| May 12 | Welcome to Dr. Ickwon Choi, who is joining us as a postdoc after finishing his PhD at Case Western / Cleveland Clinic, working with Dr. Michael Kattan. |
| Apr 12 | Congratulations again to Tuobin, whose algorithmic work for our phosphoproteomics collaboration with Scott Gerber has yielded a paper to appear in Bioinformatics: "MMFPh: A Maximal Motif Finder for Phosphoproteomics Datasets" |
| Apr 12 | Congratulations to Tuobin, whose phosphoproteomics work in collaboration with Scott Gerber has yielded a paper to appear in Chemistry & Biology: "Rapid determination of multiple linear kinase substrate motifs by mass spectrometry" |
| Apr 12 | Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Scott Parker, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation "Combinatorial optimization methods for the design of deimmunized protein therapeutics" |
| Mar 12 | Lu's DNA shuffling paper is out in BMC BIoinformatics |
| Feb 12 | The NIH is supporting our therapeutic protein work (collaborative with Karl Griswold, Engineering, and Annie De Groot, Institute for Immunology and Informatics) with an R21 grant "Computationally optimized anti-staphylococcal biotherapeutics" |
| Jan 12 | [Now filled] Postdoc position available for the newly-funded antibody effector function project (Gates Foundation Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery) |
| Jan 12 | Welcome to Dr. Yoonjoo Choi, who is joining us as a postdoc after completing a DPhil in protein informatics with Charlotte Deane at Oxford |
| Dec 11 | Congratulations to Andrew, whose paper "Structure-Guided Deimmunization of Therapeutic Proteins" has been accepted to RECOMB-2012 |
| Dec 11 | Congratulations to Lu, whose paper "Ballast: A Ball-based Algorithm for Structural Motifs" has been accepted to RECOMB-2012 |
| Dec 11 | Congratulations to Andrew, who was invited to give an oral presentation "Optimization algorithms for the design of immunotolerant biotherapies" at the 243rd ACS National meeting |
| Nov 11 | PhD positions available for next year, particularly focusing on therapeutic protein design and vaccine design. Apply through the department's admissions process. |
| Oct 11 | We will be participating in a newly-funded Gates Foundation collaboration for AIDS vaccine development project on leveraging antibody effector function. |
| Oct 11 | Congratulations to Lu, whose paper "A divide and conquer approach to determine the Pareto frontier for optimization of protein engineering experiments" has been accepted to Proteins |
| Sep 11 | Andrew's combinatorial mutagenesis paper is out in J Comp Biol. |
| Jul 11 | Congratulations to Lu, who won a best poster award at 3dsig for her poster on "Ball-based algorithms for structural motifs" |
| Jul 11 | [Now filled] Postdoc position available for our therapeutic protein deimmunization project. |
| Jul 11 | Chris is off to the Institute for Immunology and Informatics for a sabbatical. |
| Jun 11 | Himanshu's structural inference paper is out at J Comp Biol. |
| Jun 11 | The NIH is supporting our work on therapeutic protein deimmunization with an R01 grant entitled "Functional Deimmunization of Therapeutic Proteins" |
| Jun 11 | Congratulations to Tozammel (Naren Ramakrishnan's group, Va Tech), whose paper "Using Physicochemical Properties of Amino Acids to induce Graphical Models of Residue Coupling" was accepted to BioKDD-2011. |
| Jun 11 | Congratulations to Bornika for successfully defending her MS thesis "Modeling Proteins and Protein-protein Interactions with
Probabilistic Graphical Models" |
| Jun 11 | Congratulations to Lu, who will be giving a poster at 3dsig: "Ball-based algorithms for structural motifs" |
| Jun 11 | Congratulations to Andrew, who will be giving a poster at 3dsig: "EpiDEE: Structure-based deimmunization of therapeutic proteins" |
| May 11 | Betty is giving a poster "Computational predictive analysis of relationships between
antibody effector function, Fc receptor type, and glycosylation
state in HIV patients" at the Wetterhahn symposium |