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In addition to his UMIACS appointment, he will be the first Brendan Iribe Endowed Professor in Computer Science.

Junior computer science major Ipsa Mittra presents research at SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference.

He will use the funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to improve upon a “constellation” of inter-related tools his lab has developed to process genomic data.

Professor Michael Cummings and others will analyze the synthetic process that goes into manufacturing antisense oligonucleotides—small pieces of DNA or RNA that can bind to specific molecules of RNA.

The 10 undergraduate students are part of an internship funded by NSF and run by faculty in CBCB.

He will continue to lead the highly successful multidisciplinary center, which is ranked fourth in the nation for bioinformatics and computational biology.

Hall has been awarded funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a wearable device that will potentially lead to therapeutic interventions for patients suffering from gastrointestinal disorders like Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Rita Colwell’s distinguished career culminates in project predicting and preventing cholera.

The $2.7M award will be spread across four years, supporting his team’s ongoing work that uses machine learning techniques to interpret “multiomics” data.

Adam Phillippy and Michael Schatz are being recognized for their leadership in completing the first full sequence of the human genome.