bioinformatics | CBRC | Computational Bioscience Research Center

Robert Hoehndorf

Interim Associate Director, Computational Bioscience Research Center

Professors

Xin Gao

Acting Director, Computational Bioscience Research Center

Professors

Katsuhiko Mineta

Principal Research Scientist, Comparative Genomics and Genetics

Research Staff

Magbubah Essack

Research Scientist, Knowledge Mining Lab

Research Staff

Senay Kafkas

Research Scientist, Bio-Ontology Research Group

Research Staff

Bin Zhang

Postdoctoral Fellow, Computational Bioscience Research Center

Postdoctoral Fellows

Reshmi Ramakrishnan

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Structural Biology and Engineering

Postdoctoral Fellows

Abdullah Aldehaiman

PhD Student, Bioscience

Students

Ayman Farran

MS Student, Comparative Genomics and Genetics

Students

Gian Marco Messa

PhD Student, Computer Science

Students

Haoyang Li

PhD Student, Computer Science

Students

Karla Angélica Peña Guerra

MS Student, Structural Biology and Engineering

Students

CEMSE BESE CBRC STRUBE Kelly Cardona Londoño P.hD

Kelly J. Cardona Londoño

PhD Student, Structural Biology and Engineering

Students

Kexin Niu

PhD Student, Bioengineering

Students

KAUST CEMSE CBRC BORG CS Nurul Muttakin master student .JPG

MD Nurul Muttakin

MS/PhD Student, Computer Science

Students

Rund Tawfiq

PhD Student, Bioengineering

Students

Somayah Albaradei

Alumni, Computer Science

Students

Wenjia He

MS/PhD Student, Structural and Functional Bioinformatics Group

Students

Wenkai Han

PhD Student, Computer Science

Students

Xiaopeng Xu

PhD Student, Computer Science

Students

Yang Liu

PhD Student, Computer Science

Students

Yongkang Long

PhD Student, Computer Science

Students

Zhongxiao Li

PhD Student, Computer Science

Students

Maha Thafar

PhD Student, Computer Science

Alumni

Maxat Kulmanov

Research Scientist, Bio-Ontology Research Group

Research Staff

Othman Soufan

PhD Degree, Computer Science

Alumni

Sara Althubaiti

PhD Student, Computer Science

Alumni

KAUST CEMSE CBRC BORG MS Student Shahad Qatan.JPG

Shahad Qathan

MS Student, Computer Science

Alumni

Siqing Hou

MS Degree, Computer Science

Alumni

Trisevgeni Rapakoulia

PhD Degree, Computer Science

Alumni

Vasiliki Kordopati

Master Degree, Computer Science

Alumni

Yu Li

PhD Student, Computer Science

Alumni

Abdullah Muhammad Kamal

Visiting Student, Computer Science

Former Members

Luke Slater

PhD Student, Computer Science

Former Members

Peng Yang

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Structural and Functional Bioinformatics Group

Former Members

Renmin Han

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Structural and Functional Bioinformatics Group

Former Members

Sheng Wang

Research Scientist, Structural and Functional Bioinformatics Group

Former Members

Tilman Hinnerichs

Visiting Student, Bio-Ontology Research Group

Former Members

Boris Jankovic

Senior Computational Scientist, Knowledge Mining Lab

Computational Specialists

Bio-Hackathon MENA 2023

Tuesday, February 07, 08:00

- 17:00

KAUST Hotel

Competition

Capturing Actionable Dynamics with Structured Latent Ordinary Differential Equations

Ricardo Henao

Prof. Ricardo Henao, Associate Professor, BESE Division, KAUST

Wednesday, February 01, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5220

bioinformatics

Seminar

InCoB2022-KAUST-announcement with QR code

The 21st International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB2022)

Computational Bioscience Research Center

Monday, November 21, 09:00

- 17:00

Virtual

bioinformatics

Research Conference

Population genomics of indigenous inhabitants in Arabian Peninsula

Katsuhiko Mineta

Monday, April 11, 11:00

- 12:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/95586142868

Seminar

Omics-based Metastasis Prediction using Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Somayah Albaradei

Wednesday, March 30, 14:00

- 15:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98007745127

PhD Dissertation Defense

Knowledge-based methods in life sciences

Robert Hoehndorf

Tuesday, March 03, 10:00

- 11:30

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 2, Room 2325

Public Colloquium

Zero in on computational challenges in Nanopore sequencing

Xin Gao

Monday, September 02, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1

Graduate Seminar

CBRC hosts the Saudi Society of Medical Genetics (SSMG) Conference 2019

Takashi Gojobori

Dr. Saleh AlGhamdi, The Saudi Society of Medical Genetics (SSMG)

Monday, April 15, 08:00

- 17:00

Building 19, Hall 1 & 2

Scientific Conference

AI4GH Seminar Series - Towards Rational Design of Biosynthesis Pathways

Meshari Alazmi

Sunday, November 11, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 2 Room 5220

Seminar

AI4GH Seminar Series - Towards Rational Design of Biosynthesis Pathways

Meshari Alazmi

Sunday, November 11, 12:00

- 13:00

B2, Room 5220

Seminar

AI4GH Seminar Series - Genome-scale Regression Analysis Reveals a Linear Relationship for Promoters and Enhancers After Combinatorial Drug Treatment

Trisevgeni Rapakoulia

Wednesday, November 07, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 2 Room 5220

Seminar

Variant Prioritization in Cancer: Understanding and Prediction of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations

Sara Althubaiti

Monday, November 05, 10:30

- 12:30

Building 3, Room 5209

Master Thesis Defense

Contributions to Computational Methods for Association Extraction from Biomedical Data: Applications to Text Mining and In Silico Toxicology

Thursday, November 01, 11:00

- 13:00

Building 2, Level 5, room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

VSIM: Visualization and Simulation of Genomes for Premarital Testing

Azza Althagafi

Thursday, November 01, 08:00

- 10:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

Master Thesis Defense

KAUST CEMSE CS BORG Visualization and Simulation of Genomes

AI4GH Seminar Series - VSIM: Visualization and Simulation of Genomes for Premarital Testing

Azza Althagafi

Wednesday, October 31, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 2 Room 5220

Seminar

Towards rational design of biosynthesis pathways

Meshari Alazmi

Wednesday, October 24, 17:00

- 18:30

Building3, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

KAUST CEMSE CS BORG Machine Learning with Biological Knowledge Graphs

AI4GH Seminar Series - Machine Learning with Biological Knowledge Graphs

Mona Alshahrani

Wednesday, October 24, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 2, Room 5220

Seminar

AI4GH Seminar Series - Variant Prioritization in Cancer: Understanding and Prediction of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations

Wednesday, October 17, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 2, Room 5220

Seminar

AI4GH Seminar Series| Artificial Intelligence for Genomics and Health: Introduction and Overview

Robert Hoehndorf

Wednesday, October 03, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 2, Room 5220

Seminar

Neural Inductive Matrix Factorization for Predicting Disease-Gene Associations

Siqing Hou

Wednesday, April 18, 10:00

- 11:30

Building 3, Room 5208

Master Thesis Defense

KAUST CEMSE CBRC CS PhD Defense Rawan Olayan

Novel Computational Methods to Predict Drug–target Interactions Using Graph Mining and Machine Learning Approaches

Monday, December 11, 10:00

- 12:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

KAUST CEMSE CS Sensors PhD Defense Manal Kalkatawi

Contributions to In Silico Genome Annotation

Thursday, November 09, 10:00

- 13:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

KAUST CEMSE CBRC STAT Seminar Dr Zhi LIU

Testing for Equality of Distributions Using Empirical Likelihood Approach

Dr. Zhi LIU, Assistant Professor in Department of Mathematic of University of Macau, China

Wednesday, November 01, 14:00

- 15:00

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5209

Seminar

Endosymbiotic Origin and Differential Loss of Eukaryotic Genes

Prof. Dr. William Martin, Institute of Molecular Evolution Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany

Tuesday, May 23, 11:00

- 12:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

Seminar

KAUST CEMSE CS PhD Defense Arturo Magana Mora

Genetic Algorithms for Optimization of Machine-learning Models and their Applications in Bioinformatics

Monday, April 10, 13:00

- 15:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Novel Computational Methods that Facilitate Development of Cyanofactories for Free Fatty Acid Production by Olaa Motwalli

Olaa A. Motwalli

Sunday, April 09, 16:00

- 17:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

KAUST CEMSE CBRC Workshop Python for Biologists

Advanced Python for Biologists

Sunday, March 19, 09:00

- 16:30

Building 9 - Level 2 - Room 2223

Workshop

At the root, cancer is probably about fighting to maintain the intracellular pH stability：cancer research through data mining and modeling

Prof. Ying Xu, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar of Bioinformatics

Monday, March 06, 11:30

- 13:00

Building 4 - Level 5 - Room 5209

Seminar

KAUST CEMSE CBRC WASEDA AIST Joint Workshop Big Data Analysis and Single Cell

KAUST-AIST-WASEDA Joint Workshop

Wednesday, March 01, 13:30

- 15:15

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5220 (KCC side)

Workshop

Evolution and Regulation of Gene Expression

Dr. Chen Wei, Chair professor, Department of Biology, Southern University of Science and Technology of China

Sunday, January 22, 11:30

- 12:30

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5220 (KCC side)

Seminar

KAUST-CEMSE-CBRC-MS-defense-Nurul-muttakin

MS Thesis Defense | Learning 3D structures for protein function prediction

3 weeks 4 days ago

Alumni in focus: Somayah Al-Baradei

4 months 3 weeks ago

KAUST alumnus named in Forbes' “30 Under 30 Asia list” – Class of 2022

11 months 3 weeks ago

Population genomics of indigenous inhabitants in Arabian Peninsula

1 year ago

CBRC's Alumni Dr.Tanvir Alam wins top researcher award in Qatar

1 year 1 month ago

Ph.D. Defense: Omics-based Metastasis Prediction using Machine Learning and Deep Learning by Somayah Albaradei

1 year 1 month ago

bioinformatics

MS Thesis Defense: Rare variant collapsing analysis on UK Biobank by Yang Liu

1 year 2 months ago

FEBS Open Bio chat with Professor Takashi Gojobori

1 year 4 months ago

Aryam Alotaibi SRSI Student CEMSE CBRC SFB

CBRC congratulates Aryam Alotaibi a SRSI student on winning the top paper Award

1 year 10 months ago

Xin Gao promoted to rank of professor

2 years 4 months ago

Talented KAUST Ph.D. student aims to revolutionize healthcare with machine learning

2 years 6 months ago

Robert Hoehndorf promoted to associate professor at KAUST

2 years 11 months ago

KAUST CEMSE CS BORG CBRC Robert Hoehndorf

KAUST Assistant Professor Robert Hoehndorf gives a talk on " Artificial intelligence for Genomics and Health"

4 years 2 months ago

KAUST CEMSE CBRC Sara Althubaiti Master Defense

Sara Althubaiti defends her Master's thesis

4 years 6 months ago

KAUST CEMSE CS Azza Althagafi Masters Defense

Azza Althagafi defends her Master's thesis

4 years 7 months ago

CEMSE CS CBRC Meshari Alazmi PhD Defense

Meshari Alazmi defends his Ph.D. thesis

4 years 7 months ago

CEMSE CS Xin Gao With Structural Biologist Stefan Arold

Computing solutions for biological problems

4 years 7 months ago

KAUST AMCS CBRC KML Knowledge Mining Lab Group

Knowledge Mining Lab website is now online

4 years 7 months ago

KAUST CEMSE CS CBRC Maxat Kulmanov Thesis Proposal Defense

Maxat Kulmanov defends his thesis proposal

4 years 10 months ago

KAUST CEMSE CS CBRC BESE SFB Meshari Alazami Thesis Proposal

Meshari Alazami defends his thesis proposal

5 years ago

KAUST CBRC BESE B STRUBE Miriam Escarlet Diaz Galicia

Miriam Escarlet Diaz Galicia defends her master's thesis

5 years ago

Sarah Alghamdi defends her master's thesis

5 years ago

KAUST CEMSE CS CBRC SFB Siqing Hou Masters Defense

Siqing Hou defends his Master’s thesis

5 years 1 month ago

Alumni Feature: Abdullah Khamis

5 years 1 month ago

CBRC awarded three Center Partnership Funds

5 years 1 month ago

Class of 2017

5 years 5 months ago

KAUST CEMSE CBRC Robert Hoehndorf Discussion On Artificial Intelligence

Discussion on artificial intelligence in 2001: A Space Odyssey

5 years 7 months ago

Professor Zhi Liu gives a seminar on testing for equality of distributions

5 years 7 months ago

CEMSE CBRC Haitham Ashoor Vladimir Bajic Olaa Motwalli Arturo Magana Mora

The Ph.D. journey

6 years ago

Student life: studying and working at the Computational Bioscience Research Center (KAUST)

6 years ago

KAUST CEMSE CBRC Zhihao Xia Visiting Student

Living and Working in KAUST as a VSRP or Visiting Student

6 years 1 month ago

Researching cancer through data mining and modeling

6 years 2 months ago

Japanese institutes hold joint workshop with CBRC

6 years 2 months ago

KAUST CEMSE CBRC AMCS BESE B CS KML CBRC Director Vladimir Bajic Presenting The Research Done By Center

Swedish delegation visits KAUST

6 years 3 months ago

Professor Robert Hoehndorf's PhenomeNET method wins at Ontology matching workshop

6 years 7 months ago

Science in Focus

6 years 8 months ago

KAUST CEMSE CBRC Katsuhiko Mineta John Archer Vladimir Bajic Takashi Gojobori

CBRC Goes to Ofunato

6 years 9 months ago

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6 years 10 months ago

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6 years 10 months ago

Prof. Xin Gao Promoted to Associate Professor

6 years 11 months ago

Python for Biologists Workshop

7 years ago

Prof. Vladimir Bajic, Guest Co-editor of the GBP special issue

7 years 8 months ago

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