Qutub Systems Biology Lab

NEWS

December 2015

Dec 15 The lab's research characterizing neural network formation to identify ways the brain self-repairs is profiled by Voice of America.

The DREAM 8 paper on reverse engineering breast cancer signaling pathways was accepted in Nature Methods. Congrats to Laura, Steven & all! Wendy Hu's, Alex Bisberg's, Amina Qutub's, Dave Noren's and Byron Long's winning work on Biowheel & network inference algorithms will be featured.

Dec 10 BRAIN Initiative PI meeting in Bethesda. Amina will share the lab's neuroregenerative research & introduce the new project on neural network formation.

Amina Qutub presents on the lab's methods to interpret diverse biological data at the National Academies of Science, Engineering & Medicine Arab-American Frontiers of Engineering meeting in Thuwal.

Dec 1 The Segatori and Qutub Labs win a grant from the Kleberg Foundation to precisely modulate proteomic signatures of leukemia cells.

November 2015

Check out Arun's Ideas that Go Viral research pitch.

Nov 24 Ka Wai Lin passed his thesis on the role of insulin-hypoxic response crosstalk in brain cancer progression. Congrats Ka Wai!

Nov 24 Dan Beard (Univ. of Michigan) presents a Dept of Bioengineering seminar in BRC 280 at 4 pm.

Congrats to Dave Noren, whose paper "VEGF-Mediated Ca2+ Signaling Steers Endothelial Cell Phenotypes by a Combination of Stochastic and Deterministic Decoding" was accepted at Science Signaling.

Nov 19 TEDx video of Amina's talk is available. Director of the Rice Space Institute David Alexander & Oshman Design Kitchen's Matthew Wettergreen also presented.

Nov 17 Bob Tranquillo (Univ. of Minnesota) presents a Dept of Bioengineering seminar in BRC 280 at 4 pm.

Nov 12 Amina presents a seminar at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida.

Nov 11 Progeny Clustering code package is now available open source in the R repository: "progenyClust: Finding the Optimal Cluster Number Using Progeny Clustering".

Nov 10 Amina will share the lab's neurovasculature studies at the annual AiCHE Meeting in Salt Lake City.

October 2015

Oct 29 Ravi Iyengar (Mt. Sinai) presents the Jeffrey Michel Innovations in Systems Biology Seminar at Rice's BioScience Research Collaborative. RSVP by Oct 27th.

Oct 26 Amina Qutub presents at the 52nd Society of Engineering Science meeting.

Oct 25 Amina Qutub presents at the Texas Mechanobiology Symposium at Texas A&M on the lab's new neurovasculature regeneration modeling & experiments.

Oct 18 TEDxHouston - Amina Qutub is one of the speakers. Livestream video available (starts ~60 min)

Oct 13 IBM Women in Tech, Amina Qutub presents the Keynote Address on Big Data in Medicine.

Oct 10 BRAIN Initiative Symposium, Mayo Clinic.

Oct 10 Dave Noren presents at the annual Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting on emerging methods to derive clinical biomarkers from the integration and analysis of crowd-sourced models.

Oct 2 Arun Mahadevan presents at the GCC Neuroengineering conference.

SEPTEMBER 2015

Friday, Sept 18th intro seminar by Amina Qutub at Baylor College of Medicine, 11:30 am, 409B, One Baylor Plaza.

Attend the 2015 GSA Innovation Symposium Sept 11th, to learn about new, cutting-edge work at the Rice. Arun Mahadevan from the Qutub Lab will present an Ideas that Go Viral talk on social behaviors of neural cells.

Join the lab startup DiBS and Houston's biotech community on Sept 10th for TMCx's Demo Day.

AUGUST 2015

The Qutub lab, and our collaborators Jacob Robinson & Dan Wagner, won a NSF Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems program grant to study how neural progenitor cells form functional neural networks!

Progeny Clustering is published online! Check out the video of Chenyue Wendy Hu describing the new method.

Join us at the Simons Institute workshop on Dynamic Biological Modeling in Berkeley August 10-14th. Amina Ann Qutub will present on cell signaling network inference.

JULY 2015

Congrats to Chenyue Wendy Hu, whose paper "Progeny Clustering: a Method to Identify Biological Phenotypes" was accepted at Scientific Reports!

Amina Ann Qutub will give a Keynote Address at the Houston Health Museum Summer Symposium July 10, and the Keynote Address for the IBM Women in Technology conference Oct 13.

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