Vineet’s paper, which was presented last year in the ACM SIGKDD 2019 BioKDD workshop, is now accepted for publication in the special issue of IEEE/ACM Transactions in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. The paper is entitled “A pipeline for integrated theory and data-driven modeling of…
Congratulations to Haopu Yang, a Tsinghua scholar from our group, for the acceptance of a paper he co-authored by the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. This paper, which is a collaboration with George Kitsios, MD, is investigating whether respiratory tract microbiota are associated with host inflammation and clinical outcomes of…
We are happy to welcome to the group Kiley Hewitt, a Computer Science junior at the Allegheny College. Kiley will work with us over the summer. Her project is about developing algorithms for analysis of scRNA-seq data using causal modeling. Welcome Kiley!…
The Benos Lab received an R01 grant to study the molecular changes that occur in people with alcoholic hepatitis and develop predictors of disease outcomes. This is a collaboration between our lab and the labs of Gavin Arteel and Michael Merchant.
Congratulations to Haopu for the acceptance of his Editorial article in the Annals of Translational Medicine. The article comments how causal inference algorithms can be used to predict the risk of ventilation-induced kidney injury. The title of the Editorial is: “Protecting the lungs but hurting the kidneys: causal inference study…
Congratulations to Vineet for the acceptance of his paper by the Nucleic Acids Research (2020 Web Server issue). The paper is entitled “CausalMGM: An interactive web-based causal discovery tool” and describes the new web server our group put together in collaboration with the group of Prof. Panos Chrysanthis.
Congratulations to Giorgio Bertolazzi, a former visitor to our group, for the acceptance of his paper by the BMC Bioinformatics. This paper is a collaboration Claudia Coronnello, a BenosLab alumna and Giorgio’s advisor. It is entitled “An improvement of ComiR algorithm for microRNA target prediction by exploiting coding region sequences…
Robert Gregg joined our group in April to work on the predictors of chronic diseases. Robert received his PhD from the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh. He completed his PhD on modeling intracellular dynamics at Jason Shoemaker’s lab. Welcome Robert!…
The group continues growing! Last year’s expansion was repeated this year with recruitment of three new students: Marissa Di, Haiyi Mao and Mark Ebeid. They are all PhD students; Marissa and Mark in the CPCB program (offered jointly by Pitt and CMU) and Haiyi in the Intelligent Systems Program…
Takis gave a presentation and a hands-on session to the participants of the 2020 SITC Cancer Immunotherapyy Winter School. This school, held annually, aims to provide a deep understanding of the core principles of tumor immunology and cancer immunotherapy.
