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GSI Symposium Recap 2025

Thank you to all the vendors listed below for being part of our symposium, as well as everyone who gave talks and presented their posters. We had around 150 guests, making it a truly memorable event. We’re excited about our next 18th GSI Symposium! Below, you’ll find photos, a link to the live video, and […]

GSI Announces Winners of 10x Genomics GEM-X-Flex Pilot Award

The Genome Science Institute (GSI) at Boston University is pleased to announce the GSI-supported 10x GEM-X Flex Pilot Grant competition winners for this Fall 2025. After a highly competitive review of 21 proposals, our review panel could only select 2 projects for GSI funding. Congratulations to: Clair Woppmann (Gouon-Evans Lab) Diana Yeritsyan (Layne Lab) Despite […]

GSI 2025 Pilot Grant Competition – Applications Due March 28th, 2025

The Genome Science Institute will soon hold the workshop pilot grant competition this Spring 2025 aimed at assisting GSI labs at Boston University try out new genetics and genomics technologies. These pilot grants are intended to provide the resources needed to generate preliminary data prior to the submission of extramural grants (e.g., R01s or P01s). […]

2025 Bioinformatics Masters Summer Internship Program

The BU Bioinformatics MS Program and the Genome Science Institute are pleased to announce the matching of this summer’s investigators and MS students for the Bioinformatics Masters Summer Internship Program. PI: Nelson Lau, Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology Student: Manseeb Hossain PI: Ella Zeldich, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology Student: Shivani Pimparkar PI: Chao Zhang, Department […]

GSI Hosts Packed House for 10X Genomics Seminar

GSI was thrilled to host a full-house seminar featuring 10X Genomics, drawing strong interest from both students and faculty. The event was part of GSI’s ongoing seminar series, designed to foster engagement between GPGG students, GPGG/GSI faculty, and leading voices from academia and industry. GSI encourages all GPGG students and faculty to reach out with […]

2024 Bioinformatics Masters Summer Internship Program

The BU Bioinformatics MS Program and the Genome Science Institute are pleased to announce the matching of this summer’s investigators and MS students for the Bioinformatics Masters Summer Internship Program. PI: Ella Zeldich, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology Student: Shreya Nalluri PI: Chao Zhang, Department of Computational Medicine Students: Truman Folger, Zach Derse, Saumya Pothukuchi, and Muxi Wang PI: Jinying […]

GSI Research Symposium 2021 Recap

We thank everyone who attended and participated in the 13th Annual GSI Research Symposium held virtually on November 18, 2021. There were 112 registrations and an average 58 concurrent viewers this year over the span of the online symposium.  It began with a special tribute to remember our late colleague, Kimberlin Humphrey-Kiger, who passed away […]

Ingenuity IPA Software Access Starting April 1, 2021

We are pleased to announce that the GSI will be renewing our license with Qiagen for Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) for the upcoming year. As part of the renewal, we have upgraded our license to include IPA Analysis Match which will allow users to not only quickly visualize and understand complex ‘omics data, but will […]

GSI Workshop Competition 2020 Winners

The Genome Science Institute is excited to announce the winners of our second annual Workshop Competition! For full details on the competition and our partners that made the competition possible, check out our official announcement here! scRNA-seq Award, theme – “Invertebrates”: “Genomic analysis of brain evolution and complex social behavior: leveraging the power of single-cell […]