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Sunday, February 14, 2021

Robin E.C. Lee Named Sloan Foundation Research Fellow

Robin E.C. Lee, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational & Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh, has been named one of the 126 Sloan Research Fellows for 2020.
Friday, December 04, 2020

Open Q&A with Director Dr. James Faeder

Q&A with James Faeder for students interested in applying to the Ph.D. program.
Friday, November 13, 2020

Ask the Professor: Applying for a Ph.D. program with Dr. Oana Carja

Q&A with Oana Carja to discuss applying for Ph.D programs
Carnegie Mellon Heads New Center for Studying Structure of Cell Nucleus
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Carnegie Mellon Heads New Center for Studying Structure of Cell Nucleus

Carnegie Mellon University will direct a new multi-institution research center funded by the National Institutes of Health to develop a better understanding of the three-dimensional structure of cell nuclei and how changes in that structure affect cell functions in health and disease.
Amanda Kowalczyk receives Catalyst Award
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Amanda Kowalczyk receives Catalyst Award

Congratulations to Amanda Kowalczyk, one of the recipients of the 2020 Catalyst Award from the Pittsburgh Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine (CEBaM).
Bokai Zhu receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Wednesday, October 07, 2020

Bokai Zhu receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

Congratulations to Dr. Bokai Zhu for being awarded a NIH Common Fund New Innovator Award
HuBMAP Inaugural Data Release Puts Detailed Anatomical Data about Seven Human Organs at the Service of Scientists, Public
Wednesday, September 02, 2020

HuBMAP Inaugural Data Release Puts Detailed Anatomical Data about Seven Human Organs at the Service of Scientists, Public

HuBMAP (the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program) has released its inaugural data for use by the scientific community and the general public.
Schwartz Named Head of CMU’s Computational Biology Department
Friday, June 19, 2020

Schwartz Named Head of CMU’s Computational Biology Department

Schwartz Named Head of CMU’s Computational Biology Department
Drs. Joseph Ayoob and Joshua Kangas publish in PLoS Computational Biology
Sunday, May 10, 2020

Drs. Joseph Ayoob and Joshua Kangas publish in PLoS Computational Biology

Dr. Joseph Ayoob, Associate Professor, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh; and Dr. Joshua Kangas, Assistant Teaching Professor, Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University have published “10 Simple Rules for Teaching Wet-Lab Experimentation to Computational Biology Students (aka, turning computer mice into lab rats)” in PLoS Computational Biology.
Dr. Ivet Bahar has been elected a member of The National Academy of Sciences
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Dr. Ivet Bahar has been elected a member of The National Academy of Sciences

Dr. Ivet Bahar is among the exceptional scientists elected this year to the The National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
CPCB CMU Student Ruochi Zhang Lead Author – Exploring a Genome’s 3D Organization Through a Social Network Lens
Monday, February 24, 2020

CPCB CMU Student Ruochi Zhang Lead Author – Exploring a Genome’s 3D Organization Through a Social Network Lens

Computational biologists at Carnegie Mellon University have taken an algorithm used to study social networks, such as Facebook communities, and adapted it to identify how DNA and proteins are interconnected into communities within the cell nucleus.
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