Congratulations to Kevin. He was selected among many applicants from both Europe and US to attend the Algorithms in Structural Bioinformatics Winter School , held December 2-7, 2012 on the French riviera, at Inria Sophia Antipolis. The school is sponsored by INRIA (http://www.inria.fr/), the CNRS/GDR Bioinformatique Moleculaire (http://www.gdr-bim.u-psud.fr/), and by SANOFI (http://en.sanofi.com/).

Congratulations to Irina. Her poster, entitled "Sampling Low-energy Protein-protein Configurations with Basin Hopping," won best poster prize at IEEE BIBM 2012.

Congratulations to Jennifer and Bryn. Their poster "Supersecondary Structure Motifs and De Novo Protein Structure Prediction" has been accepted at the 2012 Grace Hopper Conference in Baltimore.

Congratulations to Irina, who has received a graduate student travel fellowship from GMU.

Congratulations to Brian, who has received a graduate student travel fellowship from GMU.

Congratulations to Brian. He has been selected to receive a travel awarded by the IEEE Intl Conf on Biomed and Bioinf.

Amarda will give one of the five invited talks at ACM BCB on October 7 in Orlando, FL.

Congratulations to Sameh and Brian. Their paper, "A Population-based Evolutionary Algorithm for Sampling Minima in the Protein Energy Surface," has been accepted at the Comput Struct Biol Workshop (CSBW), co-located with IEEE BIBM 2012 in Philadelphia, PA. Moreover, this is the first paper in our lab with an undergraduate as first author.

Congratulations to Kevin. His paper, "A Robotics-inspired Method to Sample Conformational Paths Connecting Known Functionally-relevant Structures in Protein Systems," has been accepted at the Comput Struct Biol Workshop (CSBW), co-located with IEEE BIBM 2012 in Philadelphia, PA.

Congratulations to Kevin. His paper, "Biased Decoy Sampling to Aid the Selection of Near-Native Protein Conformations," has been accepted at ACM BCB, 2012.

Congratulations to Irina. Her paper, "A Basin Hopping Algorithm for Protein-Protein Docking," has been accepted as a short paper at IEEE BIBM, 2012.

Congratulations to Brian. His paper, "Efficient Basin Hopping in the Protein Energy Surface," has been accepted as a regular paper at IEEE BIBM, 2012.

Congratulations to Uday. His submission of the GP-based feature generation work with Amarda and Ken won honorable prize at Humies Competition, GECCO 2012, Philadelphia PA.

The submission by Uday, Kenneth and Amarda is a finalist for the Humies 2012 award.

Congratulations to Brian. He just passed his comprehensive exam.

Scott Jordan, a junior at Woodson high school will be joining our lab this Summer 2012 as an ASSIP fellow.

Niraja Bohidar, a freshman at Thomas Jefferson high school will be joining our lab Summer and Fall 2012.

The award recognizes junior faculty in the department of Computer Science for their research contributions and achievements.

Congratulations to Brian! He received the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award among the MS graduating class of 2012.

Congratulations to Sameh. He has been selected by a panel of 5 judges to given an oral presentation of his research at the College of Science Research Symposium on April 27, 2012. Sameh will also have his poster displayed at the symposium.