| Sep 09 | Welcome back to Nan Zheng, who was awarded a Presidential Scholarship to continue the protein graphical model visualization work she began as a WISP intern. |
| Aug 09 | The NSF is supporting our proposal "Algorithmic Problems in Protein Structure Studies", collaborative with Gopal Pandurangan. |
| Aug 09 | Welcome to new lab member Lu He. She's currently developing algorithms for optimizing protein recombination. |
| Aug 09 | The NSF is supporting our proposal "Integration, Prediction, and Generation of Mixed Mode Information using Graphical Models, with Applications to Protein-Protein Interactions", collaborative with Naren Ramakrishnan, Chris Langmead, and Alan Friedman. |
| Aug 09 | CSB-09 proceedings are available, including Hetu and Bornika's paper on sequence+structure graphical models, and Paritosh's on solution scattering. |
| Aug 09 | Wei's paper on stability+diversity in recombination has hit the press. |
| Jul 09 | John's paper on protein design by sampling has hit the press. |
| Jun 09 | Congratulations to Hetu for the "best contribution" award at 3dsig for his presentation "A graphical model approach for predicting free energies of association for protein-protein interactions under backbone and side-chain flexibility". |
| Jun 09 | Dr. John Thomas trades in his baseball cap for a floppy hat. Congratulations to John!
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| May 09 | Wei's presenting his fragment swapping (SWAGMER) paper at RECOMB-09. |
| May 09 | Welcome to Tuobin, who is joining the lab. He is developing computational methods in proteomics. |
| May 09 | Congratulations to Nancy, who was awarded a Presidential Scholarship to continue her work on interactive exploration of residue coupling. |
| May 09 | Congratulations to Hetu and Bornika, whose paper "Modeling and inference of sequence-structure specificity" was accepted to CSB-09. |
| May 09 | Congratulations to Paritosh, whose paper "Characterizing the space of interatomic distance distribution functions consistent with solution scattering data" was accepted to CSB-09. |
| Apr 09 | Andrew, Bornika, and Himanshu are all presenting posters at the Dartmouth integrative biology symposium. |
| Mar 09 | Congratulations to Nan, who was awarded a Microsoft Scholarship! |
| Mar 09 | John's protein-protein interaction specificity paper has hit the press (early view) at Proteins. |
| Feb 09 | The Neukom Institute will help fund our work with Karl Griswold on deimmunization of therapeutic proteins. |
| Feb 09 | Congratulations to Wei, whose paper "Algorithms for joint optimization of stability and diversity in planning combinatorial libraries of chimeric proteins" was accepted to the special issue of J. Comp. Bio. for RECOMB-08. |
| Jan 09 | Congratulations to John, whose paper "Graphical models of protein-protein interaction specificity from correlated mutations and interaction data" has been accepted for publication in Proteins. |
| Jan 09 | Welcome to Andrew, who is joining the lab. Andrew is working on techniques for optimizing protein engineering. |
| Dec 08 | Congratulations to Wei, whose paper "Protein fragment swapping: a method for asymmetric, selective site-directed recombination" was accepted to RECOMB-09. |
| Nov 08 | Congratulations to John, whose paper "Protein design by sampling an undirected graphical model of residue constraints" was accepted for publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. |
| Aug 08 | Xiaoduan's paper on stability mutagenesis is out (Proc. CSB-08). |
| Aug 08 | Congratulations to John for successfully defending his dissertation, "Graphical Models of Sequence Constraints on Protein Families". |