Selected Unusual Projects by Members of the Laboratory
“The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation” — Bertrand Russell
“If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” — Maya Angelou –
Selected Unusual Projects by Current and Former Members or close collaborators of the Laboratory/Group
Simon Kasif: Artificial Tikkun Olam Perspective:
We are fully committed to deploying AI responsibly and safely in the service of social justice, inclusion, fairness, reducing social inequalities and diversity.
Stan Letovsky and his collaborators participate in the very important sharing cancer mutation data project
Jonathan and Hui in Nature
Alfred Ramirez wins best graduate student paper of the year with his paper in Cell Reports.
Kamila Naxerova in Science following up on a heroic project she started and led in her PhD thesis tracing cancer lineage
Esther Rheinbay in Nature with Gad Getz and other collaborators at the Broad
Andy’s AI2MED company is sold. Mazal Tov.
COMBREX perspective (Not All Experiments are Created Equal) is deposited in bioarchive (this is an old paper, first submission to Science October 2011)
Jonathan and Hui in Cell Metabolism
Congratulations to Jonathan, Hui and Alfred for their publication in Nature Communication
Congratulations to Jonathan Dreyfuss for his publication in Nature
Many people had this idea, but so far very little movement in this direction.
Our COMBREX paper is accepted in the Annual DB Issue edited by Michael Galperin. The first database paper (to our knowledge) that includes “Knowledge Gaps…”
NAR-02923-Data-E-2015.R1
COMBREX-DB: “An Experiment-Centered Database Of Protein Function: Knowledge, Predictions and Knowledge Gaps” Chang, Yi-Chien; Hu, Zhenjun; Rachlin, John; Anton, Brian; Kasif, Simon.; Roberts, Rich; Steffen, Martin
We participate in the “Computation as a Driver for Translational Medicine” in Sicily
Tarjei Mikkelsen (former intern, another gem)
Precision Medicine Symposium: Patient Driven
Esther (former joint student with Brad Bernstein) in NEJM
Andy McMurry submits a final copy of his PhD thesis on Distributed Mining of Electronic Health Records to graduate school !
Chris Nogiec paper is selected as Cover in Molecular Metabolism.
Andy McMurry successfully defends his thesis on Distributed Medical Record Data Mining. Very early work on Federated Medical Health Records. Andy recently joined a start-up in California and it just went public.
Harvard Medical School announces the formation of a new Medical Informatics Department
Michael Molla helps analyze insulin resistance in iPS cells
Paul Erdos — Noga Alon — {Simon Kasif ,Charles Cantor}
Our paper (link below) has two parts, one developed by Vera Asodi during her graduate work with Noga Alon and one developed by John Rachlin during his graduate work with Simon Kasif, Charles Cantor and Shanqua Teng.
Kasif attends Columbia University Systems Biology Retreat/Advisory Board Meeting: In the picture he is trying to confuse Michael Waterman who is rarely confused.
Kamila Tracks Cancer Heterogeneity and Lineage
Clark Freifeld in Business Week
Clark in BU Engineering News After Receiving the Best Societal Impact Thesis Award
Esther Rheinbay and Mario Suva play Connect Four and Reprogram Cancer Stem Cells
Richard Park (co-advised by Peter Park, Harvard Med. School) is a finalist in the Illumina iDEA Challenge in 2011 with the Genome Browser Richard co-developed in Peter Park’s group.
Chris challenges the Supplements Myths
Scott Weiss (former JHU graduate student) breaks Jeopardy
Scott Weiss makes Jeopardy history
Michael Molla in PNAS (with Art Delcher, Charles Cantor, and Shamil Sunyaev)
Kamila in Children’s Hospital News
Martin Steffen in Science Daily
Protein Phosphorylation Cancer Biomarkers
Kasif describes Network Signatures of Disease (Technion)
Kasif describes Biological Network Anomaly and Signatures of Disease (Tufts)
Lewis Stiller in Scientific American
