Announcements
Accepting Applications for Pilot Grants for Faculty Career Development! [PDF]
Junior and senior faculty interested in broadening their investigative research in the area of Systems Biology are invited to apply for pilot grants of up to $50,000 per year for two-year terms.
Accepting Applications for the CBC Research Fellow Program [PDF]
Doctoral scientists interested in fellowships to study the principles of transcriptional regulatory networks are invited to apply.
Accepting Applications for the 2012 Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program
Undergraduates interested in this systems biology REU are invited to apply by February 24, 2012.
Latest News



Three Faculty Receive Center Pilot Awards
Michael Rust, Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, and Core Faculty Member in the Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology (IGSB) at the University of Chicago, received a 2011 CCSB pilot award to support his project, “Robust Biological Oscillators Generated by Interlocked Transcriptional and Post-Translational Networks: A Systems Analysis.” He joins two other systems biologists who received CCSB pilot awards in 2010. They are Richard Jones, Assistant Professor in the Ben May Department for Cancer Research and Core Faculty Member of the IGSB at the University of Chicago and Ravi Allada, Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Physiology at Northwestern University. Dr. Jones’ project is “Probing the Molecular Mechanisms of the Robust EDF-Mediated Transcriptional Response in Cancer Cells.” Dr. Allada’s project is “Transcriptional Regulatory Network Sensitivity, Stability, and Robustness in Drosophila Circadian Clocks: Solving the Mystery of Temperature Compensation.”
DNA repair protein caught in act of molecular theft
CCSB investigator Dr. Chuan He and his colleagues at UChicago and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have observed, for the first time, an intermediate stage in the chemical process that repairs DNA methylation damage and regulates many important biological functions that impact health conditions such as obesity, cancer and diabetes.
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New research technology to target human gut bacteria
CCSB investigator Dr. Rustem Isamgilov, professor in chemistry at the University of Chicago, is leading a team of scientists that has received a $1.1 million grant to conduct research as part of the Human Microbiome Project.
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'Programming' Sherlock Holmes not so elementary
Andrey Rzhetsky finds inspiration in Holmes, who used penetrating powers of reasoning to make the most of diverse and seemingly trivial pieces of evidence that other detectives ignored. With the help of a two-year $1,211,000 National Institutes of Health grant, the co-Principal Investigator proposes to develop automated methods to harvest, synthesize and compare scientific theories and research results, especially minority opinions or unpublished hypothesis.
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Events
Evolutionary Analyses of New-Generation Sequencing Data
Speaker: Rasmuss Nielsen
University of California, Berkeley
Date: January 12, 2012
Time: 4 PM
Location: University of Chicago,
Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery
1st Floor Auditorium, Room 1103
900 E. 57th Street
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