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Yesterday at our Spring Grad Research Symposium, senior grad students Ananya Pavuluri and Ria Vinod gave presentations on their graduate research. It was great to gather our community to learn about their innovative computational biology projects!
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Upcoming Comp Bio Undergrad Events: Comp Bio Welcome Back Event Thursday, 1/29 6:30 - 8:30pm Faunce Memorial Room/Student Center Room 229 DUG E-Board Application forms.gle/n9FhLGRhXB1vx1fcA Due February 1st
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Congrats to Comp Bio students Avery Maytin (undergrad) and Jessy Patricoski (PhD) from Ece Uzun's lab who recently had their work recognized at the AMIA Annual Symposium! Avery received a Distinguished Poster Award, and Jessy's paper was featured in the Year-In-Review!
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CCMB is pleased to announce Julian Stamp's PhD defense on Monday, December 1st @ 1pm, entitled "Statistical and Computational Advances for Detecting Nonlinear Contributions to Complex Traits". Advisors: Lorin Crawford, PhD and Daniel Weinreich, PhD events.brown.edu/ccmb/event/…

CCMB Ph.D. Dissertation Defense: Julian Stamp

“Statistical and Computational Advances for Detecting Nonlinear Contributions to Complex Traits” Advisors: Lorin Crawford, Ph.D. and Daniel...

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In a recent @BostonGlobe op-ed, @s_ramach and C. Brandon Ogbunu discuss what James Watson got wrong about DNA, and how the science that he helped pioneer undermines his view that genes determine everything about us. bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o…

What James Watson got wrong about DNA - The Boston Globe

The science he helped pioneer consistently undermines his view that genes determine everything about us.

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Congrats to Chib Nwizu for successfully defending his PhD dissertation last week on "Probabilistic Characterization of Transcriptomic States in Single-Cell Data"! 🥳 Chib will soon be returning to med school to complete his MD/PhD!
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It is a longstanding tradition at CCMB that our grad students receive a commemorative mug for their first first-author paper! Last week, Cecile Meier-Scherling received her publication mug for her paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4011…
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6 Oct 2025
Emilia Huerta-Sánchez, Director of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology @BrownCCMB at DSI and Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, combines evolutionary theory with large genomic data to study human evolutionary biology. dsi.brown.edu/news/2025-10-0…

Faces of DSI: Emilia Huerta-Sánchez

Emilia Huerta-Sánchez, Director of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB) at DSI and Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, combines evolutionary theory with large...

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During CCMB's Fall 2025 Graduate Research Symposium this week, four of our PhD students gave presentations on their current research projects to fellow students and CCMB faculty! ccmb.brown.edu/news/2025-10-… Cecile Meier-Scherling Leah Darwin Jazeps Medina Tretmanis Tuan Pham
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CCMB Faculty Member Ritambhara Singh was recently awarded an NSF CAREER Grant for her research on “Integrating Heterogenous Health Data for Improved Predictive and Explainable Methods.” 🥳 Congrats Ritambhara! ccmb.brown.edu/news/2025-07-…
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CCMB graduate student Cecile Meier-Scherling is tackling the computational challenges of drug-resistant malaria with the one of the world’s fastest supercomputers after receiving the Frontera Computational Science Fellowship. Read more on CCMB News: ccmb.brown.edu/news/2025-07-…
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New paper from one of our grad students and faculty! 🥳
Lorin Crawford@lorin_crawford
9 Jun 2025
So awesome to see this finally out—huge congrats to all the authors! If interested, we covered the highlights in a recent News & Views piece in @NatureCVR (s/o to Julian Stamp for jumping in as co-author) 🔗 rdcu.be/epxFW
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Congrats to CCMB PhD student Whitney Sloneker for passing her quals yesterday! 🥳
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Join CCMB for our Comp Bio seminar today @ 4pm with Shoba Vasudevan, "Targeting post-transcriptional mechanisms of tumor persistence." events.brown.edu/ccmb/event/…
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Exciting news: CCMB PhD student Shevaughn Holness is one of 3 Brown students awarded funding from the @NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship Program to continue her work on population genetics. @BrownUResearch ccmb.brown.edu/news/2025-04-…

Computational Biology graduate student Shevaughn Holness awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

CCMB PhD student Shevaughn Holness is one of 3 Brown students awarded funding from the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program to continue her work on population genetics.

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Join CCMB for a seminar with Shoba Vasudevan next Wednesday, 4pm at DSI! "Targeting post-transcriptional mechanisms of tumor persistence" events.brown.edu/ccmb/event/…
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Join CCMB for a seminar with @sr_sankararaman next Wednesday at 4pm! "Statistical models of archaic ancestry and complex trait architecture in humans" events.brown.edu/ccmb/event/…
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Skylar Walters, an undergraduate concentrator at CCMB, recently received the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship! Congratulations Skylar! @GoldwaterSC ccmb.brown.edu/news/2025-04-…
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Looking forward to these defenses from our CCMB grad students!
Brown Data Science Institute@Brown_DSI
3 Apr 2025
This spring, our DSI, CCMB, and CNTR faculty members have many PhD candidates defending their theses! Information and abstracts for each defense can be found at dsi.brown.edu/events Good luck to our graduating PhD students!
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Congrats to CCMB PhD student @MeierScherling on her first first-author paper! Cecile is a PhD student in Jeff Bailey's lab. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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