March 23, 2021 Kyle Akers receives an “Honorable Mention” from the National Science Foundation for his graduate research fellowship application.
2020
October 21, 2020, Jeffrey N. Law defends his Ph.D. on Development and Application of Network Algorithms for Prediction of Gene Function and Response to Viral Infection and Chemicals. He is joining the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as a post-doctoral fellow.
August 13, 2020, Tanya Tyagi defends her M.S. research on Benchmarking Methods For Predicting Phenotype Gene Associations. His next position is at Amazon.
August 13, 2020, Dhruva Sahasrabudhe defends his M.S. research on A Multimodal Graph Convolutional Approach to Predict Genes Associated with Rare Genetic Diseases. His next position is at Amazon.
July 29, 2020, Aditya Bharadwaj defends his doctoral research on Mixed-initiative methods for following design guidelines in creative tasks. He will be joining B12 Solutions.
June 18, 2020, Aditya Pratapa defends his Ph.D. thesis on Algorithms for regulatory network inference and experiment planning in systems biology. Next stop: a post-doctoral position at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.
May 12, 2020, Amogh Jalihal defends his Ph.D. thesis on Mathematical modeling of macronutrient signaling in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. He will be joining the Department of Systems Biology at the Harvard Medical School as a post-doctoral fellow.
April 30, 2020 Aditya Pratapa received the “Ph.D. Student of the Year” award from the Department of Computer Science.
December 10, 2018Aditya Bharadwaj successfully completes his preliminary examination.
September 1, 2018, Murali is part of a group that has received a grant from the NSF’s Molecular and Cellular Biology program to study host-microbiome-pathogen interactions in the honeybee. Lisa Belden in the Department of Biological Sciences is the PI of this four-year $960,000 award.
August 14, 2018, Mitch Wagner defends his Master’s thesis on “Reconstructing Signaling Pathways Using Regular-Language Constrained Paths.”
May 16, 2018, Aditya Pratapa successfully completes his Ph.D. preliminary examination.
Apr 25, 2018, Jahan Daniyal selected as a 2018 Google Summer of Code student to work on the “GraphSpace: Git for Graphs” project.
2017
December 9, 2017, Aditya Pratapa wins the first position in the Multiple Myeloma DREAM Challenge for predicting clinical progression using DNA-based features.
May 25, 2016, The National Science Foundation awards John Kececioglu and T. M. Murali a three-year grant on “Cell Signaling Hypergraphs: Algorithms and Applications”. This project will develop a new representation called signaling hypergraphs that naturally describes the relationships between multiple groups of proteins as complexes, reactants, products, and regulators. The project will also develop novel algorithms for fundamental computational challenges in the analysis of signaling hypergraphs, and apply this new representation and these algorithms to widely-used databases of cellular reactions.
May 13, 2016, Sarah Sam graduates from Virginia Tech with majors in neuroscience and biological sciences. She will join the Ph.D. programme in Neuroscience at Caltech in Fall 2016, after spending the summer in our group working on XTalkDB.
September 25, 2015, Ahsanur Rahman defends his Ph.D. research on “Unstable Communities in Network Ensembles”. He will join the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh as an Assistant Professor.
Aug 1, 2015, Post-doctoral fellow Anna Ritz starts as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Reed College.
May 15, 2015, Nick Sharp graduates from Virginia Tech with majors in computer science, engineering physics, and mathematics. He will join the Ph.D. programme in Computer Science at CMU in Fall 2015, after spending his summer at Facebook/Oculus.
May 15, 2015, Peter Burnham graduates from Virginia Tech in biochemistry. He will join the Ph.D. programme in Molecular Microbiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas in Fall 2015.
May 15, 2015, Brendan Avent graduates from Virginia Tech with majors in computer science, economics, mathematics, and statistics. He will join the Ph.D. programme in Computer Science at the University of Southern California in Fall 2015, after spending his summer at Facebook.
July 11, 2014, Anna Ritz wins the second place for her poster in the NetBio SIG meeting at ISMB 2014.
April 25, 2014, The Department of Computer Science selects Chris Poirel as the recipient of the Outstanding Research by a PhD Student award for 2013-2014.
2013
December 20, 2013, Chris Poirel selected as the student speaker at the Fall 2013 Graduate Student Commencement ceremonies.
December 14, 2013, The American Society of Cell Biology created a video on computational cell biology research at Virginia Tech including our group’s collaboration with John Tyson. Murali talks about our research around 3 minutes into the video. The video also features shots of GraphSpace and networks computed by LINKER.
December 4, 2013, Ahsanur Rahman successfully completes his Ph.D. preliminary examination.
April 30, 2012, Murali receives the College of Engineering Faculty Fellow award.
April 6, 2012, Chris Poirel successfully completes his Ph.D. preliminary examination.
March 27, 2012, Yared Kidane defends his Ph.D. research on “The landscape of host transcriptional response programs commonly perturbed by infectious pathogens: towards host-oriented broad-spectrum drug targets”.
March 1, 2012, Computer, the flagship journal of the IEEE Computer Society, publishes a special issue on Computationally Driven Experimental Biology guest edited by Murali.
February 6, 2012, the Virginia Tech Graduate School selects the Computational Tissue Engineering (CTE) interdisciplinary graduate education program (IGEP) for funding. Our collaborator Padma Rajagopalan directs this IGEP. Murali is one of its members. The goal of the CTE IGEP is to fruitfully exploit the natural synergy between tissue engineering and systems biology to define a new synthesis of these area, using the computational sciences as the driving force.
September 11, 2011, Chris Lasher defends his Ph.D. research on “Discovering contextual connections between biological processes using high-throughput data”.
July 8, 2011, Yared Kidane receives a Dissertation Fellowship Award from the Southern Regional Education Board.
June 1, 2011, NSF’s Advances in Bioinformatics program awards Murali, Padma Rajagopalan, and Rich Helm a grant to study intercellular signaling in liver mimics. The Collegiate Times carried an article about this project.
July 1, 2010, ICTAS Center for Systems Biology of Engineered Tissues formed. Murali is the co-director of the center. The goal of the center is to develop integrated computational and experimental models of bioengineered tissues by defining a synthesis between systems biology and tissue engineering.
May 10, 2010, Chris Lasher successfully completes his Ph.D. preliminary examination.
April 4, 2010, Chris Poirel is awarded the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship.
March 11, 2010, Jacqueline Addessa is awarded a 10-week Summer Research Fellowship by the Fralin Life Sciences Institute. She will develop algorithms to compute similarities and differences between cellular reponse networks.
July 2009, Murali is a member of the programme committee for ISMB/ECCB 2009.
March 2009, the Virginia Tech Graduate School selects former Ph.D. student Matt Dyer for the “Outstanding Dissertation in Science and Engineering” award.
August 2008, Murali teaches an invited week-long course on Computational Systems Biology at the Chalmers Graduate School of Bioscience, Chalmers University, Sweden.
April 2005, Murali receives the Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Assistant Professor from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech.
2004
Murali receives a two year faculty fellowship from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) and the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. He will use this fellowship to collaborate with Brett Tyler and Allan Dickerman at VBI.