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CBCB Affiliated Faculty, Julie Maresca and collaborators show how bacterial communities live and change in concrete.

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.

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.

Kelly Mulholland is among 10 doctoral students awarded dissertation prizes for 2020 and 2021. Mulholland received the Interdisciplinary Research Prize for her work developing tools and techniques to identify bacteria, viruses and fungi found in a chicken’s respiratory...

CBCB Visiting Scholar, Jennifer Wyffles led a major project to artificially inseminate sharks. She did the sperm microscopy work associated with the study at UD’s BioImaging Core.

CBCB Affiliated Faculty, Salil Lachke's lab has been awarded a $1.6 million NIH grant based on the breakthrough discovery a new gene.

CBCB's Applied Bioinformatics (certificate) is part of the three University of Delaware online graduate programs ranked among the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in its 2021 U.S. News Best Online Programs.

We would like to congratulate Sachin Gavali for receiving the prestigious Sigma Xi Grant! Sachin is a fourth-year Bioinformatics PhD student and works on developing machine learning algorithms to learn from sparse and disconnected data.

We would like to congratulate Adam Pater-Faranda for receiving the Fight for Sight 2020 Summer Student Fellowship! Adam is a second-year Bioinformatics PhD student and works on mining transcriptomic data to understand the molecular pathology of the lens injury...

Calvin Keeler, CBCB's Affiliated Faculty member, has been appointed interim dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resource.

CBCB Affiliated Faculty, Terry Papoutsakis has been named a 2020 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

CBCB Faculty, Hagit Shatkay’s Intro to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology course is teaching students how important computational methods can be in the face of a pandemic. Her lineup of expert guest speakers included CBCB Affiliated Faculty Carl Schmidt. NIH...