CCIB Faculty Member Dr. Angélica González (Biology) was selected as a recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER Award. This award provides a five years’ funding, a total of $925,000, to support her research of “Integrating Neoecological and Paleoecological Approaches to Exploring the Effects of Climate Change on Arthropod Diversity and Community Structure“. They will integrate… continue reading
CCIB PhD Student Nidhi Sheth (Grgicak Lab) won the Graduate Research Fellowship from National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to work on “Selectively analyzing and interpreting DNA from multiple donors with a full Single-Cell strategy.” This fellowship provides three years of tuition, full stipend, and other research expenses (combined up to $50k/year). Congratulations!
CCIB Associate Professor Dr. David Salas-de la Cruz (Chemistry, Graduate Program Director) was awarded a five-year, $4,600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation CMMI. It is a multi university effort with University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Rowan University and Rutgers-Camden. Professor Dr. Shu Yang from University of Pennsylvania is the Principal Investigator. Congratulations to you all!
CCIB Faculty Member Dr. Hao Zhu (Chemistry) received a 2.78 million R01 grant from National Institute of Health (NIH). This five-year project aims to develop novel mechanism-driven Virtual Adverse Outcome Pathway (vAOP) models for the fast and accurate assessment of hepatotoxicity in a high-throughput manner. Congratulatioins!
The Center for Computational and Integrative Biology at Rutgers-Camden is pleased to announce two winners for the 2019 CCIB Best Student Paper Awards. Tied for first place: Gabriele Skidmore (Klein Lab) Caulobacter crescentus Adapts to Phosphate Starvation by Synthesizing Anionic Glycoglycerolipids and a Novel Glycosphingolipid. MBio Ruchi Lohia (Brannigan Lab) Sequence specificity despite intrinsic… continue reading
Congratulations to CCIB members for being awarded the Catalyst and Multidisciplinary Provost Grants! Catalyst Grants Program: PI: Dr. Xingyun Qi (assistant professor, FASC-biology) Title: Identification of Salinity-Response Genes in Stomatal Development Multidisciplinary Grants Program: PI: Dr. Maria Solesio (assistant professor, FASC-biology) Co-PIs: Dr. Andrey Grigoriev (professor, FASC-biology) and Dr. Sunil Shende (associate professor, FASC-computer science)… continue reading
