Honors and Awards

Christine Heitsch, a past CIBM postdoctoral fellow, has been awarded a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface, to start in 2005. Her research is on "Combinatorial and computational approach to deciphering the biological information encoded by single-stranded nucleotide sequences". For the announcement see: http://www.bwfund.org/programs/interfaces/career_grant_recipients.html. Our congratulations to Christine!

Lori Severtson, a CIBM postdoctoral fellow, was awarded 'best student paper' from the Risk Communication subgroup for a paper she submitted to Society for Risk Analysis 2004 Annual Meeting.

Aaron Darling, a CIBM predoctoral trainee, together with Wu Chun Feng of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, won a 2004 R&D 100 Award for mpiBLAST: "mpiBLAST: A high-speed software catalyst for genetic research". The on-line site for the R&D magazine describing the Life Sciences R&D awards can be accessed at:
http://www.rdmag.com/scripts/ShowPR.asp?PUBCODE=014&ACCT=1400000100&ISSUE=0409&RELTYPE=PR&PRODCODE=00000000&PRODLETT=Nh

The CIBM predoctoral trainees Mark Goadrich and Louis Oliphant received the "Best Student Paper Award" for their article "Learning Ensembles of First-Order Clauses for Recall-Precision Curves: A Case Study in Biomedical Information Extraction" at the 2004 Inductive Logic Programming Conference recently held in Porto, Portugal.  This award is sponsored by the journal Machine Learning and comes with a monetary prize. Their advisor, Professor Jude Shavlik, was the third author of this article.

Aaron Darling, a CIBM predoctoral trainee and Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Sciences, was awarded an ISMB Best Poster Award at the 10th Annual Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 2002. The conference was held from August 3 - 7th in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

You can view the poster abstract and a reduced version of the poster here:

• http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~darling/mauve/mauve_abstract.rtf (This file will not display in browser.)
• http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~darling/mauve/mauve_small.tif (This file will not display in browser.)

The award was given for the 10 best of 400 some odd posters and was decided by popular vote.

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