Multicellular Design Program...
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    • Apr 27, 2021
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    Katie Atherton wins NSF GRFP Honorable Mention

    The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines. Congratulations Katie!
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    • Apr 9, 2021
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    Zhe Wang Successfully Defends His Thesis

    Congratulations to Zhe Wang on the successful defense of their thesis, "Enhancing Preprocessing and Clustering of Single-Cell RNA...
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    • Apr 8, 2021
    • 3 min

    Ke Xu Successfully Defends His Thesis

    Congratulations to Ke Xu on the successful defense of their thesis, "Airway Gene Expression Alterations in Association with Radiographic...
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    • Mar 24, 2021
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    Marzie Rasekh Successfully Defends Her Thesis

    Congratulations to Marzie Rasekh on the successful defense of their thesis, "Characterizing VNTRS in Human Populations" Great job Marzie!...
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    • Mar 19, 2021
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    Statement Against Anti-Asian Violence

    The horrific massacre in Atlanta of eight people, six of them Asian women, prompts me to write to you again to reiterate that BU...
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    • Mar 1, 2021
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    Congratulations to Alan Pacheco!

    Alan has been awarded a James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. The grant is part of JSMF's 21st Century Science...
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    • Dec 3, 2020
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    Tyler Faits Successfully Defends His Thesis

    Congratulations to Tyler Faits on the successful defense of their thesis, "The Evaluation, Application, and Expansion of 16S Amplicon...
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    • Oct 14, 2020
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    Alan Pacheco Successfully Defends His Thesis

    Congratulations to Alan Pacheco on the successful defense of his thesis, "Environmental Modulation of Microbial Ecosystems." Great job...
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    • Aug 24, 2020
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    Devanshi Patel Successfully Defends Her Thesis

    Congratulations to Devanshi Patel on the successful defense of her thesis, "Tissue-Dependent Analysis of Common and Rare Genetic Variants...
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    • Aug 18, 2020
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    Kirill Korolev Receives NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award

    Kirill was awarded a 2020 NSF Faculty Early Career Development award, for his project titled, CAREER: Evolution During Spatial Growth....
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    • Aug 14, 2020
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    Michael Quintin Successfully Defends His Thesis

    Congratulations to Michael Quintin on the successful defense of his thesis, "Computational Biology of microbial Genomes and Metabolism...
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    • Aug 7, 2020
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    David Bray Successfully Defends His Thesis

    Congratulations to David Bray on the successful defense of his thesis, "High-Throughput Approaches to Discover and Characterize...
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    • Aug 6, 2020
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    Sebastian Carrasco Pro Successfully Defends His Thesis

    Congratulations to Sebastian Carrasco Pro on the successful defense of his thesis, "Transcriptional Regulation Landscape in Health and...
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    • Jul 28, 2020
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    Eric Reed Successfully Defends His Thesis

    Congratulations to Eric Reed on the successful defense of his thesis, "Development of Advanced Methods for Large-Scale Transcriptomic...
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    • Jun 10, 2020
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    Statement Against Racism

    As Director of the Boston University Bioinformatics Program, I pledge that our community stands in solidarity with Black people in the...
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    • Jun 9, 2020
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    BU Bioinformatics Program Statement of Solidarity Against Racism

    Dear students, As Director of the Boston University Bioinformatics Program, I pledge that our community stands in solidarity with Black...
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    Congratulations to our Class of 2020 Bioinformatics Graduates!
    • May 30, 2020
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    Congratulations to our Class of 2020 Bioinformatics Graduates!

    Despite having experienced a unique end to their year, we are happy to congratulate our Bioinformatics Class of 2020: PhD Yozen...
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    • May 29, 2020
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    Kirill Korolev Promoted to Associate Professor

    Boston University Board of Trustees has approved the promotion of Kirill Korolev to Associate Professor with tenure. This is an important...
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    • Apr 3, 2020
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    Yue (Jason) Zhao Successfully Defends His Thesis

    Congratulations to Yue (Jason) Zhao on the successful defense of his thesis, "Data Mining of Host Transcriptome and Microbiome in...
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    • Mar 23, 2020
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    Katherine Norwood Successfully Defends Her Thesis

    Congratulations to Katherine Norwood on the successful defense of her thesis, "Statistical Methods & Algorithms for Autonomous...
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    • Mar 2, 2020
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    Yuqing Zhang Successfully Defends His Thesis

    Congratulations to Yuqing Zhang on the successful defense of his thesis, "Statistical and Computational Methods For Addressing...
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    • Dec 2, 2019
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    Daniel Lancour Successfully Defends His Thesis

    Congratulations to Daneil Lancour on the successful defense of his thesis, "Integrative Multi-Omic Network Strategies for Unraveling...
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    • Aug 13, 2019
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    Demetrius DiMucci Successfully Defends His Thesis

    Congratulations to Demetrius DiMucci in the successful defense of his thesis, "Machine Learning Applications for Synthetic Microbial...
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    • Aug 6, 2019
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    Jessica Keenan Successfully Defends His Thesis

    Congratulations to Jessica Keenan on the successful defense of her thesis, "Characterizing Mechanisms of Regulatory Specificity in the...
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    • Jul 23, 2019
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    2019 IBSB in Kyoto

    July 14th - 17th Kyoto, Japan 19th International Workshop of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (IBSB 2019) is part of an international...
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    New Publication by Alan Pacheco and         Dr. Daniel Segrè
    • Jun 14, 2019
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    New Publication by Alan Pacheco and Dr. Daniel Segrè

    "A multidimensional perspective on microbial interactions" PhD candidate Alan Pacheco and Dr. Daniel Segrè recently published a new...
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    • Jun 5, 2019
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    2019 BU Bioinformatics Student-Organized Symposium

    June 5, 2019 | 9:30AM to 5:30PM | LSEB B01 24 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215 Featuring the following distinguished speakers: Eric...
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    Yuqing Zhang Presented at the 2019 Symposium of Data Science and Statistics
    • Jun 5, 2019
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    Yuqing Zhang Presented at the 2019 Symposium of Data Science and Statistics

    PhD candidate Yuqing Zhang attended the 2019 Symposium of Data Science and Statistics from May 29 – June 1, 2019 in Bellevue, Washington....
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    • May 25, 2019
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    Congratulations 2019 Bioinformatics Graduate Award Winners!

    Anastasia Gurinovich, PhD & Demarcus Briers, PhD were each awarded the Community Outreach Award. This award is presented annually to...
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    Congratulations to our 2019 Bioinformatics Graduates!
    • May 20, 2019
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    Congratulations to our 2019 Bioinformatics Graduates!

    Pictured above: PhD Graduates Junmin Wang, Amy Li, Brenna LaBarre, JD Hogan, and Demarcus Briers Masters Filisia Agus William Alvarez...
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    Yue (Jason) Zhao Presented A Poster At The ASHG 2018
    • Nov 6, 2018
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    Yue (Jason) Zhao Presented A Poster At The ASHG 2018

    Yue (Jason) Zhao presented a poster at the ASHG 2018 (The American Society of Human Genetics) in San Diego, CA which took place October...
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    Big News Coming From The Spira Lab
    • Jun 10, 2018
    • 8 min

    Big News Coming From The Spira Lab

    BU Johnson & Johnson Innovation Team Up to Fight Lung Cancer. Avrum Spira, a School of Medicine professor of medicine, pathology, and...
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    Recent Bioinformatics grad, Emily Speranza from the Connor Lab, was featured in BU Today for their w
    • Apr 3, 2018
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    Recent Bioinformatics grad, Emily Speranza from the Connor Lab, was featured in BU Today for their w

    Diagnosing Ebola before Symptoms Arrive BU researchers, colleagues: early immune response may lead to diagnosis sooner. In 2014, an Ebola...
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    Read John D. Hogan's & Josh A. Klein's New Publication
    • Apr 3, 2018
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    Read John D. Hogan's & Josh A. Klein's New Publication

    Read John D. Hogan and Joshua A. Klein's paper in the Molecular and Cellular Proteomics about Software for peak finding and elemental...
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    • Dec 6, 2017
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    Emily Speranza Successfully Defends Her Thesis

    Congratulations to Emily Speranza on the successful defense of her thesis, "Circulating Immune Response to Ebola Virus Disease in Humans...
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    Eve Byington, M.S. student, wins a GSI Research Symposium poster award
    • Nov 27, 2017
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    Eve Byington, M.S. student, wins a GSI Research Symposium poster award

    Congratulations to M.S. student Eve Byington on winning one of four Best Poster Presentation prizes at the 2017 GSI Research Symposium...
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    Daniel Segrè Awarded the Evans Center IBR Excellence Research Collaborator Award
    • Oct 13, 2017
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    Daniel Segrè Awarded the Evans Center IBR Excellence Research Collaborator Award

    Congratulations to Professor Daniel Segrè on receiving the Evans Center IBR Excellence Research Collaborator Award at the 2017 Evans...
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    Ph.D. candidate Alan Pacheco Wins HHMI Gilliam Fellowship
    • Sep 12, 2017
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    Ph.D. candidate Alan Pacheco Wins HHMI Gilliam Fellowship

    Alan Pacheco (ENG’15,’22), a PhD candidate in the Boston University Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, is the first BU graduate to...
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    Bioinformatics Students Place 2nd and 3rd in the 2017 IBSB Poster Session
    • Aug 11, 2017
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    Bioinformatics Students Place 2nd and 3rd in the 2017 IBSB Poster Session

    Two groups of Bioinformatics Ph.D. students placed in the Poster Session at the 2017 IBSB in Berlin! Dakota Hawkins, Xingyi Shi, and...
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    Bioinformatics Representing at ISMB/ECCB 2017
    • Aug 11, 2017
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    Bioinformatics Representing at ISMB/ECCB 2017

    A few of our Ph.D. students attended the 2017 ISMB/ECCB in Prague last month. Kritika Karri, Dileep Kishore, and Tanya Karagiannis...
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