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2008
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BioMoDeL Participation in
Undergraduate Research Conference
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Bioengineering senior Alex Cheung and
bioengineering/biology senior Homero Vazquez
participated in SCCUR 2008. This is the annual Southern California Conference
for Undergraduate Research. Alex and Homero gave
oral presentations on their active research projects. The event was hosted by
Cal State, Pomona University on November 22, 2008.
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BioMoDeL Cluster Arrived
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The
new BioMoDel LINUX cluster has arrived. This is a
Penguin 10-node cluster with an Altus 2650SA master node and 10 Altus 650 compute nodes with dual AMD Opteron processors,
Gigabit ethernet, and InfiniBand
interconnect technology.
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BioMoDeL participates in Annual Fall Meeting of
the Biomedical Engineering Society
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Graduate
students Chris Kieslich and Aliana
Lopez De Victoria and Professor Dimitrios Morikis
participated in the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering
Society, which took place in St
Louis, MO,
in October 1-4,
2008. Chris and Aliana
presented posters of their work and Professor Morikis gave an oral
presentation.
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BioMoDeL Students participated in BIC Conference
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Graduate
students Aliana Lopez De Victoria and Chris Kieslich and undergraduate student Alex Cheung presented
their research at the 9th UC Systemwide
Bioengineering Symposium, organized by our Bioengineering Department at UCR on June
20-22, 2008.
This is the annual conference of the Bioengineering Institute of California,
a multicampus reseacrh
unit (MRU). Chris gave a podium presentation and Aliana
and Alex gave presented posters at the Biocomputation,
In Silico & Biosystems
Modeling tracks. Dr. Morikis was the Chair of the Scientific Program
Subcommittee and chaired the Biocomputation, In Silico & Biosystems
Modeling and New Frontiers tracks.
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Five undergraduate students join BioMoDeL for summer research experience
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Recent
graduate Gabrielle Goodman and undergraduate students Yianni
Mountziaris, Nic Novak,
Chelsea Vandegrift, and Homero
Vazquez will be gaining research expereince at BioMoDeL during the summer. Gabrielle is a 2008 UCR Bioengineering graduate; Yianni is a sophomore majoring in Molecular Biology at Princeton University; Nic
is a junior majoring in Neuroscience at Oberlin College; Chelsea is a sophomore majoring in
Chemistry at University of Dallas; and Homero
is a senior majoring in Bioengineering and Biology at UCR. Yianni
and Nic are participant in
the BRITE program, sponsored by an NSF REU (Research Experience for
Undergraduates) grant to UCR's Bioengineering Department. Homero is participant in UCR's Medical Scholars Program.
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Graduate Student Chris Kieslich
received Best TA Award
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Bioengineering
Graduate Student and BioMoDeL researcher Chris Kieslich received the Bioengineering 2007-2008 Best
Teaching Assistant Award. Chris was nominated by the Bioengineering
Department and the award is based on student and faculty evaluations.
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Undergraduate Student Alex Cheung publishes paper
in the UCR Undergraduate Research Journal
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Undergraduate
student Alex Cheung published his first research paper at the UCR Undergraduate Research Journal. The title of his paper is Computational
Prediction of Association Free Energies for the C3d-CR2 Complex and
Comparison to Experimental Data. The paper is co-authored by BioMoDeL alumnus Jianfeng Yang,
graduate student Chris Kieslich, and Prof. Morikis.
Alex has been a researcher at BioMoDel since the
Fall Quarter of his freshman year and has been involved in several research
projects.
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Professor Morikis elected Fellow of the American
Institute of Biomedical Engineering
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Prodessor Morikis has been elected a Fellow of the American
Institute of Biomedical Engineering (AIMBE). The induction ceremony for the
2008 Class of the College Fellows took place in Washington DC on February 21-23. The AIMBE
College of Fellows is the leading advocacy group for medical and biological
engineering. It is comprised of 1,000 individuals who are the in the top two
percent of the organization’s medical and biological engineering community.
These are outstanding bioengineers in academia, industry and government that
have distinguished themselves through their contributions in research,
industrial practice and/or education. They are nominated and approved by
current Fellows, from across the U.S. and from other nations. The
citation for Professor Morikis contributions reads: "for developing a
rational set of molecular-based methods for the prediction of the behavior of
immune system proteins, regulators, and inhibitors". This is the
second distinction for Professor Morikis in the last two years, after
becoming a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
in 2006. The photo shows Professor Morikis (r) with Bioengineering Professor
Bagman Anvari (l) and Chemical and Environmental
Engineering Professor Ashok Muchaldani
(m), after the ceremony.
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