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Arshan Nasir Awarded Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Arshan Nasir, an Informatics PhD Student, is one of 29 students selected to receive the 2014-2015 Dissertation Completion Fellowship through the Graduate College.  Arshan passed his preliminary exams in January 2014, and spent the Spring 2014 semester conducting research at the Universitié Paris-Sud, Institute Génétique et Microbiolgie as a recipient of the Chateaubriand Fellowship.  He recently published a new article […]

New App Warns Users of Potential Hazards

David Tcheng, co-founder of the start-up One Llama, was recently interviewed by MIT Online Review  regarding the development of  smartphone technology to alert people of audible threats.  The new app is called Audio Aware and it alerts users wearing headphones to potential hazards  that they might otherwise not hear.  In his interview, Tcheng explains: “It […]

Conference Presentation by Scott Nixon, PhD Student

Scott Nixon, an Informatics PhD student, attended the conference for International Plant & Animal Genome XXII in San Diego, CA from January 11-15, 2014. There he presented “Modifications in the gene expression of microglia following peripheral mycobacterium challenge“, as well as being co-author on a second presentation entitled “Characterization of the microglia transcriptome in IDO1 knockout and wild-type mice“. This was […]

New Publication by Arshan Nasir, PhD Student

Arshan Nasir, an Informatics PhD Student,  has published a new article titled “Global Patterns of Protein Domain Gain and Loss in Superkingdoms” in PLOS Computational Biology. This is Arshan’s first publication from his PhD Research.  He is currently spending the Spring 2014 semester conducting research at the Universitié Paris-Sud, Institute Génétique et Microbiolgie as a recipient of […]

Grad Student Spotlight: Kyungho Lee

The work of Kyungho Lee, a graduate student in Informatics, was one of five artists featured during the art show at VizWeek 2012, held in last October in Seattle. VizWeek is the premier forum for computer scientists working in scientific and information visualization. Lee's work deals with the compression and data loss caused by our digital world.  More […]

Two New Publications by PhD Student Khuram Shahzad

Khuram Shahzad, a current PhD student in the Illinois Informatics Institute, has recently published two new research articles. Bioinformatics and Gene Network Analysis of the Swine Mammary Gland Transcriptome during Late Gestation was published in the July 2013 issue of Bioinformatics and Biology Insights and can be accessed online here.  Shahzad's second article titled Insight from βC1 […]

PhD student Arshan Nasir wins award

  Informatics PhD candidate Arshan Nasir and his advisor Professor Gustavo Caetano-Anolles, professor of crop sciences, and their collaborator Kyung Mo Kim of the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology were rewarded for their publication of their article “Giant viruses coexisted with the cellular ancestors and represent a distinct supergroup along with superkingdoms Archaea, […]

Informatics Club and Clark-Lindsey

  The Informatics Club was recently highlighted in the News-Gazette for the service work they are doing at Clark-Lindsey:   http://www.news-gazette.com/news/technology/2013-03-04/ui-volunteers-help-clark-lindsey-village-residents-tech-issues.html

Informatics grad student’s work featured

Informatics PhD student Arshan Nasir was part of Professor Gustavo Caetano-Anolles's team of researchers whose work on giant viruses has produced ground-breaking results.  [link to article]