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Computational biologists at the University of Maryland are partnering with ophthalmologists from the renowned Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University to improve therapeutic options for people suffering from chronic ocular diseases.

The papers introduce new methods and tools to improve genome sequencing so that scientists can better study evolutionary trees, tumors and cancer.

He is the recipient of a $50,000 grant that will support his research on genetic ancestry.

Najib El-Sayed is leading a team that is using powerful sequencing tools to combat a painful, disfiguring parasitic skin condition.

Jason Fan’s current goal is to design small data-structures—or indexes—to support fast sequence queries against tens of human scale genomes, or tens of thousands of bacterial genomes.

In addition to his UMIACS appointment, he will be the first Brendan Iribe Endowed Professor in Computer Science.

Junior computer science major Ipsa Mittra presents research at SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference.

He will use the funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to improve upon a “constellation” of inter-related tools his lab has developed to process genomic data.

Professor Michael Cummings and others will analyze the synthetic process that goes into manufacturing antisense oligonucleotides—small pieces of DNA or RNA that can bind to specific molecules of RNA.

The 10 undergraduate students are part of an internship funded by NSF and run by faculty in CBCB.