Robert Gregg, a postdoctoral fellow in our group, was awarded an NIH-NLM T15 Postdoctoral Scholarship from the Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. This is a recognition of the high-quality work of Robert in the field of computational biology and machine learning. Congratulations Robert!
Congratulations to Minxue for the acceptance of the paper he co-authored to Nature Communications. The paper is entitled “Myofibroblast transcriptome indicates SFRP2+ fibroblast progenitors in systemic sclerosis skin” and presents the results of single cell RNA-seq analysis, which indicate key events that transform fibroblasts to myofibroblasts. Congratulations Minxue!
Minxue successfully defended his thesis proposal. The title of his thesis is “Graphical methods for single sample network analysis with applications to aging and chronic lung diseases“. His thesis committee consists of Jianhua Xing (chair), Carl Kingsford (CMU), Yu-Chih Chen. Congratulations Minxue!
Congratulations to Vineet for the acceptance of his paper “Neurological Complications Acquired during Pediatric Critical Illness: Exploratory ‘Mixed Graphical Modeling’ Analysis using Serum Biomarker Levels” in the Pediatric Crit Care Med. This study investigates the factors affecting the development of neurological disorders in the ICU, using mixed graphical models. Congratulations Vineet! …
Daniel successfully defended his thesis proposal today. The title of his thesis is “Developing Computational Tools for Preventative Cancer Vaccines“. His thesis committee consisted of Dennis Kostka (chair), Dannie Durand (CMU), Olja Finn. Congratulations Daniel!