Computational & Systems Biology Dept. at Pitt
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Harnessing the power of computational & systems-level analyses to solve critical biological problems, and training the next generation of multidisciplinary scientists. Visit https://www.csb.pitt.edu/
Our department members had a frightfully fun time at the CSB Halloween party!
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Our department members had a frightfully fun time at the CSB Halloween party!
Whether he's in the classroom or in the sky, PhD student Swapnil Keshari is always aiming to achieve new heights.
After three years of hard work, Keshari earned his wings as a private pilot.
Read more: tinyurl.com/SwapnilPilot
After three years of hard work, Keshari earned his wings as a private pilot.
Read more: tinyurl.com/SwapnilPilot
October 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Whether he's in the classroom or in the sky, PhD student Swapnil Keshari is always aiming to achieve new heights.
After three years of hard work, Keshari earned his wings as a private pilot.
Read more: tinyurl.com/SwapnilPilot
After three years of hard work, Keshari earned his wings as a private pilot.
Read more: tinyurl.com/SwapnilPilot
Congratulations to Professor Jianhua Xing, who was awarded a grant from National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research!
This grant will support his research team's project on outcomes of head and neck cancer using system biology modeling with experimental validation.
This grant will support his research team's project on outcomes of head and neck cancer using system biology modeling with experimental validation.
October 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Congratulations to Professor Jianhua Xing, who was awarded a grant from National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research!
This grant will support his research team's project on outcomes of head and neck cancer using system biology modeling with experimental validation.
This grant will support his research team's project on outcomes of head and neck cancer using system biology modeling with experimental validation.
Calling all aspiring bioimaging specialists!
Chakra Chennubhotla, chief of AI at PredxBio, explains how he launched a career in spatial biology.
“A strong understanding of how to analyze biological images is becoming essential across the life sciences," he said.
Read more: tinyurl.com/ChakraCareer
Chakra Chennubhotla, chief of AI at PredxBio, explains how he launched a career in spatial biology.
“A strong understanding of how to analyze biological images is becoming essential across the life sciences," he said.
Read more: tinyurl.com/ChakraCareer
September 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Calling all aspiring bioimaging specialists!
Chakra Chennubhotla, chief of AI at PredxBio, explains how he launched a career in spatial biology.
“A strong understanding of how to analyze biological images is becoming essential across the life sciences," he said.
Read more: tinyurl.com/ChakraCareer
Chakra Chennubhotla, chief of AI at PredxBio, explains how he launched a career in spatial biology.
“A strong understanding of how to analyze biological images is becoming essential across the life sciences," he said.
Read more: tinyurl.com/ChakraCareer
Save the date for Pittsburgh Biological Physics Day on Tuesday, September 16!
Join us for a day of science featuring a keynote talk from Yuhai Tu of Flatiron Institute, lightning talks and poster presentations.
To register and learn more, visit: tinyurl.com/PittBioPhysics
Join us for a day of science featuring a keynote talk from Yuhai Tu of Flatiron Institute, lightning talks and poster presentations.
To register and learn more, visit: tinyurl.com/PittBioPhysics
August 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Save the date for Pittsburgh Biological Physics Day on Tuesday, September 16!
Join us for a day of science featuring a keynote talk from Yuhai Tu of Flatiron Institute, lightning talks and poster presentations.
To register and learn more, visit: tinyurl.com/PittBioPhysics
Join us for a day of science featuring a keynote talk from Yuhai Tu of Flatiron Institute, lightning talks and poster presentations.
To register and learn more, visit: tinyurl.com/PittBioPhysics
We had a great orientation yesterday with the new class of Computational Biomedicine and Biotechnology MS students!
We can't wait to see what you accomplish during your time at Pitt.
We can't wait to see what you accomplish during your time at Pitt.
August 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
We had a great orientation yesterday with the new class of Computational Biomedicine and Biotechnology MS students!
We can't wait to see what you accomplish during your time at Pitt.
We can't wait to see what you accomplish during your time at Pitt.
👏 Congratulations to PhD candidate Alison Guyer, who has been awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award!
This grant is awarded to promising predoctoral students and will fund Guyer's project titled "Morphogen signaling feedback and dynamics in embryonic patterning.”
This grant is awarded to promising predoctoral students and will fund Guyer's project titled "Morphogen signaling feedback and dynamics in embryonic patterning.”
August 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
👏 Congratulations to PhD candidate Alison Guyer, who has been awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award!
This grant is awarded to promising predoctoral students and will fund Guyer's project titled "Morphogen signaling feedback and dynamics in embryonic patterning.”
This grant is awarded to promising predoctoral students and will fund Guyer's project titled "Morphogen signaling feedback and dynamics in embryonic patterning.”
PhD student Akanksha Sachan has been awarded the Diana Jacobs Kalman/AFAR Scholarship for Research in the Biology of Aging. This scholarship will support Sachan's work in building machine learning methods to interpret cellular dynamics and reprogramming.
Read more: tinyurl.com/AkankshaSachan
Read more: tinyurl.com/AkankshaSachan
August 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
PhD student Akanksha Sachan has been awarded the Diana Jacobs Kalman/AFAR Scholarship for Research in the Biology of Aging. This scholarship will support Sachan's work in building machine learning methods to interpret cellular dynamics and reprogramming.
Read more: tinyurl.com/AkankshaSachan
Read more: tinyurl.com/AkankshaSachan
👏 Congratulations to PhD student Fareeda Abu-Juam, who has been selected to receive an ACM SIGHPC Computational & Data Science Fellowship!
This award recognizes potential research contributions in computational science or data science and leadership capabilities.
This award recognizes potential research contributions in computational science or data science and leadership capabilities.
August 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
👏 Congratulations to PhD student Fareeda Abu-Juam, who has been selected to receive an ACM SIGHPC Computational & Data Science Fellowship!
This award recognizes potential research contributions in computational science or data science and leadership capabilities.
This award recognizes potential research contributions in computational science or data science and leadership capabilities.
✨ That's a wrap on TECBio 2025!
Thank you to the amazing undergraduate students who spent 10 weeks at Pitt engaging in graduate-level research in computational biology.
Thank you to the amazing undergraduate students who spent 10 weeks at Pitt engaging in graduate-level research in computational biology.
July 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
✨ That's a wrap on TECBio 2025!
Thank you to the amazing undergraduate students who spent 10 weeks at Pitt engaging in graduate-level research in computational biology.
Thank you to the amazing undergraduate students who spent 10 weeks at Pitt engaging in graduate-level research in computational biology.
Mark your calendars for the 30th Annual SOM Graduate Student Research Symposium!
Join us in celebrating the research and scholarly achievements of graduate students across all School of Medicine programs.
Register here: tinyurl.com/SOMSymposium
#PittGradResearch #SOMSymposium2025
Join us in celebrating the research and scholarly achievements of graduate students across all School of Medicine programs.
Register here: tinyurl.com/SOMSymposium
#PittGradResearch #SOMSymposium2025
July 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Mark your calendars for the 30th Annual SOM Graduate Student Research Symposium!
Join us in celebrating the research and scholarly achievements of graduate students across all School of Medicine programs.
Register here: tinyurl.com/SOMSymposium
#PittGradResearch #SOMSymposium2025
Join us in celebrating the research and scholarly achievements of graduate students across all School of Medicine programs.
Register here: tinyurl.com/SOMSymposium
#PittGradResearch #SOMSymposium2025
Pitt virologists and computational biologists are combining their expertise to understand the replication cycle of a deadly mosquito-borne alphavirus. Read more about how they created a kinetic model of Eastern equine encephalitis virus.
🔗 tinyurl.com/EEEVModel
🔗 tinyurl.com/EEEVModel
July 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Pitt virologists and computational biologists are combining their expertise to understand the replication cycle of a deadly mosquito-borne alphavirus. Read more about how they created a kinetic model of Eastern equine encephalitis virus.
🔗 tinyurl.com/EEEVModel
🔗 tinyurl.com/EEEVModel
📚New course alert! Assistant Professor Shikhar Uttam has launched a new graduate-level course: Bioimaging, Analysis and Spatial Biology.
Students learn how imaging data are generated and analyzed to uncover biological insights.
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Read more: tinyurl.com/BioimagingAn...
Students learn how imaging data are generated and analyzed to uncover biological insights.
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Read more: tinyurl.com/BioimagingAn...
July 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
📚New course alert! Assistant Professor Shikhar Uttam has launched a new graduate-level course: Bioimaging, Analysis and Spatial Biology.
Students learn how imaging data are generated and analyzed to uncover biological insights.
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Read more: tinyurl.com/BioimagingAn...
Students learn how imaging data are generated and analyzed to uncover biological insights.
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Read more: tinyurl.com/BioimagingAn...
Congratulations to our graduates who attended the School of Medicine Class of 2025 Graduation yesterday! 🎓 💛
May 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Congratulations to our graduates who attended the School of Medicine Class of 2025 Graduation yesterday! 🎓 💛
PhD student Gaohan Yu delivered a talk at the American Physical Society Global Physics Summit. “It’s really opened my mind to see how a conference works, how I should present my work, and how I should advertise my work and myself. It’s a really good experience," he said.
🔗 tinyurl.com/GaohanYu
🔗 tinyurl.com/GaohanYu
April 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
PhD student Gaohan Yu delivered a talk at the American Physical Society Global Physics Summit. “It’s really opened my mind to see how a conference works, how I should present my work, and how I should advertise my work and myself. It’s a really good experience," he said.
🔗 tinyurl.com/GaohanYu
🔗 tinyurl.com/GaohanYu
Mark your calendars for the CSB Seminar Series on Monday, April 14!
Jian Zhou, Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, will deliver a talk titled "Decoding the sequence-basis of genome regulation."
The event will be held in BST3 room 6014 and on Zoom. We hope to see you there.
Jian Zhou, Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, will deliver a talk titled "Decoding the sequence-basis of genome regulation."
The event will be held in BST3 room 6014 and on Zoom. We hope to see you there.
April 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Mark your calendars for the CSB Seminar Series on Monday, April 14!
Jian Zhou, Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, will deliver a talk titled "Decoding the sequence-basis of genome regulation."
The event will be held in BST3 room 6014 and on Zoom. We hope to see you there.
Jian Zhou, Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, will deliver a talk titled "Decoding the sequence-basis of genome regulation."
The event will be held in BST3 room 6014 and on Zoom. We hope to see you there.
Postdoctoral associate Anuraag Bukkuri was recognized with the Scott H. Williamson Award from the Society for Modeling and Theory in Population Biology. This international award honors the achievements and promise of one outstanding early-career researcher. Congratulations!
tinyurl.com/AnuraagB
tinyurl.com/AnuraagB
April 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Postdoctoral associate Anuraag Bukkuri was recognized with the Scott H. Williamson Award from the Society for Modeling and Theory in Population Biology. This international award honors the achievements and promise of one outstanding early-career researcher. Congratulations!
tinyurl.com/AnuraagB
tinyurl.com/AnuraagB
How do you analyze millions of papers in the life sciences and physical sciences that have been published in the past 25 years? Jishnu Das and Swapnil Keshari developed the #MachineLearning tool DISCo-Net and used it to analyze papers from over 200 countries. Read more: tinyurl.com/CSBMachineLe...
March 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
How do you analyze millions of papers in the life sciences and physical sciences that have been published in the past 25 years? Jishnu Das and Swapnil Keshari developed the #MachineLearning tool DISCo-Net and used it to analyze papers from over 200 countries. Read more: tinyurl.com/CSBMachineLe...
In celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth, we are illuminating the scientific achievements of women. Though their names have been hidden in history books, women have made key contributions to biomedicine and biotechnology.
Read more about these scientific pioneers: tinyurl.com/BioWomensHis...
Read more about these scientific pioneers: tinyurl.com/BioWomensHis...
March 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
In celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth, we are illuminating the scientific achievements of women. Though their names have been hidden in history books, women have made key contributions to biomedicine and biotechnology.
Read more about these scientific pioneers: tinyurl.com/BioWomensHis...
Read more about these scientific pioneers: tinyurl.com/BioWomensHis...
Got science? We do, and we are as committed as ever to funding curiosity and finding cures. CSB members attended the Stand Up for Science event in Schenley Plaza last Friday.
March 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Got science? We do, and we are as committed as ever to funding curiosity and finding cures. CSB members attended the Stand Up for Science event in Schenley Plaza last Friday.
“Computational bio has taught me a lot of optimization and precision medicine elements that I think will enhance medicine as much as possible," said Harry Morford, a computational biomedicine and biotechnology master's degree student.
Learn more about Morford: tinyurl.com/HarryMorford
Learn more about Morford: tinyurl.com/HarryMorford
March 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
“Computational bio has taught me a lot of optimization and precision medicine elements that I think will enhance medicine as much as possible," said Harry Morford, a computational biomedicine and biotechnology master's degree student.
Learn more about Morford: tinyurl.com/HarryMorford
Learn more about Morford: tinyurl.com/HarryMorford
PhD student Achyudhan Kutuva earned an award to attend the Systems Approaches to Cancer Biology Conference at the University of Colorado. While attending SACB, he enjoyed learning more about cancer systems biology and networking with other researchers.
Read more: tinyurl.com/AchyudhanKut...
Read more: tinyurl.com/AchyudhanKut...
February 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
PhD student Achyudhan Kutuva earned an award to attend the Systems Approaches to Cancer Biology Conference at the University of Colorado. While attending SACB, he enjoyed learning more about cancer systems biology and networking with other researchers.
Read more: tinyurl.com/AchyudhanKut...
Read more: tinyurl.com/AchyudhanKut...
Help science thrive on this Pitt Day of Giving!
Your gift to the Computational and Systems Biology Fund will support training for the next generation of scientists and advance our mission of innovation.
Make an impact today: tinyurl.com/CompBioFund
Your gift to the Computational and Systems Biology Fund will support training for the next generation of scientists and advance our mission of innovation.
Make an impact today: tinyurl.com/CompBioFund
February 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Help science thrive on this Pitt Day of Giving!
Your gift to the Computational and Systems Biology Fund will support training for the next generation of scientists and advance our mission of innovation.
Make an impact today: tinyurl.com/CompBioFund
Your gift to the Computational and Systems Biology Fund will support training for the next generation of scientists and advance our mission of innovation.
Make an impact today: tinyurl.com/CompBioFund
We're only a few days away from Pitt Day of Giving! Your gift, no matter the size, will make a world of difference in advancing innovation and education. Consider donating to the Computational and Systems Biology fund to support research and discovery.
tinyurl.com/CSBGiving
tinyurl.com/CSBGiving
February 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
We're only a few days away from Pitt Day of Giving! Your gift, no matter the size, will make a world of difference in advancing innovation and education. Consider donating to the Computational and Systems Biology fund to support research and discovery.
tinyurl.com/CSBGiving
tinyurl.com/CSBGiving
Andrew McNutt, '24 CPCB graduate, is ready for life's next adventure. Before he begins his career in drug discovery, he's taking a well-deserved break to hike the Appalachian Trail from Georgie to Maine.
Read more: tinyurl.com/AndrewMcNutt
Read more: tinyurl.com/AndrewMcNutt
February 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Andrew McNutt, '24 CPCB graduate, is ready for life's next adventure. Before he begins his career in drug discovery, he's taking a well-deserved break to hike the Appalachian Trail from Georgie to Maine.
Read more: tinyurl.com/AndrewMcNutt
Read more: tinyurl.com/AndrewMcNutt