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Congratulations to Jes Miller!
Bioinformatics Ph.D. student Jess Millar was inducted into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at the University of Michigan
Peter Freddolino Lab Publishes
“Polyphosphate drives bacterial heterochromatic formation,” Science Advances .
Congratulations on These Recent Funding Awards
Call for Nominations: BIDS-TP
The Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Training Program (BIDS-TP) will accept nominations in the upcoming months.
Call for Participation: Student DEI Journal Club
The Biostatistics Student DEI Collective will again be hosting DEI Journal Cub next semester, which will focus on reading and discussing articles related to DEIJ topics and issues.
Free COVID-19 Testing if You Are Asymptomatic
All U-M students, faculty and staff on the Ann Arbor campus who are asymptomatic, can take advantage of free COVID-19 testing. This link
Congratulations to Marci Brandenburg and Steve Guest
Congratulations are in order for Marci and Steve as recent recipients of the Endowment for the Basic Sciences' Awards. Marci was awarded the Research Staff Award and Steve was awarded the Teaching Award. Congratulations to you both!
CAPS Has Online Platform to Support Student Mental Health
The University of Michigan’s Counseling and Psychological Services is piloting a new mental health and well-being resource that allows students to receive and provide support anonymously through an online peer-to-peer community.
Jess Millar: Published in PLOS ONE
This study, published in PLOS ONE, was completed as part of the COVID-19 Dispersed Volunteer Research Network and was presented at the World Microbe Forum, a collaborative virtual meeting conference hosted by the American Society for Microbiology and the Federation of European Microbiological Societies, earlier this year.
Indika Rajapakse: Manuscript Accepted "In Principle" at iScience
The Rajapakse lab received good news last week when learning that their "Functional Organization of the Maternal and Paternal Human 4D Nucleome" article was accepted in principle as a research article at iScience.
Welch Lab Co-Authors on Three Papers in Nature and Nature Biotechnology
BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network—Motor Cortex Generating a multimodal cell census and atlas of primary motor cortex through collaborative data collection, tool development and analysis.

Maureen Sartor and Alla Karnovsky Co-PIs on NIH ALS Initiative
Multidisciplinary group of U-M researchers will investigate environmental exposures, chosen as one of the first projects in a new NIH amyotrophic lateral sclerosis initiative.
Develop Your Skills to Create a More Inclusive Environment for LGBTQIA+
In partnership with the Advisory Committee for the Advancement of LGBTQ Health at Michigan Medicine (ACALHM), the Office for Health Equity and Inclusion proudly presents to all Michigan Medicine staff, faculty, & learners LGBTQIA+ Awareness & Inclusion: An Introduction to Inclusive Language. This virtual workshop focuses on helping
CCMB Affiliate, H.V. Jagadish in the News
The Michigan Institute for Data Science is leading a multi-university partnership to develop a framework for a national institute that would enable research using sensitive data, while preventing its misuse and misinterpretation.
Faculty Position Openings (All Ranks) at DCMB
The Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics (DCMB) at the University of Michigan Medical School seeks outstanding applicants for tenure-track and tenured faculty
Conversation with Dr. Steve Smale and Dr. Lee Hartwell Indika Rajapakse
In an upcoming edition of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, DCMB's Indika Rajapakse interviews Drs. Steve Smale and Lee Hartwell .
Olivier Jolliet Publishes in Nature Food
CCMB faculty, Olivier Jolliet, cited in news about his new study on how to eat both healthy and sustainably – just in time for the start of the term! They evaluated 5800 foods for their health and
CCMB Seminar Series Kick-off!
September 8th kicks off our Fall CCMB Seminar Series!
DCMB & The Bioinformatics Graduate Program Welcomes 2020-21 Class!
Welcome to U-M - GO BLUE!