Distinguished dissertations
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.”
In Memorium: Babatunde A. Ogunnaike
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.
Biomedical Research Leader
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).
Marine Viruses and Microbes
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.
For the Record
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).
UD Online Graduate Programs Among Best in Nation
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.
In Memoriam: Hagit Shatkay-Reshef
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.
In Memoriam: Harbinder Singh Dhillon
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.
AG-Inspired Engineering
CBCB Affiliated Faculty, Erin Sparks is getting much closer to understanding plant mechanics thanks to an engineering-based approach typically used on manmade structures.
Hard-Core Bacteria
CBCB Affiliated Faculty, Julie Maresca and collaborators show how bacterial communities live and change in concrete.
Insights into Cataracts
CBCB Affiliated Faculty, Salil Lachke work with colleagues at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research and 23andMe Inc., has found 54 locations on the human genome that are associated with the risk of age-related cataracts, the leading cause of blindness worldwide.
Transforming CO2 and Sugars into Biofuel
CBCB Affiliated Faculty, Eleftherios (Terry) Papoutsakis is developing a system to produce bioenergy from a mix of microbes that can convert carbon dioxide into useful chemicals.