Computational Biology
The ISCB Fellows program honors members who have distinguished themselves through outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics.
Itsik Pe’er and Eugene Wu have been selected to help lead the National Synthesis Center for Organismal Resilience (NSCORE), a multidisciplinary research center that will bring together biologists and computer scientists to study how plants and animals adapt to a rapidly changing world.
Using AI to solve real-world problems, especially in healthcare.
About
The Computational Biology Group brings together interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary individuals and skillsets to tackle problems in high throughput genomics, systems biology, and genetics.
The group develops computational methods to analyze high throughput data on genetic variants within species, primarily human SNP, and sequencing data.
The student and postdoc body in the group is very diverse in terms of undergraduate background as well as current PhD program or postdoctoral affiliation. The group meets weekly giving an opportunity for students to present their research internally and feedback on one another’s work. Weekly meetings occasionally give host to guest speakers, include a journal club, or extracurricular activities.