Computational Biology
The natural world has had billions of years of evolution to perfect systems, creating elegant solutions to tricky problems. CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵÌýAssistant Professor Orit Peleg’s work hopes to illuminate and explore those solutions with the long-term goal
I recently attended the 2014 Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB) with fellow IQ Biology student Joey Azofeifa and our advisor Robin Dowell. The conference had many
Mary Allen holds up a valentine sent to her from a childhood friend. It sits in her cubicle where she is hard at work tearing apart genomic data looking for patterns. This friend, who has Down syndrome, is part of the reason that Allen, a
Most university faculty divide their time between research activities, teaching and service to their institutions, sometimes putting in hundreds of hours weekly to accomplish the job’s demands. Being able to shine in all of these areas is a rare
Butcher Seed Grant WinnersSeven recipients of the 2014 Butcher Seed Grant Awards were recently notified of their winning proposals in interdisciplinary bioscience. These grants bring critical funding to many of Colorado’s top academic researchers
BioFrontiers partners with world’s oldest biotech industry: BreweriesIn the basement of the Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building on CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ’s East Campus sits a machine that can sequence roughly 6 billion DNA segments in about a week.By
JSCBB Mini Symposium Encourages CollaborationIt looks a lot like the other buildings on the CU-ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ campus, with its rustic Italian-inspired tile roof and red brick, but the Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building (affectionately known by
It must be said that I have had a very difficult time writing this blog-post. The reason, after a few too many cups of coffee, came clear to me:ÌýScience is HardÌý(and I worried if that’s what I should tell my readers). Certainly there are
Genotypes, phenotypes, alternators and faulty wiringRobin Dowell understands machines of all kinds. The MCD Biology assistant professor and BioFrontiers faculty member has been restoring old cars since she was 14 years old. She rebuilt her first
In aÌýnew paper released today inÌýNature, BioFrontiers Institute scientists at the University of Colorado in ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, Tom Cech and Leslie Leinwand, detailed a new target for anti-cancer drug development that is sitting at the ends of our