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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...

Jun 10, 20241 min read

Bioinformatics student Whitney Souery Receives Prestigious BU Women’s Guild Scholarship

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Jun 5, 20241 min read

Congratulations to our 2024 Graduates!

May 21, 20240 min read

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...

Apr 19, 20241 min read

Mohammed Muzamil Khan Successfully Defends

Congratulations to Mohammed Muzamil Khan on the successful defense of their thesis. "From Lesions to Treatment: A Multi-Species...

Apr 12, 20244 min read

Aubrey Odom Successfully Defends

Congratulations to Aubrey Odom on the successful defense of their thesis. "Methods and Tools for Characterizing Microbial Communities in...

Apr 1, 20242 min read

Bostonia Alumni Article

Boston University Alumni Magazine Rhonda Harrison graduated from Boston University Bioinformatics Program in 2004, marking two major...

Mar 28, 20241 min read

William Hackett Successfully Defends

Congratulations to William Hackett on the successful defense of their thesis. "Improving Reproducibility and Standards in Quantitative...

Feb 8, 20242 min read

Jacquelyn Turcinovic Successfully Defends

Congratulations to Jacquelyn Turcinovic on the successful defense of their thesis. "Methods and Tools for Characterizing Microbial...

Oct 3, 20232 min read

Bioinformatics Joins CDS!

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Sep 6, 20231 min read

Ethel Nankya Successfully Defends

Congratulations to Ethel Nankya on the successful defense of their thesis. "Computational Approaches for Metatranscriptomic Profiling in...

Aug 25, 20233 min read

Jing Zhang Successfully Defends

Congratulations to Jing Zhang on the successful defense of their thesis."Methods for Studying and Manipulating Microbial Ecosystems"...

Aug 2, 20232 min read

Ahmed Youssef Successfully Defends

Congratulations to Ahmed Youssef on the successful defense of their thesis. "Computational Methods to Uncover Cell State Proteomes and...

Jun 16, 20232 min read

BU Bioinformatics 2023 Student-Organized Symposium

BU Bioinformatics Student-Organized Symposium Our 16th annual Bioinformatics Student-Organized Symposium (SoS) was held on June 7th,...

Jun 15, 20231 min read

Congratulations to our 2023 Graduates!

May 20, 20230 min read

Howard Fan Successfully Defends

Congratulations to Howard Fan on the successful defense of their thesis. "Improving Batch Effect Correction of Metagenomic Data:...

Apr 21, 20232 min read

Dakota Hawkins Successfully Defends

Congratulations to Dakota Hawkins on the successful defense of their thesis. "Bioinformatic Approaches for Understanding Cell-Type...

Apr 19, 20232 min read

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...

Feb 2, 20231 min read

Student Socials

Here are just some of the socials our Bioinformatics students have organized over the course of the Fall semester. · Apple...

Dec 16, 20221 min read

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

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...

Nov 4, 20221 min read

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...

Sep 2, 20221 min read

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...

Aug 26, 20221 min read

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...

Aug 26, 20221 min read

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...

Jun 11, 20221 min read

Congratulations 2022 Graduates!

May 26, 20220 min read

Congratulations Michael!

Michael has been selected as a 2022 Graduate Student Fellow of the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science &...

May 13, 20221 min read

BU Bioinformatics Student-Organized Symposium

BU Bioinformatics Student-Organized Symposium June 1, 2022 The 15th annual Bioinformatics Student-Organized Symposium (SoS) will be held...

May 7, 20221 min read

Student Social!

Bioinformatics students run the Cambridge Winter Classic 5K

Dec 10, 20211 min read

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...

Dec 10, 20211 min read

Congratulations!

Congratulations to four of our BRITE students who were awarded ABRCMS poster presentation awards: Zoe Barinaga Ryan Hernandez-Cancela...

Nov 17, 20211 min read

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...

Nov 10, 20211 min read

Summer Socials!

The student social committee organized many exciting socials over the summer: To name a few: -Strawberry picking at Lookout Farm -Hangout...

Aug 26, 20211 min read

Metabolic Pathway Analysis Conference

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

Aug 10, 20211 min read

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...

May 14, 20211 min read

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...

May 11, 20211 min read

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

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...

Apr 9, 20212 min read

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...

Apr 8, 20213 min read

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!...

Mar 24, 20212 min read

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

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...

Mar 1, 20211 min read

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...

Dec 3, 20202 min read

Alan Pacheco Successfully Defends His Thesis

Congratulations to Alan Pacheco on the successful defense of his thesis, "Environmental Modulation of Microbial Ecosystems." Great job...

Oct 14, 20202 min read

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...

Aug 24, 20202 min read

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....

Aug 18, 20201 min read

Michael Quintin Successfully Defends His Thesis

Congratulations to Michael Quintin on the successful defense of his thesis, "Computational Biology of microbial Genomes and Metabolism...

Aug 14, 20202 min read

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

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

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...

Jul 28, 20202 min read