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 […]
We are pleased to announce creation of a new journal named “Frontiers in Computational Physiology and Medicine”. The journal will be a forum for the publication of original, computational modeling studies that provide novel insights into the nature of physiological function in both health and disease. Frontiers in Computational Physiology and Medicine is a sub-specialty […]
Assistant Professor Sridevi Sarma was chosen by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for inclusion in their latest Women in Science booklet. The article includes a brief overview of neuroscience and the groundbreaking work which Sri is pursuing for the ICM in biomedical engineering. From the introduction: “In this latest Women in […]
In the October 8 Hopkins Medicine news release “Computer Predicts Pancreatic Cancer”, research by Assistant Professor Rachel Karchin published in the September 15 issue of Cancer Biology and Therapy was highlighted. From the text: “Using a computer program, researchers from Johns Hopkins have predicted which changes in the DNA code may cause pancreatic cells to […]
