DIMACS - Celera Genomics/ Applied Biosystems Graduate Student Award in Computational Molecular Biology

Funded by Celera Genomics/Applied Biosystems and awarded each year of the DIMACS Special Focus on Computational Molecular Biology (Sept. 2000 - August 2004), the award is aimed at recognizing outstanding achievements of young people in the field. Winners are invited to present a talk at a DIMACS workshop with expenses paid.

Nominations are made by letter of recommendation from mentors and should include an indication of which upcoming workshop the award would be most appropriate for. A list of workshops can be found at http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/archive/Workshops/index-compmolecbiol.html. Nominations should be sent by email to Christine Spassione at DIMACS (spassion@dimacs.rutgers.edu) by the deadline date:

First Year Competition:

Workshops during the period December 2000 - November 2001.

Nomination Deadline: November 10, 2000.

Winners:

• Barry Cohen, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Mentor: Dr. Steven Skiena
  Photos of award presentation at the workshop on Whole Genome Comparison: March 2, 2001
  Abstract of talk: The Space of RNA Encodings of a Target Protein

• Itsik Pe'er, Tel Aviv University. Mentor: Dr. Ron Shamir
  Photos of award presentation at the workshop on Analysis of Gene Expression Data: October 25, 2001
  Abstract of talk: Computational Resequencing by Universal Microarrays

• Mihaela Pertea, The Institute for Genomic Research. Mentor: Dr. Steven Salzberg
  Photos of award presentation at the workshop on Integration of Diverse Biological Data: June 21, 2001
  Abstract of talk: Gene finding in Eukaryotes

Second Year Competition:

Workshops during the period December 2001-September 2002.

Nomination Deadline: September 30, 2001.

Winner:

• Scott Rifkin, Yale University. Mentor: Dr. Junhyong Kim
  Photos of award presentation at the workshop on Workshop: Complexity in Biosystems: Innovative Approaches at the Interface of Experimental and Computational Modeling: April 9, 2002
  Abstract of talk: Structure of Gene Expression

Third Year Competition:

Workshops during the period December 2002-September 2003.

Nomination Deadline: September 30, 2002.

Winner:

• Ziv Bar-Joseph, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mentor: David Gifford
  Photos of award presentation at the workshop on Workshop: Data Mining Techniques in Bioinformatics: October 30 - 31, 2003
  Abstract of talk: Structure of Gene Expression

Fourth Year Competition:

Workshops during the period December 2003-September 2004.

Nomination Deadline Extended: January 30, 2004.

Winner:

• Jessica Fong, NIH (Award notification sent while still while at Princeton University). Mentor: Mona Singh
  Photos of award presentation at the Workshop Sequence, Structure and Systems Approaches to Predict Protein Function (May 3-5, 2006)
  Abstract of talk: Evolution of Protein Domain Architectures

• Matthew Menke, MIT, Mentor: Bonnie Berger
  

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