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Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Thesis Defense: Abhinav Adduri | October 29, 2024 | 10 a.m.

Thesis defense for CPCB student Abhinav Adduri on October 29, 2024.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Thesis Defense: Ruogu Lin | October 17, 2024 | 11am

Thesis defense for CPCB student Ruogu Lin on October 17, 2024
Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Thesis Defense: Monica Dayao | October 7, 2024 | 11am

Thesis defense for CPCB student Monica Dayao on October 7, 2024.
A Pitt student startup won the prestigious Hult Prize
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

A Pitt student startup won the prestigious Hult Prize

Korion Health, a startup led by Pitt students, has won the internationally prestigious Hult Prize.
Carl Kingsford Elected 2024 ISCB Fellow
Thursday, March 14, 2024

Carl Kingsford Elected 2024 ISCB Fellow

Carl Kingsford, Herbert A. Simon Professor of Computer Science in the Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department, has been elected as a Fellow of the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB).
Similar Genetic Elements Underlie Vocal Learning in Mammals
Monday, March 04, 2024

Similar Genetic Elements Underlie Vocal Learning in Mammals

The vocalizations of humans, bats, whales, seals and songbirds vastly differ from each other. Humans and birds, for example, are separated by some 300 million years of evolution. But scientists studying how these animals learn to "speak" have time and again seen surprising similarities in the connections in brain regions that support this vocal learning.
Logan and Pfenning Labs Publish in Nature Communications
Monday, February 19, 2024

Logan and Pfenning Labs Publish in Nature Communications

Researchers have identified molecular pathways associated with Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease in the brains of people with opioid use disorder.
CPCB Faculty and Students Win First Place in CACHE Challenge
Thursday, February 01, 2024

CPCB Faculty and Students Win First Place in CACHE Challenge

CPCB faculty David Koes and his (CPCB) student Ian Dunn shared first place in the CACHE challenge with CPCB faculty Olexandr Isayev and his (CPCB) student Filipp Gusev.
Nate Lord receives New Innovator Award
Thursday, November 02, 2023

Nate Lord receives New Innovator Award

Nate Lord, Phd, Receives New Innovator Award from NIH
Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis receives NIH Award
Thursday, November 02, 2023

Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis receives NIH Award

NIH Awards 2023 Transformative Research Grant to CSB’s Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, PhD & Co-PIs
Monica Dayao Receives Best Oral Presentation TransMed 2023 Award
Monday, August 14, 2023

Monica Dayao Receives Best Oral Presentation TransMed 2023 Award

Monica Dayao, Ph.D candidate in the Computational Biology Department at Carnegie Mellon University, received the “Best Oral Presentation” TransMed 2023 Award for her presentation at the 31st Annual Intelligent Systems For Molecular Biology (ISMB) and the 22nd Annual European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB).
CPCB’s own bioZone featured in Pitt Med magazine
Friday, August 04, 2023

CPCB’s own bioZone featured in Pitt Med magazine
CPCB students and faculty play major role in 3rd Nobel Turing Challenge Initiative Workshop
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

CPCB students and faculty play major role in 3rd Nobel Turing Challenge Initiative Workshop

Five CPCB faculty and four CPCB students presented talks or posters at the workshop on Automated Science held at Carnegie Mellon July 11-12.
MSTP Student Anna Li Named 2023 PD Soros Fellow
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

MSTP Student Anna Li Named 2023 PD Soros Fellow

Anna Li, a graduate student pursuing her M.D./Ph.D in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) sponsored jointly by Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh, was awarded the 2023 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship For New Americans.
Xu Lab Publishes in PNAS
Monday, April 10, 2023

Xu Lab Publishes in PNAS

The Xu lab has recently published their paper titled "High-throughput cryo-ET structural pattern mining by deep iterative unsupervised clustering" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
CPCB and Bio Ph.D. students co-first author paper accepted in Bioinformatics
Monday, October 31, 2022

CPCB and Bio Ph.D. students co-first author paper accepted in Bioinformatics

CPCB 2nd year student Huangqingbo (Paul) Sun and Biological Sciences Ph.D. student Xuecong Fu are co-first authors on the Murphy group paper "Improving and evaluating deep learning models of cellular organization"
CB Teaching Professor and MSAS Associate Director receives Teaching Innovation award
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

CB Teaching Professor and MSAS Associate Director receives Teaching Innovation award

Dr. Joshua Kangas, Assistant Teaching Professor in the Computational Biology Department, has been chosen to receive a Teaching Innovation Award for his development of innovative Laboratory Automation courses.
CPCB student Mostofa Uddin's work accepted by CVPR
Monday, March 21, 2022

CPCB student Mostofa Uddin's work accepted by CVPR

Mostofa Rafid Uddin, a second-year Ph.D. student in Dr. Min Xu’s lab, has had a first-authored paper accepted by the EEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), a top-ranked conference in computer science.
Tyler Lovelace awarded NIH NLM F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral National Research Service Award
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Tyler Lovelace awarded NIH NLM F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral National Research Service Award

Tyler Lovelace awarded NIH NLM F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral National Research Service Award to support his PhD word titled “Causal graphical methods for high-dimensional heterogeneous biomedical data”
Carl Kingsford Assumes co-Directorship of the Carnegie Mellon-University of Pittsburgh Computational Biology Ph.D. Program
Monday, February 07, 2022

Carl Kingsford Assumes co-Directorship of the Carnegie Mellon-University of Pittsburgh Computational Biology Ph.D. Program

Carl Kingsford, the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Computer Science in the Computational Biology Department, has assumed the co-directorship of the Carnegie Mellon-University of Pittsburgh Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology (CPCB).
Dr. Carvunis and lab receive NSF CAREER award
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Dr. Carvunis and lab receive NSF CAREER award

Dr. Carvunis and lab receive the National Science Foundation CAREER award to study how the widespread translation of evolutionary novel sequences impacts physiology and fitness in yeast.
Machine Learning Offers High-Definition Glimpse of How Genomes Organize in Single Cells
Monday, October 11, 2021

Machine Learning Offers High-Definition Glimpse of How Genomes Organize in Single Cells

Despite the potential impact these bundles have on human health, science knows little about how genome folding happens in the cell nucleus and how that influences the way genes are expressed. But a new algorithm developed by a team in Carnegie Mellon University's Computational Biology Department offers a powerful tool for illustrating the process at an unprecedented resolution.
Support CPCB-based Science Communication channel bioZone in YouTube contest
Thursday, August 05, 2021

Support CPCB-based Science Communication channel bioZone in YouTube contest

The popular YouTube channel, Veritasium, is hosting a Science Communication contest, and your favorite CPCB-based scicomm channel bioZone is taking part!
Shi Lab publish in Nature Communications
Thursday, August 05, 2021

Shi Lab publish in Nature Communications

Potent neutralizing nanobodies resist convergent circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2 by targeting diverse and conserved epitopes
Benos Lab awarded NIH R01 Grants
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Benos Lab awarded NIH R01 Grants

Takis Benos and colleagues receive a grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to identify and study novel subtypes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Lee Lab Publishes in Science Advances
Monday, July 26, 2021

Lee Lab Publishes in Science Advances

A myriad of inflammatory cytokines regulate signaling pathways to maintain cellular homeostasis.
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program offers awards to Caroline Larkin, April Rich and Gaby Gerlach
Tuesday, March 23, 2021

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program offers awards to Caroline Larkin, April Rich and Gaby Gerlach

The 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) has offered awards to Caroline Larkin (Faeder/Shoemaker Labs) and April Rich (Carvunis Lab), while Gaby Gerlach (Camacho Lab) has received an honorable mention.
Samantha Furman awarded NIH NCI fellowship
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Samantha Furman awarded NIH NCI fellowship

Samantha Furman awarded NIH NCI F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral National Research Service Award to support her PhD work titled “Quantifying heterocellular communication and spatial intratumoral heterogeneity from high dimensional spatial proteomics data”
Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis selected as a 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis selected as a 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow

Congratulations to Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis on being selected as a 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
Robin E.C. Lee Named Sloan Foundation Research Fellow
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.
BaDoi Phan Awarded NIH NIDA Grant
Monday, February 08, 2021

BaDoi Phan Awarded NIH NIDA Grant

With this fellowship grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, BaDoi will investigate how genetic differences in humans could influence sets of brain cell types shared across human, monkey, and rodents by conducting cutting edge single cell genomic experiments and analyzing the results by adapting new machine learning methods.
SCS Cancer Research Fellowships Awarded to Yutong Qiu and Trevor Frisby
Wednesday, February 03, 2021

SCS Cancer Research Fellowships Awarded to Yutong Qiu and Trevor Frisby

The Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science awarded one-year Cancer Research Fellowships to Yutong Qiu and Trevor Frisby in support of work toward their Ph.D. dissertations in the area of computational cancer biology.
CPCB Students April Rich, Dante Poe and Marissa Di Create Biology YouTube Channel
Friday, January 08, 2021

CPCB Students April Rich, Dante Poe and Marissa Di Create Biology YouTube Channel

CPCB Students create a Biology Youtube channel to fill the gap for intermediate students
Open Q&A with Director Dr. James Faeder
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.
Ask the Professor: Applying for a Ph.D. program with Dr. Oana Carja
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.
CPCB Student among Rising Stars 2019
Thursday, November 14, 2019

CPCB Student among Rising Stars 2019

Yang Yang, a Ph.D. student in Jian Ma‘s lab, was recognized during Rising Stars 2019, an intensive workshop for women graduate students who are pursuing careers in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering.
Neural Network Fills In Data Gaps for Spatial Analysis of Chromosomes
Friday, November 08, 2019

Neural Network Fills In Data Gaps for Spatial Analysis of Chromosomes

Computational methods used to fill in missing pixels in low-quality images or video also can help scientists provide missing information for how DNA is organized in the cell.
Protogenes featured in Science and Nature articles
Friday, October 25, 2019

Protogenes featured in Science and Nature articles

Dr. Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis was recently featured in Nature and Science magazine articles which highlighted her work on de novo gene birth.
Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis wins NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Monday, October 14, 2019

Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis wins NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

Research in the Carvunis laboratory combines evolutionary and systems approaches to decipher the molecular mechanism of change and innovation in biology, with a focus on the emergence of novel genes.
CompBio’s Mohimani Goes Big To Find New Antibiotics
Thursday, October 03, 2019

CompBio’s Mohimani Goes Big To Find New Antibiotics

Hosein Mohimani has a knack for finding ever-faster ways of searching giant databases for potential therapeutic drugs. Now, the computer scientist is trying a new approach in which the size of the databases isn’t something to be conquered, but a feature he uses to his advantage.
Benos Lab Receives U01 Research Grant from NIH
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Benos Lab Receives U01 Research Grant from NIH

Takis Benos, Professor and Vice Chair at the Department of Computational and Systems Biology, and his collaborators were awarded a U01 research grant to study changes occurring in healthy lungs as they age.
CPCB Welcomes our new Ph.D. students
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

CPCB Welcomes our new Ph.D. students

We’re excited to welcome another amazing group of incoming students to the CPCB program.
Second-Year Computational Biology Ph.D. Student Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Friday, April 12, 2019

Second-Year Computational Biology Ph.D. Student Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Laura Tung, a second-year Computational Biology Ph.D. student in Prof. Carl Kingsford’s group, has been chosen to receive a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.
New Method Identifies Which Asthma Patients Respond to Systemic Corticosteroids
Thursday, February 21, 2019

New Method Identifies Which Asthma Patients Respond to Systemic Corticosteroids

Physicians will be able to predict which of their patients with severe asthma are likely to benefit from treatment with systemic corticosteroids — and which might only suffer their side effects — with help from a dozen clinical variables researchers have identified using machine learning techniques.
Ali Saglam and Lillian Chong Presented Protein-protein Binding Pathway using Fully-continuous, Explicit-solvent Simulations
Thursday, February 21, 2019

Ali Saglam and Lillian Chong Presented Protein-protein Binding Pathway using Fully-continuous, Explicit-solvent Simulations

The latest study by Lillian Chong and Ali Saglam, a postdoc in the Faeder Lab, demonstrated the power of the weighted ensemble (WE) strategy in enabling explicit-solvent MD simulation of a protein–protein binding process.
Dr. Mohimani Among Those to Receive Sloan Research Fellowships
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Dr. Mohimani Among Those to Receive Sloan Research Fellowships

Hosein Mohimani, assistant professor in the Computational Biology Department, and Bernhard Haeupler, assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Department, are among 126 recipients of 2019 Sloan Research Fellowships, which honor early career scholars whose achievements put them among the very best scientific minds working today.
Paper on Influenza Virion Assembly Grabs Cover of PLoS Computational Biology
Thursday, February 07, 2019

Paper on Influenza Virion Assembly Grabs Cover of PLoS Computational Biology
Neural Nets Supplant Marker Genes in Analyzing Single Cell RNA Sequencing
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Neural Nets Supplant Marker Genes in Analyzing Single Cell RNA Sequencing

Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University say neural networks and supervised machine learning techniques can efficiently characterize cells that have been studied using single cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq). This finding could help researchers identify new cellsubtypes and differentiate between healthy and diseased cells.
Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, PhD Receives 2018 Trailblazer Award
Monday, September 10, 2018

Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, PhD Receives 2018 Trailblazer Award
CPCB’s Biggest Incoming Class Starts Their First Day of Classes
Monday, August 27, 2018

CPCB’s Biggest Incoming Class Starts Their First Day of Classes

A total of 21 students have joined the program
Dr. Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis named 2018 SEARLE Scholar
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Dr. Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis named 2018 SEARLE Scholar

Dr. Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis named 2018 SEARLE Scholar
New Carnegie Mellon Dynamic Statistical Model Follows Gene Expressions Over Time
Tuesday, February 06, 2018

New Carnegie Mellon Dynamic Statistical Model Follows Gene Expressions Over Time

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new dynamic statistical model to visualize changing patterns in networks, including gene expression during developmental periods of the brain.
First Year PhD student has first-authored paper accepted
Thursday, January 11, 2018

First Year PhD student has first-authored paper accepted

Xiangrui Zeng's first-authored paper detailing the outcome of this project title “A convolutional autoencoder approach for mining features in cellular electron cryo-tomograms and weakly supervised coarse segmentation” has been accepted by Journal of Structural Biology.
Jocelyn Sunseri Selected as Recipient of 2018 Phase-I MolSSI Software Fellowship
Friday, December 01, 2017

Jocelyn Sunseri Selected as Recipient of 2018 Phase-I MolSSI Software Fellowship

Jocelyn Sunseri was selected as one of only 11 recipients of the 2018 Phase-I MolSSI Software Fellowship.
Raghav Partha and the Clark and Chikina labs publish in eLife
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Raghav Partha and the Clark and Chikina labs publish in eLife

Subterranean mammals show convergent regression in ocular genes and enhancers, along with adaptation to tunneling
MMBioS Center Renewed Five More Years
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

MMBioS Center Renewed Five More Years

The Biomedical Technology and Research Resource (BTRR) on High Performance Computing for Multiscale Modeling of Biological Systems (MMBioS) was renewed for 5 years by NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS).
Luong Nguyen Successfully Defends
Thursday, August 10, 2017

Luong Nguyen Successfully Defends

Luong, from the Chennubhotla and Taylor labs, successfully defended her thesis titled: “Computational Pathology for Quantifying Spatial Heterogeneity in Transmitted Light and Immunofluorescence Digital Images Obtained from Tissue Sections of Solid Tumors.”
Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover

New Yorker article details how Pittsburgh has revitalized itself and become a tech hub in the US.
Luong Nguyen et al. publish in IEEE Transaction in Medical Imaging
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Luong Nguyen et al. publish in IEEE Transaction in Medical Imaging

Luong Nguyen et al. publish in IEEE Transaction in Medical Imaging
Pabon and Camacho Publish in eLIFE
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Pabon and Camacho Publish in eLIFE

Pabon and Camacho Publish in eLIFE
Takis and Collaborators Receive U01 Grant
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Takis and Collaborators Receive U01 Grant

The team will investigate the mechanism, pathology and pathophysiology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) facilitation and progression by analyzing existing TOPMed clinical and omics datasets
Natalie Sauerwald and She Zhang Publish Work on Chromosomal Dynamics using the GNM
Monday, March 20, 2017

Natalie Sauerwald and She Zhang Publish Work on Chromosomal Dynamics using the GNM

The GNM analysis permits us to predict chromatin mobility profile, identify hierarchical structural domains, and discover cross-correlated distal domains (CCDDs).
Pfenning’s lab awarded CIRCUITS Grant
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Pfenning’s lab awarded CIRCUITS Grant

Dr. Andreas Pfenning’s lab will be one of 9 labs to collaborate via the Collaboration to Infer Regulatory Circuits and to Uncover Innovative Therapeutic Strategies (CIRCUITS) two-year, $4 million Cure Alzheimer’s Fund grant
Jianhua Xing and collaborator receive pilot award
Friday, January 06, 2017

Jianhua Xing and collaborator receive pilot award

Dr. Jianhua Xing and his collaborator Dr. Youhua Liu (Department of Pathology) received a CTSI Biomedical Modeling Pilot Award.
Robin E. C. Lee Awarded Outstanding Investigator
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Robin E. C. Lee Awarded Outstanding Investigator

Dr. Lee’s grant proposal entitled “Deciphering dynamic signals in control of cell fate decisions” has been selected to receive an R35 Outstanding Investigator ‘MIRA’ award from the NIGMS.
Congrats to our new alumnus, Dr. Jose Juan Tapia-Valenzuela
Monday, August 01, 2016

Congrats to our new alumnus, Dr. Jose Juan Tapia-Valenzuela

Jose Juan Tapia-Valenzuela successfully defended his dissertation, “A study on systems modeling frameworks and their Interoperability”
Congratulations, Dr. Robert Sheehan!
Monday, August 01, 2016

Congratulations, Dr. Robert Sheehan!

Bobby Sheehan successfully defended his dissertation, “Closing the loop: A combined computational modeling and experimental approach provides novel insights into immune cell signaling systems and their global effects.”
Congratulations to Dr. Andrew J Sedgewick, CPCB’s newest Ph.D. Alumnus
Thursday, July 07, 2016

Congratulations to Dr. Andrew J Sedgewick, CPCB’s newest Ph.D. Alumnus

AJ Sedgewick successfully defended his thesis, “Graphical models for de novo and pathway-based network prediction over multi-modal high-throughput biological data” on June 29, 2016
Congratulations to Dr. David Farrow, CPCB’s newest Ph.D. Alum
Tuesday, July 05, 2016

Congratulations to Dr. David Farrow, CPCB’s newest Ph.D. Alum

Dr. David Farrow successfully defended his thesis, “Modeling the Past, Present, and Future of Influenza” on June 23, 2016.
Murphy receives grant from new international collaboration program
Friday, June 17, 2016

Murphy receives grant from new international collaboration program

CPCB Founding Director Bob Murphy and his collaborator Christoph Wülfing from the University of Bristol have just received grants from a new program encouraging collaboration between U.S. and U.K. investigators.
Congratulations to newly-minted Ph.D., Dr. Rory Donovan!
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Congratulations to newly-minted Ph.D., Dr. Rory Donovan!

Congratulations to Dr. Rory Donovan, who successfully defended his thesis, “Efficient Sampling in Stochastic Biological Models” on May 31.
Study of dynamics of T cell signaling published in Science Signaling
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Study of dynamics of T cell signaling published in Science Signaling

CPCB alum Dr. Taraz Buck and current CPCB student Xiongtao Ruan, were co-first authors of a collaboration between Carnegie Mellon and the University of Bristol resulting in a major recent paper in Science Signaling.
CPCB group’s robotically driven experimentation system could reduce the cost of discovering drug and target interactions
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

CPCB group’s robotically driven experimentation system could reduce the cost of discovering drug and target interactions

A group of CPCB researchers have created the first robotically driven experimentation system to determine the effects of a large number of drugs on many proteins, reducing the number of necessary experiments by 70%.
Koes and Sunseri published in Nucleic Acids Research
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Koes and Sunseri published in Nucleic Acids Research

Dr. David Koes and Jocelyn Sunseri published a paper in Nucleic Acids Research
Zuckerman selected as the 2015-2016 Distinguished Mentor in the Pitt School of Medicine
Friday, November 06, 2015

Zuckerman selected as the 2015-2016 Distinguished Mentor in the Pitt School of Medicine

Congratulations to Dr. Daniel M. Zuckerman for being selected at the 2015-2016 Distinguished Mentor in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Solomon awarded Richard King Mellon Foundation Presidential Fellowship in the Life Sciences
Monday, September 14, 2015

Solomon awarded Richard King Mellon Foundation Presidential Fellowship in the Life Sciences

CPCB student Brad Solomon has been awarded a Richard King Mellon Foundation Presidential Fellowship in the Life Sciences by Carnegie Mellon University
Clark Lab featured in PittMed Magazine
Friday, September 11, 2015

Clark Lab featured in PittMed Magazine

Nathan Clark and his lab are looking at connections between what we think of as different diseases and how these connections can help lead to innovations in treatment of those diseases.
Murphy and Faeder organize NIMBioS Working Group for Spatial Cell Simulation
Friday, September 04, 2015

Murphy and Faeder organize NIMBioS Working Group for Spatial Cell Simulation

The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis has announced support for a working group on Spatial Cell Simulation based on a proposal by Bob Murphy and Jim Faeder, both of whom are project leaders in the National Center for Multiscale Modeling of Biological Systems.
Kostka receives R01 grant
Friday, August 21, 2015

Kostka receives R01 grant

Dr. Dennis Kostka and Dr. Tony Capra (Vanderbilt University) received an NIH R01 grant for 1.1M over 3 years.
Chennubhotla receives NSF grant with Quinn
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Chennubhotla receives NSF grant with Quinn

Dr. Chakra Chennubhotla received an NSF grant for $768K. He will be working with Dr. Frederick Quinn and his former graduate student, Dr. Shannon Quinn.
Benos and Kaminski awarded NIH R01 grant
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Benos and Kaminski awarded NIH R01 grant

Drs. Takis Benos (Pitt) and Naftali Kaminski (Yale) were awarded by NIH 2.9M over four years to perform genomic analysis to study the tissue and cellular heterogeneity in IPF.
Quinn and Chennubhotla published in Science Translational Medicine
Monday, August 10, 2015

Quinn and Chennubhotla published in Science Translational Medicine

Science Translational Medicine, has published research from one of our Pitt faculty, Dr. Chakra Chennubhotla, and his former graduate student, Dr. Shannon Quinn.
Prof. Benos (Pitt) and Glymour (CMU) are awarded $1.3M from NIH to develop new causal modeling algorithms for big, multi-modal data
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Prof. Benos (Pitt) and Glymour (CMU) are awarded $1.3M from NIH to develop new causal modeling algorithms for big, multi-modal data

Prof. Benos, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, in collaboration with Prof. Glymour, Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, has been awarded $1.3M from the National Institutes of Health
Ph.D. Student, Nick Pabon, Receives Two Fellowships
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Ph.D. Student, Nick Pabon, Receives Two Fellowships

Second-year CPCB student Nicolas Pabon was awarded two fellowships
Wells selected to give platform talk at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Wells selected to give platform talk at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society

Marta Wells, a current T32 trainee in the CPCB program, was selected to give a platform talk on February 10th at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society in Baltimore, Maryland.
Congratulations to Drs. Chowdhury, Kumar, and Sullivan
Monday, February 09, 2015

Congratulations to Drs. Chowdhury, Kumar, and Sullivan

Salim Chowdhury, Aparna Kumar, and Devin Sullivan successfully defend their theses.
Camacho and Baumgartner win CSAR Competition
Friday, January 23, 2015

Camacho and Baumgartner win CSAR Competition

Professor Carlos J. Camacho and graduate student Matthew Baumgartner, of University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Computational and Systems Biology, used a number of in-house computational methods to solve the five challenges.
Spring 2015 Course – Molecular Evolution
Friday, December 12, 2014

Spring 2015 Course – Molecular Evolution

Description of Molecular Evolution Course Spring 2015
Kumar et al identify potential cancer biomarkers via image analysis
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Kumar et al identify potential cancer biomarkers via image analysis

Aparna Kumar was first author on a paper published today in the U.S. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Chennubhotla – BGSA Distinguished Mentor Finalist
Monday, November 03, 2014

Chennubhotla – BGSA Distinguished Mentor Finalist

In January 2003, BGSA students implemented an award to recognize faculty who exemplify the very best in mentoring medical school graduate students.
Prof. Kathryn Roeder Helps Autism Sequencing Consortium Identify 33 Genes That Contribute to Autism Risk
Thursday, October 30, 2014

Prof. Kathryn Roeder Helps Autism Sequencing Consortium Identify 33 Genes That Contribute to Autism Risk

The list of genes identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by deep DNA sequencing has expanded from nine to 33, according to a new study by an international research team led by the Autism Sequencing Consortium (ASC), including CMU’s Kathryn Roeder.
Kingsford receives Moore Foundation “Big Data Grant for Biomedical Sequence Analysis”
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Kingsford receives Moore Foundation “Big Data Grant for Biomedical Sequence Analysis”

CPCB Training Faculty member Carl Kingsford has been selected as one of 14 recipients of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s “Moore Investigators in Data Discovery” awards.
The NIH has awarded Pitt an $11 million grant to lead a Big Data to Knowledge Center of Excellence
Thursday, October 16, 2014

The NIH has awarded Pitt an $11 million grant to lead a Big Data to Knowledge Center of Excellence

“The National Institutes of Health has awarded the University of Pittsburgh an $11 million, four-year grant to lead a Big Data to Knowledge Center of Excellence, an initiative that will help scientists capitalize more fully on large amounts of available data and to make data science a more prominent component of biomedical research.”
CPCB Graduate, Joshua Kangas, launches company
Thursday, September 18, 2014

CPCB Graduate, Joshua Kangas, launches company

Joshua Kangas partnered with Robert Murphy, Scott Bodine, and Geoffrey Hoare to found Quantitative Medicine
STIR Predoctoral Grant Competition - Fully Funded
Friday, September 12, 2014

STIR Predoctoral Grant Competition - Fully Funded

Devin Sullivan and Shannon Quinn get pilot project fully funded.
Congrats to our recent graduates!
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Congrats to our recent graduates!
CPCB Featured in the Scientist
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

CPCB Featured in the Scientist

The article spoke of the new interdisciplinary environments being created by today’s big data sets generated by high-throughput sequencing and large-scale proteomic screens.
Dr. Chennubhotla receives mentoring award
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Dr. Chennubhotla receives mentoring award

Dr. Chakra Chennubhotla was selected to receive a Medical Student Research Mentoring Merit Award.
Zuckerman, Chong, and Faeder awarded R01 grant
Wednesday, July 19, 0215

Zuckerman, Chong, and Faeder awarded R01 grant

Dr. Daniel Zuckerman (PI), Dr. Lillian Chong (PI) and Dr. James Faeder (Co-I) were awarded an NIH R01 grant for $1.3 million over 4 years.
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