October 3, 2017
DCMB Student Awards Announced at 2017 Annual Department Retreat
Congratulations Peter Orchard & Shweta Ramdas!
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August 29, 2017
Congratulations to Prof. Olivier Jolliet and Vy Nguyen, Ph.D. candidate!
Prof. Olivier Jolliet and Bioinformatics Ph.D. candidate, Vy Nguyen, have recently been awarded a grant from the University of Michigan Center for Occupational Health and Safety Engineering for their proposal, “Biomarker Based Occupational Exposome”.
August 10, 2017
New publication “The 4D Nucleome” by Thomas Reid & Indika Rajapakse published in July 2017 Methods.
The 4D Nucleome (4DN) refers to the dynamical relationships among nuclear structures, the transcriptional landscapes, and cellular phenotypes.
August 9, 2017
Michigan Medicine hospitals ranked No. 6 in nation by U.S. News & World Report
Ranked No. 1 in Michigan and No. 6 in the country, Michigan Medicine's adult hospitals were recognized among the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for 2017-18.
August 3, 2017
Santiago Shnell, D.Phil., appointed interim chair of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Schnell will assume leadership of the department while a national search is conducted for a permanent chair.
June 22, 2017
"A Car to Detect Heart Attacks"
BBC program Click hears from Kayvan Najarian, Ph.D. about moving towards technology that can monitor the health of someone driving a car to predict if they are going to have a heart attack.
June 21, 2017
Congratulations to Negar, a recipient of the 2017-2018 MICDE Fellowship!
Negar Farzenah, Ph.D. student in the Bioinformatics Program, pursues research in the lab of Prof. Kayvan Najarian . She was recently awarded a 2017-2018 Michigan
June 21, 2017
Congratulations to Laura Seaman who was awarded Best Contributed Speaker at NetSci 2017!
Laura Seaman, Ph.D. candidate in Bioinformatics, recently received the Best Contributed Speaker Award at NetSci 2017 for her presentation “The 4D Nucleome of Cancer”.
June 5, 2017
Bioinformatics student Wei Zhou (mentor: Cristen Willer) was awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association
Her reviews put her application in the top <1%!
May 18, 2017
For the first time, researchers connected two different types of DNA snippets to identify individuals. This could help researchers across many fields — but isn’t without risk.
"(DNA) record matching across different databases is a medical care issue as well as a privacy issue." - Jun Z. Li, Ph.D.
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April 18, 2017
Andy Kong's published manuscript now in Nature Methods (#1 journal in the category Biochemical Research Methods)
Andy Kong (Ph.D. student in Bioinformatics, Nesvizhskii lab) is the first author of a manuscript “MSFragger: ultrafast and comprehensive peptide identification in mass spectrometry–based proteomics”
April 14, 2017
Dr. Alan Boyle receives an NSF Career Award
The National Science Foundation has awarded Dr. Alan Boyle with a Career Award for the project titled, "Conservation of cohesin-containing cis regulatory modules in the human and mouse lineages."
March 30, 2017
Dr. Indika Rajapakse Receives EBS Teaching Award
Indika Rajapakse, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, was among nine recipients of the 2016 U-M Endowment for Basic Sciences Teaching Award.
March 1, 2017
Wei Zhou awarded Rackham Graduate School Predoctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to Wei Zhou, Ph.D. candidate!
February 14, 2017
Diabetes in your DNA? Scientists zero in on the genetic signature of risk
Many different mutations linked to Type 2 diabetes all occur in key stretches of active DNA within pancreatic islet cells, interfering with the activity of a master regulator
February 2, 2017
Over $2 million in funding announced for biomedical innovations across the State of Michigan
MTRAC for Life Sciences Innovation Hub, based at U-M Medical School, awards annual funding to 11 project teams.
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