Category: News

Congratulations to Yin Sun on defending her thesis successfully and acquiring her MS degree from IOB!

Nibiao Zheng finishes his dissertation and graduates with a P.h. D from the Bioinformatics Institute in December 2013.

Yan Li successfully completed her dissertation and graduated in December of 2013.

Congratulations to Liang Feng for successfully defending her dissertation! Her dissertation is titled “Gene Pair Rearrangement during the Evolution of Flowering Plants.”

IOB first-year Ph.D. student Zheng Ruan was accepted for the Google Summer of Code 2013 program to work with the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). His project is titled “Codon Alignment and Analysis in Biopython” and he will be mentored by current Biopython developers Eric Talevich and Peter Cock. Congratulations Zheng!

Chi Zhang has been awarded the 2013 Innovative and Interdisciplinary Research Grant. This grant is part of a program established by the Graduate School to support innovation and interdisciplinarity in the research conducted by doctoral students. Congratulations Chi!

Congratulations to all of the symposium award winners! Duo Peng won the Outstanding Poster Award, and Ujwal Bagal won the Ying Xu Outstanding Student Paper Award.

IOB Director Jessica Kissinger and IOB and Mathematics assistant professor Juan Gutierriez are part of a malaria research center that was awarded up to $19.4 million by a recent NIH contract.  The malaria host-pathogen interaction center, MaHPIC, will study the systems biology of non-human primate, and human malaria.