Computational Biology News

Computational Biology & Bioinformatics student Danting Jiang will be defending her dissertation on April 1, 2024.

Computational Biology & Bioinformatics student Devang Thakkar will be defending his dissertation April 3, 2024. 

Two Computational Biology and Bioinformatics students will be defending their dissertations during the month of March. They will be held in person and virtually. 

Niven Singh, a 5th year PhD student in Duke’s Computational Biology & Bioinformatics program, earned a “Best Poster Award” during the 11th International Conference on Biological Physics in Seoul, South Korea in August.

Jeffrey Headd graduated from Duke University in 2009 with a Ph.D. degree in computational biology and bioinformatics as a member of the David and Jane Richardson lab following his undergraduate studies in computational biology (B.S.) at Brown University.

 

These past couple of years, I have found that what motivates me to keep doing science is often investigating what motivates science as a whole. Giving my work the historical and cultural context that is often left out of the of the daily grind keeps me inspired to add to those narratives.

Joseph M. Volpe graduated from Duke University in 2008 with a Ph.D. in computational biology and bioinformatics following his undergraduate B.S. in computer science at Wake Forest University. In 2007, he received the American Association of Immunologists-Huang Foundation Young Investigator Award for his work in anti-HIV antibody composition.

Jameson Blount, a second year student in Duke's Computational Biology & Bioinformatics program, presented his research to North Carolina legislators during Graduate Education Day.

It’s an old story: Pathogen sickens humans. Humans create medicine. Pathogen evolves a way around the medicine. Humans are back to square one.