News and Announcements

~ SPRING 2012 ~

CONGRATULATIONS!

- MCB Professors Frank Alber, Liang Chen and Andrew Smith who have been awarded research grants from the National Institutes of Health to develop computational methods to study biological processes in cells.

*Read the DornsifeLife article by Laurie Moore - 3/1/12 - "Analyzing Life on a Molecular Level"

http://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/1111/analyzing-life-on-a-molecular-level/

- MCB Professor, Michael Waterman elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

MCB News & Happenings:

Joint Seminar Hosted and Sponsored by: Molecular and Computational Biology and the Department of Chemistry in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, USC Provost Office, and the W.i.S.E. Program

Ada Yonath - 2009 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

"What was First��the Genetic Code or its Products?"

*Read the DornsifeLife article by Robert Perkins and Ambrosia Brody - 3/2/12 - "Nobel Laureate Visits USC, Inspires Students"

http://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/1112/nobel-laureate-visits-usc-inspires-students/

30 Years of Computational Biology!

Symposium celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Computational Biology and the birthdays of Comp Bio's "founding father", Michael Waterman and Professor, Simon Tavar��.

March 30-April 1, 2012 at the Davidson Conference Center.

http://www.cmb.usc.edu/30Years/

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*MCB Graduate Student Association

http://sites.google.com/site/uscmcbgsa/