Department News

Elizabeth Winzeler elected to National Academy of Medicine

Congratulations to Prof. Elizabeth Winzeler in the BISB program on being elected to the National Academy of Medicine!

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Andrea Castro awarded Siebel Scholarship Award

Andrea Castro, a Ph.D. student in the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology graduate program, has been named a 2021 Siebel Scholar.

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Anh Pham awarded 2021-2022 Sigma Delta Epsilon Tau Chapter Fellowship

Anh Pham, a Ph.D. student in the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology graduate program, was awarded the 2021-2022 Sigma Delta Epsilon Tau Chapter Fellowship.

BISB Bootcamp Summer PI Talk Series

This summer, the BISB Bootcamp is hosting a weekly research seminar series featuring BISB and DBMI faculty! Live on Zoom, Thursdays noon-1pm throughout the summer. The talks are aimed at incoming PhD students seeking rotation projects, but the event is open to all members of the BISB program. Future applicants and others who would like to attend, please contact mcuoco@ucsd.edu. See here for further information.

Elizabeth Winzeler - UC San Diego Health Sciences Women Leadership Award

Prof. Elizabeth Winzeler in the BISB program received the UC San Diego Health Sciences Women Leadership Award.

Susan Taylor - ASBMB Fellow

Prof. Susan Taylor in the BISB program has been selected by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for their inaugural class of fellows.

Gene Yeo

Prof. Gene Yeo, codirector of the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Graduate Program, has appeared on Good Morning America's list of Who is Making Asian American Pacific Islander History in 2021.

Daniela Nachmanson named to UC President’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellows

Daniela Nachmanson, a Ph.D. student in Bioinformatics & Systems Biology, has been named to the 2021 class of UC President’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellows.

UCSD's Bioinformatics Undergradute Program tied at #2 in US News & World Report

UCSD's Bioinformatics Undergraduate Program is tied at #2 in US News & World Report's category Best Undergraduate Biocomputing/Bioinformatics/Biotechnology Programs.

ENCODE 3

An article in Nature announces the release of Phase III of the ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements) Project, the most complete catalog to-date of the functional elements in the human and mouse genomes. This international collaboration with hundreds of authors includes a number of BISB faculty (Joe Ecker, Graham McVicker, Bing Ren, Wei Wang, and Gene Yeo) and BISB students (Yupeng He, Vu Ngo, Gabriel Pratt, Mengchi Wang, Kai Zhang, and Yuan Zhao).