/news-archive/tag/midsouth-bioinformatics-center/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Thu, 23 Jul 2020 21:28:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2020/07/23/yang-nih-450000-grant/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 21:28:33 +0000 /news/?p=77255 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock receives nearly $450,000 to develop deep learning methods to identify cells that advance complex diseases]]> A University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor has received a $443,854 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop unique deep learning methods to identify key cell networks in complex diseases.聽 Dr. Mary Yang, professor of information science and director of the Midsouth Bioinformatics Center at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, will conduct research that will help doctors and scientists further understand how complex diseases evolve and develop in the body as well as how to identify effective drug targets. The three-year grant, 鈥淒evelop Novel Deep Learning and Combinatorial Optimization Methods to Identify Key Disease Regulatory Elements for Single-Cell Data,鈥� will be complete on July 30, 2023. In addition to its potential contributions to health research, the project will give students valuable experience in developing computational approaches to biomedical problems. 鈥淭he project will serve as a vehicle to equip undergraduate and graduate students with essential research skills and interdisciplinary knowledge and to stimulate the students鈥� ambition to pursue careers in biomedical science,鈥� Yang said.聽 Yang鈥檚 deep learning model focuses on developing high-resolution, single-cell genomic analytics techniques to capture cell differences with detail and clarity. By clearly characterizing cell differences, scientists can better identify cells that cause diseases to advance and evolve. This technique will allow more specialized, targeted treatments to different cells in the body.聽 Yang will supervise undergraduate students from different disciplines as well as graduate students in the joint 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock-糖心Vlog传媒MS Bioinformatics program during this project. She is collaborating with Dr. Sherman Weissman, a professor of genetics at the Yale University School of Medicine, who will provide experimental validation of the research models created at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock. The MidSouth Bioinformatics Center at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock provides extensive bioscience computational resources and training to faculty, staff, and students in the region.聽 Research reported was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R15GM137288. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.]]> /news-archive/2019/05/08/wolf-nsf-graduate-research-fellowship/ Wed, 08 May 2019 16:18:55 +0000 /news/?p=74240 ... Graduating student awarded prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship]]> A University of Arkansas at Little Rock senior has been selected as a 2019 recipient of. Scott Wolf, 19, of White Hall, Arkansas, will graduate May 11 with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics with minors in history and English. In the fall, Wolf is headed to New Jersey to pursue a Ph.D. in quantitative and computational biology from Princeton University. 鈥淓arning the NSF fellowship was a huge accomplishment,鈥� Wolf said. 鈥淚 had a lot of support from my professors to put together an application of that caliber.鈥� The fellowship provides Scott with three years of financial support within a five-year fellowship period through a $34,000 annual stipend and $12,000 cost-of-education allowance to the student鈥檚 graduate institution. The program recruits high-potential, early-career scientists and engineers and supports their graduate research training in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Launched in 1952 shortly after Congress established the National Science Foundation, the fellowship program represents the nation’s oldest continuous investment in the U.S. STEM workforce. Since he was homeschooled with his three brothers, Wolf began taking dual-enrollment classes at Southeast Arkansas College at age 14 and graduated high school at age 15. At 16, Wolf was attending 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock as a recipient of the Chancellor鈥檚 Academic Distinction Scholarship. 鈥溙切腣log传媒 Little Rock is close to home, and a bunch of people in my department have been able to utilize industry ties and take advantage of our connections with technology companies and other businesses in Little Rock,鈥� he said. 鈥淚鈥檝e had the opportunity to take advantage of coursework, research, and industry opportunities.鈥� While at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, Wolf鈥檚 work and research opportunities have included working as an undergraduate researcher in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and a tutor in the Mathematics Assistance Center. He has completed internships at Inuvo Inc. and Entergy. Wolf has also studied abroad three times. He spent the summer of 2016 studying at the Chinese Language Institute at Xiamen Huaxia University and has taken faculty-led trips to South Korea and China. Wolf discovered a love of bioinformatics while completing research in the Systems Genomics Laboratory at the MidSouth Bioinformatics Center with Dr. Mary Yang, the center鈥檚 director. 鈥淚 really appreciated the opportunity to do research in bioinformatics with Dr. Yang,鈥� he said. 鈥淲ithout her, I wouldn鈥檛 have any experience in the area. Learning how to interact in a lab was invaluable when it came to going to Princeton and moving forward with research.鈥� With a new interest in bioinformatics, Wolf sought out summer research opportunities and found the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University. Last summer, he conducted research at Princeton in quantitative and computational biology, the field he will now pursue as a doctoral student. 鈥淚 intend to explore how the fundamentals of mathematics, computer science, and statistics intersect with physiology, genomics, and neuroscience to give insight into complex biological systems,鈥� he said. 鈥淚 am particularly interested in how complex behavioral patterns can be quantified and how they emerge at the individual and group level.鈥� Looking back on his time at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, Wolf is thankful to professors who served as mentors in his academic pursuits as well as those who lifted his spirits in times of distress. 鈥淭here have been all kinds of people who have helped me at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock. You get research mentors who are critically important and community members, who aren鈥檛 formal mentors, but are there to talk to you and have some equity in you as a person,鈥� Wolf said. 鈥淪omeone like Dr. James Levernier from the English Department who goes out of the way to tell you to pursue your passion and take advantage of all the resources you can. When you are beaten down over a piece of research you can鈥檛 understand, they are there to sympathize with you. In the math department, there is a sense of community I haven鈥檛 seen elsewhere. I know the professors, and I can talk to them. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock has been a good community for me.鈥�]]> /news-archive/2017/09/11/information-science-bioinformatics-grant/ Mon, 11 Sep 2017 18:36:49 +0000 /news/?p=67867 ... Information Science Department receives over $260,000 to support 糖心Vlog传媒MS bioinformatics research program]]> The Department of Information Science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received more than $260,000 to continue its partnership with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (糖心Vlog传媒MS).聽 This partnership supports the Bioinformatics Core of the Arkansas IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) program. Awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), this grant is active for five years. The total funding for the five-year period is over $1.3 million. The Bioinformatics Core supports students, faculty, and researchers throughout the state and region with technology, education, training, and services related to biomedical research. Bioinformatics is a multidisciplinary field that focuses on the development of software, methods, and tools to interpret and analyze biological data such as genetic codes, proteins, and molecular structures. The Bioinformatics Core primarily supports the joint 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock/糖心Vlog传媒MS Graduate Program in Bioinformatics. The graduate program began officially in 2004 directly from Arkansas INBRE funding and offers two graduate degrees in bioinformatics. The Bioinformatics Core also supports activities of the MidSouth Bioinformatics Center at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock. 聽This center provides consulting services, computational resources, skills workshops, reference library, and online knowledge base to students, faculty, and researchers. The center also provides graduate assistantships. Some of these assistantships are sponsored by Arkansas INBRE, the College of Engineering and Information Technology, and the 糖心Vlog传媒MS College of Medicine. Additionally, the Bioinformatics Core supports undergraduate faculty researchers sponsored by Arkansas INBRE who concentrate on bioinformatics research. Dr. Elizabeth Pierce, chair of the Department of Information Science and principal investigator of the grant, is dedicated to providing opportunities to students in this field. “Today, more than ever, bioinformatics is critical for anyone interested in a career in the life sciences,鈥� Pierce said. 鈥淲hether it involves medicine, climate, environment, animals, plants, food, or forensics, these areas are generating genomic data at an astonishing rate. Helping people to master the tools and techniques for working with this massive bio data is a critical goal of this grant.” Through the Bioinformatics Core, the center provides technical and strategic support to the , a regional society founded by 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock professor Dr. Steve Jennings. Arkansas INBRE is funded by a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences under the NIH Institutional Development Award Program. This program was established to broaden the geographic distribution of NIH funding for biomedical and behavioral research. Currently, this program supports INBRE programs in 23 states and Puerto Rico.]]>