On March 1, KAUST held an open house for a group of professors, lecturers and students from Taif University, Department of Computer Science (Female Section). Part of their tour of KAUST included a visit to the CBRC labs, where representatives from three research groups talked about their research.
In July 2017, Associate Professor Taous Meriem Laleg Kirati joined the Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC). Her expertise in applied mathematics, control systems and signal analysis is a welcome addition to the interdisciplinary nature of the Center. Since joining CBRC, she has been closely working with other CBRC faculty to answer questions in the biological domain. Currently, she is collaborating with Professor Vladimir Bajic on developing novel computational methods for identification of genomic signals based on signal processing and machine learning.
CBRC Ph.D. graduate Arturo Magana Mora is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the prestigious National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Tokyo, Japan.
Shozo Yokoyama, the Asa G. Candler professor of biology at Emory University's Department of Biology, spoke with us on Facebook Live about the importance of the past in understanding the present and in making predictions about the future of species. Yokoyama was on KAUST campus as part of the research conference on Big Data Analyses in Evolutionary Biology, hosted by the Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC).
A team of researchers from KAUST and their collaborator from New York University in Abu Dabi developed a one-of-a-kind and comprehensive tomato knowledgebase called DES-Tomato. This project required an interdisciplinary approach between computational experts from KAUST’s Knowledge Mining Lab and plant science specialists from KAUST’s Salt Lab.
A group of students and faculty from Effat University visited the CBRC labs on September 25, 2018. The students, whose studies range from computer science, electrical and computer engineering and information systems, were introduced to the Structural Biology and Engineering Lab, Comparative Genomics and Genetics Lab, as well as the Microbial Technology Group Lab.
Ghofran Othoum successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation on February 5, 2018. Her project, "Genome-Scale Evaluation of the Biotechnological Potential of Red Sea Bacilli Strains" was well received by committee members Professor Vladimir Bajic (KAUST), Distinguished Professor Takashi Gojobori (KAUST), Associate Professor Mani Sarathy (KAUST) and Professor Alan Christoffels (South African National Bioinformatics Institute).
Recent advancements in evolutionary biology are greatly impacted by the production of massive "omics" data sets, such as genomes, transcriptomes, proteomes and metabolomics that are now available for evolutionary studies. The sheer size and complexity of this data requires the Big Data paradigm and approach essential in its analysis.
Genomes of single microbial cells isolated from the Red Sea could yield a goldmine for biotechnology.
The Red Sea has relatively low amounts of floating plastic debris in its surface waters due to fewer sources or faster removal.
Ph.D. and Master's students from the graduating class of 2017 celebrated the Commencement ceremony on December 15. CBRC would like to congratulate all the graduates, especially those from our center. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
Two students from the Bio-Ontology Research Group presented their research at KAUST Research Conference on Big Data Analyses in Evolutionary Biology.
All KAUST students with research in the field of evolutionary biology were invited to submit a poster for the student poster competition portion of the KAUST Research Conference on Big Data Analyses in Evolutionary Biology, held on December 4-6.
Judges were asked to choose the top three most novel and interesting posters. Additionally, CBRC also unveiled the new Audience Choice Award and invited all attendees of the conference to vote for their favorite poster. Winners were announced at the closing ceremony of the conference on December 6.
Professor Enhong Chen from the School of Computer Science of University of Science and Technology of China recently gave a talk titled, "Research and Application of Data Mining Technology for Intelligent Education."
Professor Minyi Guo, Zhiyuan Chair professor and head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in China gave a talk titled "Big Data for Urban Governance".