George Glass, Jason Papin, and James Mandell's manuscript "Simple: A Sequential Immunoperoxidase Labeling and Erasing Method" was accepted for publication by the Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry.

Joseph Klembczyk and Arvind Chavali received a Double Hoo Research Grant for their project "Evaluating regulatory network structure in Leishmania". [UVA News Release]

February 2009

Erwin Gianchandani's manuscript describing systems-based discovery of the mechanism of a novel synthetic small molecule inducer of angiogenesis was accepted by the journal Biotechnology & Bioengineering.

George Glass, Erwin Gianchandani, and Corinne Locke's manuscript describing beta-arrestin 1 as a prognostic marker for malignant gliomas was recently accepted by the Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology.

The Virginia Genetically Engineered Machine (VGEM) team, including UVa students Patrick Gildea, Eyad Lababidi, Dan Tarjan, George Washington, and Brandon Freschcorn, received the bronze medal at MIT's iGEM 2008 for its transcription attenuator.  (Click here for the UVa press release.)

Arvind Chavali received the 2008-2009 Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Sciences & Engineering from the University of Virginia.

December 2008:

Erwin Gianchandani successfully defended his dissertation titled "Toward integrated biochemical network modeling:  reconstructing and analyzing whole-cell biology."

November 2008:

Arvind Chavali and Erwin Gianchandani's review on agent-based modeling of immunological systems is featured on the cover of the December 2008 issue of Trends in Immunology.

August 2008

Congratulations to Arvind Chavali and Erwin Gianchandani whose review on agent-based modeling of immunological systems was accepted by Trends in Immunology.  In addition, Erwin's recent pathway compendium analysis, with BME collaborators Ed Botchwey and Kristen Wieghaus, has been accepted by Bioinformatics.

Congratulations also to Matthew Oberhardt for the acceptance of his metabolic network reconstruction of Pseudomonas putida in PLoS Computational Biology.

July 2008:

Congratulations to Arvind Chavali who passed his Ph.D. qualifying examination.  Arvind's recent reconstruction of the metabolic network of Leishmania major was also featured in this month's issue of the School of Engineering and Applied Science's E-News Online (click here for the article).

June 2008:

Congratulations to Ani Manichaikul whose reconstruction of the metabolic network of the algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in collaboration with researchers at Harvard University's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is being funded by the Department of Energy (click here for the UVa press release).

May 2008:

Congratulations to Arvind Chavali and Matthew Oberhardt whose recent metabolic network reconstructions of Leishmania major and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, respectively, were featured in the news media.  Press releases were distributed by the UVa School of Medicine and the UVa News Office.  In addition, the work has appeared on WVIR-TV (NBC) channel 29 and elsewhere.

Congratulations to Arvind Chavali and Erwin Gianchandani who each received Graduate Student Travel Awards sponsored by the University of Virginia's Graduate Biosciences Society (GBS) for conferences they attended last fall.

April 2008:

Congratulations to Erwin Gianchandani who was selected as the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering's 2008 Biomedical Sciences (BIMS) Program Outstanding Graduate Student and nominee for the Michael J. Peach and Jill E. Hungerford Awards.

Congratulations to Arvind Chavali and Erwin Gianchandani, who each received Graduate Student Travel Awards sponsored by Northrop Grumman Mission Systems for upcoming fall conferences.

Congratulations to Matthew Oberhardt, whose recent publication in the Journal of Bacteriology was featured on the cover of the journal's April 2008 issue.  Matthew also received a Transatlantic Biotechnology Fellowship from the US-European Union Taskforce on Biotechnology Research, for a one-month research trip to Braunschweig, Germany, later this spring.

March 2008:

Congratulations to Erwin Gianchandani and lab alumni Jong Min Lee and James Eddy on their recent publication in PLoS Computational Biology.

February 2008:

Congratulations to Erwin Gianchandani for his recent presentation on behalf of the University of Virginia at the 2008 Virginia Council of Graduate Studies (VCGS) Research Forum in Richmond (click here for the UVa news release).

Congratulations to Matthew Oberhardt who received the 2007-2008 Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Sciences & Engineering from the University of Virginia (click here for the UVa news release).

Congratulations to Arvind Chavali on his recent publication in Nature/EMBO Molecular Systems Biology.

January 2008:

Congratulations to Erwin Gianchandani, whose research was featured in the Winter 2008 issue of the University of Virginia's research publication called Explorations.  Click here for the online version of the article (or here for the PDF).

Congratulations to Erwin Gianchandani and Matthew Oberhardt on their recent publications.

October 2007:

Congratulations to Erwin Gianchandani for his recent publication in Tissue Engineering along with BME collaborators Kristen Wieghaus and Ed Botchwey. The paper was selected by the journal's editors as an "Editor's top pick - hot paper."  Click here for the UVa press release.

Congratulations to Matthew Oberhardt on his recent publication.

Congratulations to Arvind Chavali, Erwin Gianchandani and Corinne Locke on their conference presentations this fall at BMES and ICSB.

August 2007:

See here for an opening of a DOE-funded post-doctoral fellowship.

Congratulations to Arvind Chavali who successfully defended for his Master of Engineering (M.E.) in Biomedical Engineering.

June 2007:

Congratulations to Matthew Oberhardt who passed his Ph.D. qualifying examination.

May 2007:

CSBL has received funding from a NSF CAREER Award for a project on interrogating pathogen-host relationships (click here for the UVa news release)!

April 2007:

Congratulations to Jeffrey Whittemore, James Eddy and Kyle Williams for being selected as finalists in the University of Virginia's Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium for their work on Leishmania major (click here for the UVa news release).

February 2007:

Congratulations to Erwin Gianchandani who successfully defended his master's thesis and received a Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering.

CSBL has received funding from the UVa-Cancer Center for a pilot project on applying a novel immunohistochemical signaling network analysis platform (I-SNAP) to multiple cancer types.  Dr. James Mandell in the Department of Pathology is a co-principal investigator on the project.

Congratulations to Jeffrey Whittemore who successfully completed the prestigious 2006 Raven Society Fellowship for his work on Leishmania.

January 2007:

Congratulations to Erwin Gianchandani who received the 2006-2007 Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Sciences & Engineering from the University of Virginia (click here for the UVa news release).

December 2006:

Congratulations to Arvind Chavali, Matthew Oberhardt, Erwin Gianchandani, and Jeffrey Whittemore on their conference presentations this fall.  Arvind delivered a poster at BMES in Chicago and a talk at AIChE in San Francisco; Matthew and Erwin presented at BMES and AIChE, respectively; and Jeff attended ASCB in San Diego.

August 2006:

Congratulations to Erwin Gianchandani on the publication of his paper on matrix formalism for transcriptional regulatory networks, which is featured on the cover of the August 2006 issue of PLoS Computational Biology (abstract).

June 2006:

Congratulations to Erwin Gianchandani who passed his Ph.D. qualifying examination.

May 2006:

Congratulations to Jong Min Lee (abstract) and Erwin Gianchandani (abstract) on their recent publications.

March 2006:

CSBL has received funding from the UVa-Coulter Foundation Translational Research Award for a project on identifying and characterizing signaling networks in glioblastomas.  Dr. James Mandell in the Department of Pathology is a co-principal investigator on the project.

Jeffrey Whittemore, a third-year undergraduate student doing research in the CSBL, has received a prestigious 2006 Raven Society Fellowship for his research project.  The project involves constructing a life-cycle model of Leishmania, which may then be coupled with an intracellular network reconstruction to generate novel drug targets for the treatment of leishmaniasis.