May 131 minCongratulations Michael!Michael has been selected as a 2022 Graduate Student Fellow of the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science &...
Dec 10, 20211 minBU Scientists Are Prepared to Detect Omicron—and Other VariantsThird year Bioinformatics PhD candidate Jackie Turcinovic, from the Connor Lab, featured in the article BU Scientists Are Prepared to...
Nov 17, 20211 minCongratulations! Congratulations to four of our BRITE students who were awarded ABRCMS poster presentation awards: Zoe Barinaga Ryan Hernandez-Cancela...
Nov 12, 20211 minNOW HIRING ~ FACULTY POSITION IN COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGYThe Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) at Boston University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position...
Nov 10, 20211 min2021 BRITE REU STUDENTS PRESENTING AT ABRCMSNine of the 2021 BU BRITE REU students were selected to present their research posters at ABRCMS 2021 (Annual Biomedical Research...
Aug 26, 20211 minSummer Socials!The student social committee organized many exciting socials over the summer: To name a few: -Strawberry picking at Lookout Farm -Hangout...
Aug 10, 20211 minMetabolic Pathway Analysis ConferenceThird year student, Devlin Moyer attended the 2021 Metabolic Pathway Analysis University of Tennessee, Knoxville • August 2-6, 2021 The...
May 14, 20211 minCongratulations 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...
May 11, 20211 minDileep Kishore & Michael Silverstein Selected to be Kilachand FellowsDileep, and Michael, both of the Segrè lab, have been awarded a Kilachand Fellowship, as part of the BU Multicellular Design Program...
Apr 27, 20211 minKatie Atherton wins NSF GRFP Honorable MentionThe NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines. Congratulations Katie!
Apr 9, 20212 minZhe Wang Successfully Defends His ThesisCongratulations to Zhe Wang on the successful defense of their thesis, "Enhancing Preprocessing and Clustering of Single-Cell RNA...
Apr 8, 20213 minKe Xu Successfully Defends His ThesisCongratulations to Ke Xu on the successful defense of their thesis, "Airway Gene Expression Alterations in Association with Radiographic...
Mar 24, 20212 minMarzie Rasekh Successfully Defends Her ThesisCongratulations to Marzie Rasekh on the successful defense of their thesis, "Characterizing VNTRS in Human Populations" Great job Marzie!...
Mar 19, 20211 minStatement Against Anti-Asian ViolenceThe horrific massacre in Atlanta of eight people, six of them Asian women, prompts me to write to you again to reiterate that BU...
Mar 1, 20211 minCongratulations 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...
Dec 3, 20202 minTyler Faits Successfully Defends His ThesisCongratulations to Tyler Faits on the successful defense of their thesis, "The Evaluation, Application, and Expansion of 16S Amplicon...
Oct 14, 20202 minAlan Pacheco Successfully Defends His ThesisCongratulations to Alan Pacheco on the successful defense of his thesis, "Environmental Modulation of Microbial Ecosystems." Great job...
Aug 24, 20202 minDevanshi Patel Successfully Defends Her ThesisCongratulations to Devanshi Patel on the successful defense of her thesis, "Tissue-Dependent Analysis of Common and Rare Genetic Variants...
Aug 18, 20201 minKirill Korolev Receives NSF Faculty Early Career Development AwardKirill was awarded a 2020 NSF Faculty Early Career Development award, for his project titled, CAREER: Evolution During Spatial Growth....
Aug 14, 20202 minMichael Quintin Successfully Defends His ThesisCongratulations to Michael Quintin on the successful defense of his thesis, "Computational Biology of microbial Genomes and Metabolism...
Aug 7, 20202 minDavid Bray Successfully Defends His ThesisCongratulations to David Bray on the successful defense of his thesis, "High-Throughput Approaches to Discover and Characterize...
Aug 6, 20202 minSebastian Carrasco Pro Successfully Defends His ThesisCongratulations to Sebastian Carrasco Pro on the successful defense of his thesis, "Transcriptional Regulation Landscape in Health and...
Jul 28, 20202 minEric Reed Successfully Defends His ThesisCongratulations to Eric Reed on the successful defense of his thesis, "Development of Advanced Methods for Large-Scale Transcriptomic...
Jun 10, 20201 minStatement Against RacismAs Director of the Boston University Bioinformatics Program, I pledge that our community stands in solidarity with Black people in the...
Jun 9, 20202 minBU Bioinformatics Program Statement of Solidarity Against RacismDear students, As Director of the Boston University Bioinformatics Program, I pledge that our community stands in solidarity with Black...
May 30, 20201 minCongratulations 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...
May 29, 20201 minKirill Korolev Promoted to Associate ProfessorBoston University Board of Trustees has approved the promotion of Kirill Korolev to Associate Professor with tenure. This is an important...
Apr 3, 20201 minYue (Jason) Zhao Successfully Defends His ThesisCongratulations to Yue (Jason) Zhao on the successful defense of his thesis, "Data Mining of Host Transcriptome and Microbiome in...
Mar 23, 20202 minKatherine Norwood Successfully Defends Her ThesisCongratulations to Katherine Norwood on the successful defense of her thesis, "Statistical Methods & Algorithms for Autonomous...
Mar 2, 20201 minYuqing Zhang Successfully Defends His ThesisCongratulations to Yuqing Zhang on the successful defense of his thesis, "Statistical and Computational Methods For Addressing...
Dec 2, 20192 minDaniel Lancour Successfully Defends His ThesisCongratulations to Daneil Lancour on the successful defense of his thesis, "Integrative Multi-Omic Network Strategies for Unraveling...
Aug 13, 20192 minDemetrius DiMucci Successfully Defends His ThesisCongratulations to Demetrius DiMucci in the successful defense of his thesis, "Machine Learning Applications for Synthetic Microbial...
Aug 6, 20192 minJessica Keenan Successfully Defends His ThesisCongratulations to Jessica Keenan on the successful defense of her thesis, "Characterizing Mechanisms of Regulatory Specificity in the...
Jul 23, 20191 min2019 IBSB in KyotoJuly 14th - 17th Kyoto, Japan 19th International Workshop of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (IBSB 2019) is part of an international...
Jun 14, 20191 minNew 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...
Jun 5, 20191 min2019 BU Bioinformatics Student-Organized SymposiumJune 5, 2019 | 9:30AM to 5:30PM | LSEB B01 24 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215 Featuring the following distinguished speakers: Eric...
Jun 5, 20192 minYuqing Zhang Presented at the 2019 Symposium of Data Science and StatisticsPhD candidate Yuqing Zhang attended the 2019 Symposium of Data Science and Statistics from May 29 – June 1, 2019 in Bellevue, Washington....
May 25, 20191 minCongratulations 2019 Bioinformatics Graduate Award Winners!Anastasia Gurinovich, PhD & Demarcus Briers, PhD were each awarded the Community Outreach Award. This award is presented annually to...
May 20, 20191 minCongratulations 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...
Nov 6, 20181 minYue (Jason) Zhao Presented A Poster At The ASHG 2018Yue (Jason) Zhao presented a poster at the ASHG 2018 (The American Society of Human Genetics) in San Diego, CA which took place October...
Jun 10, 20188 minBig News Coming From The Spira LabBU Johnson & Johnson Innovation Team Up to Fight Lung Cancer. Avrum Spira, a School of Medicine professor of medicine, pathology, and...
Apr 3, 20181 minRecent Bioinformatics grad, Emily Speranza from the Connor Lab, was featured in BU Today for their wDiagnosing Ebola before Symptoms Arrive BU researchers, colleagues: early immune response may lead to diagnosis sooner. In 2014, an Ebola...
Apr 3, 20181 minRead John D. Hogan's & Josh A. Klein's New PublicationRead John D. Hogan and Joshua A. Klein's paper in the Molecular and Cellular Proteomics about Software for peak finding and elemental...
Dec 6, 20171 minEmily Speranza Successfully Defends Her ThesisCongratulations to Emily Speranza on the successful defense of her thesis, "Circulating Immune Response to Ebola Virus Disease in Humans...
Nov 27, 20171 minEve Byington, M.S. student, wins a GSI Research Symposium poster awardCongratulations to M.S. student Eve Byington on winning one of four Best Poster Presentation prizes at the 2017 GSI Research Symposium...
Oct 13, 20171 minDaniel Segrè Awarded the Evans Center IBR Excellence Research Collaborator AwardCongratulations to Professor Daniel Segrè on receiving the Evans Center IBR Excellence Research Collaborator Award at the 2017 Evans...
Sep 12, 20171 minPh.D. candidate Alan Pacheco Wins HHMI Gilliam FellowshipAlan Pacheco (ENG’15,’22), a PhD candidate in the Boston University Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, is the first BU graduate to...
Aug 11, 20171 minBioinformatics Students Place 2nd and 3rd in the 2017 IBSB Poster SessionTwo groups of Bioinformatics Ph.D. students placed in the Poster Session at the 2017 IBSB in Berlin! Dakota Hawkins, Xingyi Shi, and...
Aug 11, 20171 minBioinformatics Representing at ISMB/ECCB 2017A few of our Ph.D. students attended the 2017 ISMB/ECCB in Prague last month. Kritika Karri, Dileep Kishore, and Tanya Karagiannis...