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The Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department seeks to expand our understanding of complex biological systems. Proud department of @SCSatCMU.

Pittsburgh, PA
Joined September 2014
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Jian Ma has joined the CZ Biohub Chicago Scientific Advisory Board Read more: tinyurl.com/nhccpatd
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Pfenning, Yartsev Labs and PSC win annual reader's choice award from HPCwire! Read more: tinyurl.com/3xn483wf
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Recent BSCB graduate Ruby Redlich received a first author credit in Molecular Biology and Evolution for expanding a tool to analyze evolutionary biology traits Read more: tinyurl.com/46x73t3y
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A spooky time was had by all during the Department's annual trip to Kennywood for Fall Fest & Fright Night!
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CMU launches center for AI-Driven Biomedical Research based in the Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department Learn more about AI4Bio here: tinyurl.com/nzpdvecd
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Welcome to current and new members of the Ray & Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department! Click here to read a welcome message from Department Head Russell Schwartz: tinyurl.com/5c7vnw7f
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Grad students used AI to examine health care data from Regional Autonomous Patient Safety initiative to look for patterns to detect drug interactions. RAPS is a part of CMU's Center for Innovation in Health, led by @cmucompbio faculty Carl Kingsford bit.ly/49MKTBW
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The vocalizations of humans, bats, whales, seals and songbirds vastly differ from each other. But researchers in the Pfenning lab and at UC Berkeley have found parts of the genome that have evolved and are associated with vocal learning across mammals. cbd.cmu.edu/news/2024/simila…
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In the pursuit of new treatments, researchers in the Pfenning lab and their collaborators have identified molecular pathways associated with Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease in the brains of people with opioid use disorder. cbd.cmu.edu/news/2024/logan-…
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Researchers in the Mohimani lab have developed a fundamental algorithm that can process larger quantities of mass spectrometry data in the study of small molecules, known as metabolomics, in a fraction of the time needed for more traditional methods. cbd.cmu.edu/news/2024/mohima…
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Final Reminder: The application deadline for CPCB, MSAS and MSCB is today, Wednesday, December 13th, 2023 by 3:00 pm, EST. Applications are not considered "submitted" until the application fee is paid. Additional information can be found here: cbd.cmu.edu/education/index.…
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The EARLY application deadline (at reduced cost) for CPCB, MSAS and MSCB is TODAY - November 29th by 3:00 pm, EST. Letters of recommendation are not due until the final December 13, 2023 application deadline. Please visit the website for more information: cbd.cmu.edu/education/index.…
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Getting to know our new faculty--first up is Martin Jinye Zhang! cbd.cmu.edu/news/2023/new-fa…
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Congratulations to Min Xu (@xumin100) on receiving an @NSF CAREER award to develop computational methods for integrating two imaging techniques used to visualize microscopic objects inside cells. cs.cmu.edu/news/2023/nsf-car…
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Congratulations to Monica Dayao for receiving the “Best Oral Presentation” TransMed 2023 Award for her presentation at the 31st Annual Intelligent Systems For Molecular Biology (ISMB) and the 22nd Annual European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB). cbd.cmu.edu/news/2023/monica…
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