Akshay today successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, entitled “Computational modeling of sequence features driving transcription factor binding in neuronal programming”. He’s the first student to defend from our lab! Akshay has been highly successful during his graduate studies, with a co-first author paper in Cell Stem Cell, contributions to two other published articles, a first…
Tim Kunz, an undergraduate researcher in our lab since 2014, has won the Fred Wedler award for Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. Tim recently graduated with a B.Sc. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. His honors thesis is entitled “Visualizing and understanding chromatin organization using self-organizing maps”, and describes a new machine-learning approach to…
Dr. Guray Kuzu has joined our lab as a Postdoctoral Scholar. Guray was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow in a joint position with Michael Tolstorukov (Harvard Medical School) and Erica Larschan (Brown University). In this position he studied, amongst other things, chromatin accessibility and the function of the CLAMP proteins in Drosophila X chromosome dosage compensation.…
A pair of Penn State News articles have recently featured our collaboration with Dr. Frank Pugh’s lab to build an automated pipeline for processing ChIP-exo data. As described in a recent Huck Institutes News article, we have been working with the Pugh lab to build a system for processing and analyzing ChIP-exo sequencing datasets. This…
Divyanshi Srivastava, a graduate student in the MCIBS Bioinformatics & Genomics program, has joined our lab. Divyanshi has a BE in Computer Science, with an integrated MS in Biological Sciences from the Birla Institute of Technology, India. Her Master’s thesis was titled: ” Chromatin Mediated Antigenic Variation in Plasmodium falciparum“, and was carried out at the…
Lila Rieber has been awarded a 2016 Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation! This prestigiousfellowship will enable her to pursue thesis research that aims to characterize the three-dimensional organization of chromatin in high resolution. Congratulations, Lila!
Naomi Yamada and Lila Rieber have joined the lab. Both are members of the Bioinformatics & Genomics graduate program.
Akshay Kakumanu in our lab has been awarded a 2014 Dissertation Research Award from the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences: link Congratulations Akshay!