Another great day in the Shehu lab, June 13! Taseef defended his PhD dissertation and is now Dr. Rahman. Congratulations to Dr. Rahman! He is now embarking on his academic career and heading to the University of South Florida.

Another great day, April 28th! Fardina defended her PhD dissertation and is now Dr. Alam. Congratulations to Dr. Alam! You will do great things at UMD College Park as you embark on your academic career.

April 24th has turned out to be a great day! Parastoo passed her PhD dissertation defense in flying colors. A new Dr. has been added to the lab. Congratulations, Dr. Kamranfar! It has been a pleasure and a joy having you around, and we hope you do not go very far from us.

Congratulations to Tatiana. She won the oustanding presentation prize for her presentation of "A Sampling-based Algorithm for Modeling Protein Conformational Switching" at SIG3D at ISMB 2016.

The review paper by Maximova, Moffatt, Ma, Nussinov, and Shehu, just published on the April issue of PLoS Comp Biol 2016 has also been featured on the front cover . The paper will also be featued on the PLOC blog.

Congratulations to Daniel Veltri, who defended his Ph.D. yesterday, December 1, 2015.

For PLOS Computational Biology, that is, to celebrate the journal's tenth anniversary with a special collection on macromolecular structure and dynamics. The collection is co-edited by Amarda and the journal's EIC, Dr. Ruth Nussinov. Here are links to the the blog and to the collection .

Our PLOS Comp Biol paper is finally out, here .

Mason 2014 rising stars in Vanity Fair style photo.

Congratulations to Kevin. He has received the CS Oustanding Graduate Student Award. This now makes two Ph.D. students in the lab that have received such awards.

Kevin successfully defended his Ph.D thesis today, on January 13, 2015.

A nice feature on all 2014 awardees, including Amarda, appears here . Research profiles of awardees are featured here .

Congratulations to both Mazyar and Songuye. They have received OSCAR URSP awards for research in our lab for Spring 2015.

Congratulations to Daniel Veltri. His paper on "Improved Prediction of Antimicrobial Peptides Through Distal Sequence-based Features," with authors Daniel Veltri, Uday Kamath, and Amarda Shehu, has won the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE BIBM 2014, Belfast, UK.

Rohan Pandit and Pranay Singh, two Thomas Jefferson high-schoolers who worked with Dr. Shehu during Summer 2014 to prepare a research report for the Siemens competition, have made it to the semifinalist round (top 300 in the nation). Here is the list of semifinalists. We hope they will now make it to the regional finalist round (top 60 in nation), which will be announced soon, and eventually win the team category of the competition.

Daniel Veltri has received a student travel award from IEEE BIBM to go and present his paper "Improved Prediction of Antimicrobial Peptides Through Distal Sequence-based Features" to Belfast, UK.

This Mason-wide award is given annually to young scholars who are judged most likely to make significant contributions to their fields.

Congratulations to Irina. She has passed the comprehensive exam and the Ph.D. proposal exam. She is now on her way to a good Ph.D. thesis.