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06/2011 - Communications of the ACM featured a long article covering our work on biology-inspired networking and computing. The story discusses our recent MSB and Science papers which provide examples of bi-directional studies that attempts to understand biological systems while at the same time help improve networking and distributed computing algorithms.
05/2011 - Group member Marcel Schulz is the winner the 2010 Otto Hahn medal, awarded by the Max Planck Society to young scientists and researchers for outstanding scientific achievement. Marcel received the medal for his Ph.D. thesis carried out under the supervision of Prof. Martin Vingron, entitled "Data structures and algorithms for analysis of alternative splicing with RNA-seq data." 26 medals representing the top 3% of all Ph.D students from 2010 among the nearly eighty Max Planck Institutes were awarded this year. Marcel is a Lane follow in our group.
03/2011 - Henry (Tienho) Lin defends his thesis and earns a PhD degree! Henry joined the eScience Research Group at Microsoft Research as a postdoc.
01/2011 - In a new paper in the journal Science we have shown that by studying in details a biological process in the developing fruit fly we can develop a new distributed computing algorithms that improves upon current solutions to a problem that has been studied for almost three decades. The work has attracted considerable media attention. Here are some examples:
CMU release,
SCS release,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
Discovery news,
MIT Technology Review,
MSNBC,
Popular Science,
12/2010 - Work on orienting edges in biological interaction networks selected as a Featured Article by the editors of Nucleic Acids Research. According to the journals website: Featured articles represent the top 5% of papers in terms of originality, significance and scientific excellence. See also news on the Lane center website.
06/2009 - New research from our group solves a biological mystery. In a
paper published in the journal Nature Molecular and Systems
Biology we show that the disagreement between the results of two complementary experiments is due to backup in gene regulatory networks.
See the press release issued by CMU
05/2009 - A letter to Science regarding the delays in release of the NRC graduate rankings.
08/2008 - Yanjun Qi, Jason Ernst and Yong Lu defend their PhD thesis's! Yanjun joined NEC research focusing on machine learning
and computational biology. Jason is now a postdoc with Manolis Kellis at MIT and Yong is a postdoc with Fritz Roth at Harvard. See the People page for their new contact info and webpages.
05/2008 - Of the roughly 100 papers to be presented at this years ISMB 2008,
the largest and most selective computational biology conference, 4 are from our group.
These include two regular track papers (by Yanjun Qi and
Henry Lin) and two highlight track papers:
Our Genome Biology paper on the analysis of cycling genes in four species and our PNAS paper on human cycling genes.
01/2008 - A new paper we published in
PNAS about the set of cell cycle genes in healthy and cancer human cells attracted national
and local attention. The following are a few notable places reporting on our work:
CMU press release ,
US News and World Report , Forbes.com ,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
(front page story) ,
Channel 4 (local ABC affiliate).
9/2007 - Jason Ernst is awarded the
Siebel Scholarship. The Scholars Program recognizes the most talented
students who have demonstrated academic and leadership excellence at the world's leading graduate schools of business and computer
science.
7/2007 - Our paper
Reconstructing dynamic regulatory maps is selected as a highlight paper at
ISMB the largest and most selective computational biology conference. The paper and associated software
(DREM) have also received some nice
blog coverage during the conference.
9/2006 - Matlab releases the new Bioinformatics toolbox.
This toolbox includes a new function implementing the
optimal leaf ordering algorithm developed by our group.
1/2006 - Our new software, STEM: Short Time-series Expression Miner, is featured in:
CMU Tech Transfer Annual Report 2005 (page 14)
11/2005 - Our recent
Nature Biotechnology paper presenting a CheckSum method for determining the quality of time-series
expression profiles is featured in:
CMU press release ,
Pittsburgh Post Gazette ,
Drug Discovery & Development ,
Bio-IT World,
Red Herring
10/2005 - We are part of the new NIH funded Center for Modeling Pulmonary Immunity:
University of Pittsburgh press release, Pittsburgh Post Gazette
7/2005 - Ziv Bar-Joseph receives NSF CAREER award
11/2004 - Yanjun Qi wins Merck Graduate Fellowship for 2004-2005
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