March 24, 2020
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March 13, 2020
The Center for Academic Innovation Offers Guidance for Remote Teaching
As U-M moves toward alternative formats for teaching in place of in-person courses for the rest of the semester, the Center for Academic Innovation has created a resource guide for teaching remotely.
March 11, 2020
Marcin Cieslik, Assistant Professor of Pathology & Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, Receives Award from Bristol-Myers Squibb
Congratulations Professor Marcin Cieslik!
March 9, 2020
Congratulations to Bioinformatics recipients of the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship!
Congratulations to both Louis Joslyn and Edison Ong, Ph.D. candidates and recipients of the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship !
March 2, 2020
Save-the-Date: July 13-15, 2020
DYNAMICS, TOPOLOGY, COMPLEXITY, AND BIOLOGY - A conference in honor of Professor Steve Smale
February 21, 2020
MIDAS Reproducibility Challenge
The first of its kind at U-M, the MIDAS Reproducibility Challenge aims to highlight high-quality, reproducible work at U-M by collecting examples of best practices across diverse fields.
January 24, 2020
Save-the-Date: September 14-16, 2020 MANA 2020
Second Annual Conference of the Metabolomics Association of North America
December 16, 2019
Jie Cao, 2nd year Bioinformatics Program Ph.D. student, received the Rackham International Students Fellowship
Congratulations to Jie Cao!
December 5, 2019
DCMB Faculty won two of the MIDAS - Propelling Original Data Science (PODS) grant awards
Congratulations to professors Arvind Rao and Reza Soroushmehr!
November 27, 2019
DCMB faculty members Brian Athey, Ph.D. and Jun Li, Ph.D. named 2019 AAAS fellows
The University of Michigan led the nation with 22 faculty members elected as 2019 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Congratulations professors Brian and Jun!
November 26, 2019
DCMB Faculty won two of the Precision Health's 2019 Investigators Awards
Congratulations to professors Maureen Sartor, Ryan Mills, Alan Boyle, and Arvind Rao!
November 26, 2019
Garmire Lab publishes article in Genome Biology
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) offers new opportunities to study gene expression of tens of thousands of single cells simultaneously. We present DeepImpute, a deep neural network-based imputation algorithm that uses dropout layers and loss functions to learn patterns in the data, allowing for accurate imputation.
November 26, 2019
Mills Lab publishes article in Nature Review Genetics
The Mills Lab review modern approaches for investigating structural variations (SV) and proffer that, moving forwards, studies integrating biological information with detection will be necessary to comprehensively understand the impact of SV in the human genome.
November 20, 2019
Josh Vo Named Bioinformatics Graduate Student Rep
On behalf of the Biomedical Graduate Student Government (BGSG), we would like to introduce Josh Vo the Bioinformatics Graduate Student Representative for the upcoming 2019-2020 school year.
October 4, 2019
Shariq Mohammed Receives 2019 UM Precision Health Scholars Awards
Congratulations, Shariq!
August 8, 2019
Michigan Drug Discovery Awards Mats Ljungman and Early-Stage Cancer Grant
Congratulations, Mats!
July 25, 2019
DCMB Professor, Yang Zhang, wins The 2020 DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences
Congratulations, Yang!
July 23, 2019
Negar Farzaneh Awarded NIH National Research Service Award (NRSA) Fellowship
Congratulations, Negar!
July 18, 2019
DCMB Associate Professor, Lana Garmire, Receives the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Congratulations, Lana!
July 2, 2019
Jenna Wiens Named New Precision Health Co-Director
Jenna Wiens, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering and CCMB affiliate faculty member, will become a Precision Health co-director, effective Sept. 1. Congratulations Jenna!