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BU Bioinformatics 2024 Student-Organized Symposium
Our 17th annual Bioinformatics Student-Organized Symposium (SoS) was held on June 7th, 2023. With an exciting line up of invited...
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Bioinformatics student Whitney Souery Receives Prestigious BU Women’s Guild Scholarship
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BU Bioinformatics Professor Daniel Segrè Elected AAAS Fellow
Daniel Segrè: Using Microbes to Improve Health, Fight Climate Change Your body is full of little colonies of microbes—some working in...
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Mohammed Muzamil Khan Successfully Defends
Congratulations to Mohammed Muzamil Khan on the successful defense of their thesis. "From Lesions to Treatment: A Multi-Species...
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Aubrey Odom Successfully Defends
Congratulations to Aubrey Odom on the successful defense of their thesis. "Methods and Tools for Characterizing Microbial Communities in...
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Bostonia Alumni Article
Boston University Alumni Magazine Rhonda Harrison graduated from Boston University Bioinformatics Program in 2004, marking two major...
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William Hackett Successfully Defends
Congratulations to William Hackett on the successful defense of their thesis. "Improving Reproducibility and Standards in Quantitative...
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Jacquelyn Turcinovic Successfully Defends
Congratulations to Jacquelyn Turcinovic on the successful defense of their thesis. "Methods and Tools for Characterizing Microbial...
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Bioinformatics Joins CDS!
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Sep 6, 20231 min read
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Ethel Nankya Successfully Defends
Congratulations to Ethel Nankya on the successful defense of their thesis. "Computational Approaches for Metatranscriptomic Profiling in...
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Jing Zhang Successfully Defends
Congratulations to Jing Zhang on the successful defense of their thesis."Methods for Studying and Manipulating Microbial Ecosystems"...
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Ahmed Youssef Successfully Defends
Congratulations to Ahmed Youssef on the successful defense of their thesis. "Computational Methods to Uncover Cell State Proteomes and...
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BU Bioinformatics 2023 Student-Organized Symposium
BU Bioinformatics Student-Organized Symposium Our 16th annual Bioinformatics Student-Organized Symposium (SoS) was held on June 7th,...
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Howard Fan Successfully Defends
Congratulations to Howard Fan on the successful defense of their thesis. "Improving Batch Effect Correction of Metagenomic Data:...
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Dakota Hawkins Successfully Defends
Congratulations to Dakota Hawkins on the successful defense of their thesis. "Bioinformatic Approaches for Understanding Cell-Type...
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Bioinformatics Alumni Joins BU's IS&T
Andy graduated with a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from BU in 2019 - making this a back-to-BU career move! Andy (he, him, his) is a Research...
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Student Socials
Here are just some of the socials our Bioinformatics students have organized over the course of the Fall semester. · Apple...
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This BU Class Aims to Undo a History of Racism in Science and Healthcare
Melisa Osborne, Bioinformatics Research Assistant Professor, is among the team of people who designed and teach the Institutional Racism...
Dec 12, 20221 min read
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2022 BRITE REU Students Present at ABRCMS
All ten of the 2022 BU BRITE REU students were selected to present their research posters at the 2022 Annual Biomedical Research...
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Summer Socials
Here are just some of the socials our Bioinformatics students have organized over the summer. · Red Sox game · 1st year welcome at Night...
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Pawel Przytycki Joins the Bioinformatics Faculty
Boston University is proud to welcome Pawel Przytycki as assistant professor in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) and a core...
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Brian Cleary Joins the Bioinformatics Faculty
Boston University is proud to welcome Brian Cleary as assistant professor in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) and a core...
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Bioinformatic Student-Organized Symposium 2022
The 15th annual Bioinformatics Student-Organized Symposium (SoS) took place on June 1st, 2022. Every aspect of this symposium was...
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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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BU Bioinformatics Student-Organized Symposium
BU Bioinformatics Student-Organized Symposium June 1, 2022 The 15th annual Bioinformatics Student-Organized Symposium (SoS) will be held...
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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
Third year Bioinformatics PhD candidate Jackie Turcinovic, from the Connor Lab, featured in the article BU Scientists Are Prepared to...
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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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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!
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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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!
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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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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Katie Atherton wins NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines. Congratulations Katie!
Apr 27, 20211 min read
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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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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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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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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...
Mar 19, 20211 min read
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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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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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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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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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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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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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David Bray Successfully Defends His Thesis
Congratulations to David Bray on the successful defense of his thesis, "High-Throughput Approaches to Discover and Characterize...
Aug 7, 20202 min read
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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...
Aug 6, 20202 min read
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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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