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Erin Sparks, UD assistant professor of plant molecular biology and CBCB Affiliated Faculty, and her research team will investigate what happens when you take aspects of the above-ground part of the plant and put them in the below-ground root....

Kelvin Lee appointed interim vice president of research, scholarship and innovation at UD.

Juniper Lake, bioinformatics data science, won the Interdisciplinary Research Prize for her dissertation “Muscle Disorder or Metabolic Disorder: Genomic, Transcriptomic and Metabolic Insights into the Pathogenesis of Wooden Breast and White Striping in Commercial Broiler Chickens.”

CBCB mourns the loss of our Affiliated Faculty, Dr. Babatunde Ogunnaike. He served as an Affiliated Faculty member for the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. He was an expert in process control, modeling and simulation, systems biology and applied statistics. 

CBCB Affiliated Faculty, Melinda Duncan, has been appointed research associate vice president for research at UD and director of the Delaware IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE). 

Wommack led members of the Viral Ecology and Informatics Lab (VEIL) on a NSF mission on UD’s research ship. The VEIL members included Bioinformatics Trainer and Workshop Coordinator, Amelia Harrison and Bioinformatics PhD student, Barbra Ferrell.

CBCB Affiliated Faculty member and healthcare informatics researcher, Susan Conaty-Buck, has been named recipient of the 2022 State Advocate Award of Excellence from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). This award is presented annually in recognition of outstanding achievements by nurse practitioners and advocates within each state who have made a significant contribution toward increasing awareness and recognition of nurse practitioners (NPs).

CBCB’s Applied Bioinformatics Certificate is among UD’s College of Engineering’s Best Online Program as ranked by U.S. News & World Report in its 2022 U.S. News Best Online Programs. 

CBCB mourns the loss of our Affiliated Faculty, Dr. Hagit Shatkay. She served as a professor for the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and was considered a bioinformatics expert. Her research interests focused on biomedical computing, computational biomedicine and computational methods in the sciences, including biology, medicine and physics.

CBCB mourns the loss of our Adjunct Faculty member, Harbinder Singh Dhillon. Dr. Dhillon was a Professor of Molecular Genetics of Behavior Development at Delaware State University.

CBCB Affiliated Faculty, Erin Sparks is getting much closer to understanding plant mechanics thanks to an engineering-based approach typically used on manmade structures.