Research Papers
- Light-Driven Changes in Energy Metabolism Directly Entrain the Cyanobacterial Circadian Oscillator
- A Vision for a Biomedical Cloud (J Intern Med. 2011 Dec 5. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2796.2011.02491)
- Consequences of eukaryotic enhancer architecture for gene expression dynamics, development, and fitness (Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America)
- Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies variants associated with platinating agent susceptibility across populations.
- Rapid growth of a hepatocellular carcinoma and the driving mutations revealed by cell-population genetic analysis of whole-genome data (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Jul 5.)
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News
IGSB Senior Fellow Janet Rowley wins the 2012 Japan Prize for Healthcare and Medical Technology
Janet Davison Rowley, MD, the Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago, will share the 2012 Japan Prize for Healthcare and Medical Technology with Brian J. Druker, MD, from the Oregon Health and Science University, and Nicholas B. Lydon, PhD, formerly with Novartis. They were chosen for their roles in the development of the first precisely targeted anti-cancer drug, called imatinib (Gleevec®). Press Release
IGSB Fellow Habibul Ahsan receives named professorship
Habibul Ahsan, MD, MMedSc, professor in the departments of health studies, human genetics and medicine, director of the Center for Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention at the University of Chicago Medical Center and associate director of the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been named a Louis Block Professor. Press Release
Top Japanese Scientist leaving government post to move to the University of Chicago Medical Center
“Dr. Nakamura has made major contributions to modern genetics and genomics,” said Kenneth Polonsky, MD, Dean of the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. “We are extremely gratified by his interest in continuing his illustrious career at the University of Chicago.” Press Release
IGSB Core Faculty Robert Grossman appointed Chief Research Informatics Officer of the Division of the Biological Sciences
Robert Grossman, PhD, assumed the role of chief research informatics officer and is currently overseeing a research group focused on bioinformatics, data mining, data intensive computing and related areas. Press Release
Earth Microbiome Project to catalogue world’s microbes
An initiative called the Earth Microbiome Project, led by Jack Gilbert at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and including scientists all over the world, is tackling the massive task of cataloguing the DNA of all those microbes. The knowledge could potentially one day help us understand climate change, increase world food production and even avoid unnecessary surgeries.Press Release
UChicago Awards $600,000 to Argonne-University collaborators
Eight pairs of University and Argonne National Laboratory researchers recently received $600,000, collectively, in Strategic Collaborative Initiative (SCI) seed grants from the University following a rigorous competition managed by Argonne and the University of Chicago. Press Release
Seminars & Events
Cutting Gordian Knots at the Pool of Bethesda: Adventures in the Genomics of Inflammation
Medical Center (= Billings)
AMB N002
Hanging on during evolution: extreme modifications of the vertebrate architecture
Hinds Geophysical Sciences 176
Ethical Issues in Genetic Research: Biobanks as a Case Study
Hinds Geophysical Sciences
176
2012 REU Program in Computational Systems Genomics of Neuropsychiatric Phenotypes
