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NSF Study will probe the Quintessence of
Surprise
Multi-institutional study investigates new digital understanding of
how brains perceive novelty and importance.
Information theorists, Pierre Baldi of UC Irvine and Laurent Itti of
USC are joining with electro physiologist, Douglas Muñoz of Queens University, Canada, on the study.
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Baldi’s 2002 publication – A Computational Theory of Surprise
Two IGB Faculties to be Honored
with Innovation Award on UCI’s 40th Anniversary
UCI Professors, Richard Lathrop, Department of Computer Science, and
G. Wesley Hatfield, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, will
be recognized for their unique entrepreneurial contributions at a November
9th ceremony honoring UCI’s most significant innovators.
The event is part of celebration activities surrounding UCI’s 40th
anniversary.
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IGB Post-doctoral Cancer
Researcher Secures Prestigious Appointments
Irvine, California, October, 2005, Chin-Rang Yang, a recent
postdoctoral alumnus of the Biomedical Informatics Training (BIT) Program
administered by the UCI Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics (IGB),
has accepted an appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Oncology of the Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of
Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He will also be awarded a joint
appointment in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Texas
at Dallas
and serve as a systems biology liaison between the medical school and the
UT Dallas campus.
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IGB awarded $1.8 million NIH
grant
Irvine, California, September 26, 2005, The
National Cancer Institute of the NIH has awarded a trio of IGB researchers
a grant to apply machine learning and experimental analyses to the
activities of the tumor-suppressing protein p53. Pierre Baldi, Rainer
Brachmann and Richard Lathrop expect to contribute key information for new
anti-cancer drugs.
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IGB Associate Director and DermTech
International Receive UC Discovery Grant
Irvine, California, June 23, 2005, DermTech International, an early-stage
biotechnology company developing skin sampling technologies, announced
receipt of a one-year UC Discovery Grant in the amount of $138,000 for
research with G. Wesley Hatfield, UCI Professor of Microbiology and
Molecular Genetics.
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IGB Technology Licensed to CODA
Genomics, Inc.
Irvine, California, April 27, 2005, Technology developed at the Institute for
Genomics and Bioinformatics (IGB) by Richard Lathrop and G. Wesley Hatfield
has been licensed under an exclusive agreement between the University of
California and CODA Genomics, a start-up company that will commercialize the
DNA assembly and protein expression optimization work developed by the two
IGB researchers.
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IGB Awarded $7 million to Advance
Biomedical Research
UC Irvine’s Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, has been
awarded four grants totaling nearly $7 million to further biomedical
computing research and improve educational training.
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Institute for Genomics and
Bioinformatics awarded $4.3 million
Irvine, California,
May 30, 2002, IGB has been awarded a $4.3 million multiyear training grant
from the National Institutes of
Health to consolidate current UCI bioinformatics
training programs into a comprehensive, campus-wide initiative.
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Tenure-Track Faculty Positions
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Project Scientist Position
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Postdoctoral Scholar Position
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