Nov. 2009. News coverage of our recent paper in Dev. Cell.

 

Nov. 2009. Xu Ling successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Xu !

 

Oct. 2009. Xin He successfully defends his thesis, becoming the first member of the lab to graduate with a Ph.D.

 

Aug. 2009. Genome Web daily scan selects PNAS paper (in collaboration with Gene Robinson) in “Editor’s Picks of What’s Worth Reading on the Web”. See here. Also see full story here.

 

July 2009. NCSA feature article on lab research, with full-length presentation by PI. See here

 

March 2009. Genome Web daily scan selects EMMA paper in “Editor’s Picks of What’s Worth Reading on the Web”. See here

 

November 2008. Fellowship awarded to the PI by the Center for Advanced Studies, UIUC.

 

October 2008. Graduate students Xin He and Xu Ling present their work at the RECOMB Regulatory Genomics Conference, Boston.

 

September 2008. NIH R01 Research Grant to support our collaboration with Profs. Brodsky andd Wolfe (U. Mass Med School). This grant will fund our joint research on systematic characterization of transcription factor binding specificities.

 

June 2008. NIH R01 Research Grant to our lab, in collaboration with Prof. Marc Halfon’s lab at SUNY Buffalo! This grant will fund our research on “high sensitivity discovery of cis-regulatory modules”.

 

May 2008. NSF CAREER Award, for our research on Probabilistic frameworks for studying gene regulatory sequences and their evolution

 

May 2008. CSE Fellowship awarded to graduate student Jin Tae Kwak. This fellowship, funded by the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) program, will undertake preliminary research on “Computational methods for cancer diagnosis from FTIR spectroscopy data” in collaboration with Prof. Rohit Bhargava’s lab (BioEngineering).

 

December 2007. Aging Reversal Project with Prof. Howard Chang’s lab at Stanford. Our motif map method was instrumental in identifying NF-kb as a key player in the aging process. 

This paper was the cover article in Genes & Development, Dec 2007.
 Follow these links for Prof. Chang’s interviews to the popular media.        

 

August 2007. NCSA Faculty Fellowship to the PI will fund one year’s work on exploring grid computation for understanding social behavior in honeybees.

 

April 2007. Roche Sequencing Competition: A five member team, including Sinha, was awarded the 3rd prize in this nation-wide competition. The award comprised 300 MB of sequencing data .

 

July 2006. Honey Bee Project with Prof. Gene Robinson’s lab. Our lab’s work on the honey bee genome, published in PNAS as a companion paper to the main genome paper in Nature, has been kindly received by the news media. Here are some venues where this work was covered. 
 

 

March 2006. The First UIUC Bioinformatics Summit. Talks archived here.

 

PI’s profile on UIUC Engineering News

 

PI’s profile on Daily Illini article