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Fareeda Abu-Juam
👏 Congratulations to PhD student Fareeda Abu-Juam, who has been selected to receive an ACM SIGHPC Computational & Data Science Fellowship!
This award recognizes potential research contributions in computational science or data science and leadership capabilities.
✨ That's a wrap on TECBio 2025!
Thank you to the amazing undergraduate students who spent 10 weeks at Pitt engaging in graduate-level research in computational biology.
A team of researchers in Assistant Professor Jishnu Das’s lab has developed a new language model that could revolutionize how scientists understand protein interactions.
This model, Sliding Window Interaction Grammar, captures the nuances of interactions.
Read more: tinyurl.com/DasLabModel
school of medicine graduate student research symposium
Mark your calendars for the 30th Annual SOM Graduate Student Research Symposium!
Join us in celebrating the research and scholarly achievements of graduate students across all School of Medicine programs.
Register here: tinyurl.com/SOMSymposium
#PittGradResearch #SOMSymposium2025
mosquito on an arm
Pitt virologists and computational biologists are combining their expertise to understand the replication cycle of a deadly mosquito-borne alphavirus. Read more about how they created a kinetic model of Eastern equine encephalitis virus.
🔗 tinyurl.com/EEEVModel
bioimaging analysis lab image
📚New course alert! Assistant Professor Shikhar Uttam has launched a new graduate-level course: Bioimaging, Analysis and Spatial Biology.
Students learn how imaging data are generated and analyzed to uncover biological insights.
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Read more: tinyurl.com/BioimagingAn...
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Keisuke Ishihara, who has received the American Heart Association Career Development Award!
This grant will support Ishihara’s project titled “The physical role of the cardiac jelly in human cardiac organoids.”
Read more: tinyurl.com/KeisukeIshih...
New publication alert! 🧬 A team of Pitt computational biologists and virologists built a detailed model of how Eastern equine encephalitis virus rapidly hijacks host cells to replicate. Check it out in PLOS Computational Biology.
🔗 tinyurl.com/EasternEquine
#virology #computationalbiology
How you ever wondered how to build software solutions for today's technology-driven world? Software engineers have a front seat to the creation of everything from health care apps to video games.
Read more about how a master's degree can prepare you for this role:
tinyurl.com/CoBBSoftware...
That's a wrap on the CSB retreat!
Last week, we held our annual department retreat at the Carnegie Science Center. It was a day filled with meaningful discussions, research presentations, and opportunities to explore.
tinyurl.com/CSBRetreat2025
Congratulations to Haiyi Mao, who graduated from CPCB on Sunday! “I think the most rewarding part of my PhD experience has been overcoming self-doubt by thinking hard about how to theoretically and biologically solve the problem,” he said.
Read more in our graduate spotlight: tinyurl.com/HaiyiMao
David Koes, BaDoi Phan, Andrew McNutt, Tyler Lovelace, Takis Benos, Haiyi Mao and Minxue Jia
Congratulations to our graduates who attended the School of Medicine Class of 2025 Graduation yesterday! 🎓 💛
19.05.2025 14:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1When a bovine cytokine talks to a human cell: Lessons from cross-species signaling experiments. 😊 🐱 🐰 🐁 🐀 🐄
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A new tool from Assistant Professor Nate Lord uses light to precisely control Nodal signaling in zebrafish embryos—revealing how cells make fate decisions during development. 🔬🐟
Read more about this powerful new approach to studying embryogenesis:
tinyurl.com/LordZebrafish
Two students in the Joint Carnegie Mellon-University of Pittsburgh PhD Program in Computational Biology have received honorable mentions from the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Congratulations to Anamarie Martinez and Emma Flynn!
Read more: tinyurl.com/GRFPPitt
Congratulations to Roshni Bhatt, CPCB graduate! 🎓“Getting my PhD has been a goal of mine for so long and being a grad student has been my life for so long, so I’m grateful for the opportunity to figure out what the next big thing is,” she said.
Read more: tinyurl.com/RoshniBhatt
🎓As David Antolick nears the finish line of his Computational Biomedicine and Biotechnology master’s degree, he reflects on a whirlwind journey—one filled with hours of coding, valuable lessons in machine learning, and a genuine love for the field.
Read more: tinyurl.com/DavidAntolick
PhD student Gaohan Yu at the American Physical Society Global Physics Summit
PhD student Gaohan Yu delivered a talk at the American Physical Society Global Physics Summit. “It’s really opened my mind to see how a conference works, how I should present my work, and how I should advertise my work and myself. It’s a really good experience," he said.
🔗 tinyurl.com/GaohanYu
CSB Seminar Series with Jian Zhou on April 14
Mark your calendars for the CSB Seminar Series on Monday, April 14!
Jian Zhou, Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, will deliver a talk titled "Decoding the sequence-basis of genome regulation."
The event will be held in BST3 room 6014 and on Zoom. We hope to see you there.
Anuraag Bukkiri, postdoctoral associate
Postdoctoral associate Anuraag Bukkuri was recognized with the Scott H. Williamson Award from the Society for Modeling and Theory in Population Biology. This international award honors the achievements and promise of one outstanding early-career researcher. Congratulations!
tinyurl.com/AnuraagB
Machine learning tool reveals new insights about global scientific collaboration
How do you analyze millions of papers in the life sciences and physical sciences that have been published in the past 25 years? Jishnu Das and Swapnil Keshari developed the #MachineLearning tool DISCo-Net and used it to analyze papers from over 200 countries. Read more: tinyurl.com/CSBMachineLe...
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Women's History Month: 5 women leaders in biotech and biomedicine
In celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth, we are illuminating the scientific achievements of women. Though their names have been hidden in history books, women have made key contributions to biomedicine and biotechnology.
Read more about these scientific pioneers: tinyurl.com/BioWomensHis...
The history of Botox: from sausage to skincare
The history of Botox has an unexpected origin - sausages! Its journey spans centuries, involving numerous researchers & seemingly unrelated discoveries.
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CSB members at the Stand Up for Science event in Pittsburgh
CSB members at the Stand Up for Science event in Pittsburgh
CSB members at the Stand Up for Science event in Pittsburgh
Got science? We do, and we are as committed as ever to funding curiosity and finding cures. CSB members attended the Stand Up for Science event in Schenley Plaza last Friday.
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student spotlight: Harry Morford
Harry Morford presents research
“Computational bio has taught me a lot of optimization and precision medicine elements that I think will enhance medicine as much as possible," said Harry Morford, a computational biomedicine and biotechnology master's degree student.
Learn more about Morford: tinyurl.com/HarryMorford
Join us at the Stand Up for Science event on Friday, March 7 from 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. in Schenley Plaza. This event is optional, but we will be bringing apolitical signs with pro-science messaging to raise awareness. Register here: tinyurl.com/PittStandfor...
04.03.2025 19:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ever see dark grey slime on your faucet? Its from bacteria munching on manganese!
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Achyudhan Kutuva earns award to attend conference
PhD student Achyudhan Kutuva earned an award to attend the Systems Approaches to Cancer Biology Conference at the University of Colorado. While attending SACB, he enjoyed learning more about cancer systems biology and networking with other researchers.
Read more: tinyurl.com/AchyudhanKut...
Help science thrive on Pitt Day of Giving
Help science thrive on this Pitt Day of Giving!
Your gift to the Computational and Systems Biology Fund will support training for the next generation of scientists and advance our mission of innovation.
Make an impact today: tinyurl.com/CompBioFund
We're only a few days away from Pitt Day of Giving! Your gift, no matter the size, will make a world of difference in advancing innovation and education. Consider donating to the Computational and Systems Biology fund to support research and discovery.
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