Jean Fan, an undergraduate student working with Dr. Rachel Karchin, has been awarded a 2011 Provost’s Undergraduate Research (PURA) Award for her proposal entitled “Improving computational models of the biological consequences of mutation through limiting the phylogenetic distances of orthologous sequences”. Congratulations to Jean for her award!
Millie Shah, a biomedical engineering undergraduate student in the lab of Feilim Mac Gabhann, has been awarded a 2011 Provost’s Undergraduate Research (PURA) Award for her project entitled “Computational Modeling of VEGF and sFlt-1 to Stimulate Preeclampsia and Evaluate Treatments”. “For [her] PURA project, [she] developed a computer model that depicts the activity of these […]
Brent Millare, a second-year BME PhD student in Dr. Natalia Trayanova’s lab, has been awarded a National Research Service Award (NRSA) from NHLBI. The award will support his project “Metabolic/Electrophysiological Model of the Heart under Ischemia/Reperfusion”, which aims to address the ways in which coupling between metabolic and electrophysiological processes in the whole heart contribute […]
For a second year in a row, 4th year PhD student Lukas Rantner’s abstract submitted to the Heart Rhythm Scientific Sessions was chosen to be presented at the meeting’s featured poster session. Heart Rhythm (about 13 thousand participants) accepts only about 30% of submitted abstracts, and only the top 1% are chosen for the featured […]
Jodi Chapman (Art as Applied to Medicine graduate student at JHMI) was awarded the 2011 Alan W. Cole Scholarship, the top scholarship prize from the Vesalius Trust, for her work collaborating with the Karchin Lab on an educational computer video game to teach protein evolution. The Vesalius Trust for Visual Communication in the Health Sciences […]
Sri Sarma, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering in the Institute for Computational Medicine, is the recipient of a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation. The CAREER award, given to faculty members at the beginning of their academic careers, is one of NSF’s most competitive awards and emphasizes high-quality research […]
Jason Constantino placed third in the young investigators poster competition (translational category) at the Gordon Research Conference on Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms, which was held on February 13-19 at Galveston, Texas. His poster was entitled, “Systems Biology Approach to Cardiac Electromechanics: Impaired Calcium Kinetics and Remodeled Ventricular Structure Prolong the Electromechanical Delay in Dyssynchronous Heart Failure.” […]
Foundations of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics II (Course number – BME 580.688/580.488 and CS 600.688/600.488) will be available this spring with Assistant Professor Rachel Karchin of the Institute for Computational Medicine and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University. Computational biology / bioinformatics is a fast-moving field at the interface between molecular biology, computer science, […]
From January 4-7, Dr. Rachel Karchin attended the 2011 Session of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing at the Fairmont Orchid Resort on the Big Island of Hawaii, USA. While there she co-chaired a workshop on the “Identification of Aberrant Pathway and Network Activity from High-throughput data”. More information on the Symposium can be found on […]
The Karchin Lab received a MOLLY award for outstanding contribution to the first CAGI (Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation) meeting at the University of California, Berkeley on December 10, 2010. The CAGI project is “a community experiment to objectively assess computational methods for predicting the phenotypic impacts of genomic variation”. More details on the project […]
