Department News

William Greenwald and Dylan Skola awarded 2017 ARCS Fellowship

August 11, 2017

Bioinformatics & Systems Biology graduate students William Greenwald and Dylan Skola have each been awarded an ARCS Fellowship for 2017-18.

Benjamin Kellman: Bike Ride from San Diego to San Francisco for AAAS

July 27, 2017

Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Ph.D. student Benjamin Kellman organized a bike ride from San Diego to San Francisco to raise money for AAAS.

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Niema Moshiri awarded Distinguished Teaching Award

April 5, 2017

Niema Moshiri, a Ph.D. student in the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology graduate program, has been selected by the UCSD Academic Senate as a recipient of the 2016/17 Distinguished Teaching Award for Graduate Students.

Benjamin Kellman: Biking for Science

February 16, 2017

Benjamin Kellman, a Ph.D. student in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, is biking along the California Pacific Coast to fundraise for the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Ruth Williams Wins Major Math Prize

November 17, 2016

Professor Ruth Williams in the Department of Mathematics has been awarded the 2016 John von Neumann Theory Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics.

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Olga Botvinnik and Gabriel Pratt awarded 2016 ARCS award

November 10, 2016

Bioinformatics & Systems Biology graduate students Olga Botvinnik and Gabriel Pratt have each been awarded an ARCS Fellowship.

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Rachel Marty awarded NSF GROW Fellowship

July 20, 2016

Rachel Marty has been awarded an NSF GROW fellowship to conduct research in cancer immunology at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. The project entails computationally categorizing immune regions of the genome, such as HLA and KIR, and deciphering their roles in cancer. The NSF GROW (Graduate Resarch Opportunities Worldwide) Fellowship provides opportunities for students to engage in international research collaborations abroad. Rachel Marty received a B.S. in Computer Science with a specialization in Bioinformatics at UCSD and is currently in the Ph.D. program in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at UCSD.

Olga Botvinnik

May 25, 2016

Olga Botvinnik, a Ph.D. student in the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology graduate program, is featured in a story about women in the open source software community.

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowships awarded to Rachel Marty

June 19, 2015

The National Science Foundation has awarded Graduate Research Fellowships to Ph.D. student Rachel Marty in the graduate Bioinformatics and Systems Biology program and to Max Shen in the undergraduate Bioinformatics program.

Trey Ideker named AAAS Fellow

November 26, 2014

Trey Ideker has been selected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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