BUSM GSI 2019 Workshop Competition Announcement

The BUSM Genome Science Institute, in collaboration with the BU Single-Cell Sequencing Core, is sponsoring two workshops this Spring 2019, providing the BUMC and BU research community a chance to explore two developing areas of genomic experiments for generating preliminary data for future grant proposals.  Both workshops are limited competitions for labs to submit an […]

Save the Date! 2018 GSI Research Symposium: November 15th

Save the Date, November 15th 2018! The Annual GSI Research Symposium is an interdisciplinary event emphasizing research in Genetics and Genomics. Participation in the poster session and attendance at the GSI Symposium is open to all Boston area researchers with interests that emphasize these disciplines. Abstracts will be selected for oral presentation distinction and additional […]

Call for Abstracts: 2018 GSI Research Symposium due October 19th

The Annual GSI Research Symposium is an interdisciplinary event emphasizing research in Genetics and Genomics. Participation in the poster session and attendance at the GSI Symposium is open to all Boston area researchers with interests that emphasize these disciplines. Abstracts will be selected for oral presentation distinction and additional prizes will be awarded for the […]

Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) Training and CLC bio Seminar

QIAGEN Bioinformatics at Boston University Medical Campus Wednesday, April 11th Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) and CLC bio Seminar Session 1:  11:00 TO 12:00 CLC product for secondary analysis Overview of Application, Importing NGS read data, QC & Pre-processing De novo assembly – Genomes & Transcriptomes. Characterizing Contigs, Joining & Finishing Mapping/Alignment to Reference, Variant Calling, […]

Congratulations to the Winners of the 2017 GSI Research Symposium

The Directors, faculty, and staff of the Genome Science Institute would like to thank all who attended the Ninth Annual GSI Research Symposium and helped to make it a success! We extend special thanks to those faculty members who participated as poster judges this year, and to the vendors upon whose generous support this event […]

Alla Grishok Named GSI Co-Director

The Genome Science Institute is pleased to announce that Alla Grishok, PhD will become Co-Director starting August 1, 2017. Dr. Grishok is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, and her research focuses on gene regulation by RNA and epigenetics. She came to BUSM from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University […]

GSI/Biochemistry Faculty Search

Schedule of Faculty Candidate Visits 12:00 – 1:00 pm in K-103   Date Name Title Thurs., Oct. 20 Bluma Lesch, M.D. and Ph.D.Postdoctoral Fellow, David Page’s Lab Whitehead Institute, MIT “Evolution and developmental control of epigenetic poising in the animal germ line” Thurs., Nov. 17 Christian Froekjaer Jensen, Ph.D.Visiting Scientist, Andrew Fire’s Lab Departments of […]

Faculty Search in Genetics & Genomics

The Department of Biochemistry, in collaboration with the Genome Science Institute at Boston University School of Medicine, is undertaking a major expansion in the areas of Genetics and Genomics. We invite applications at the Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor levels from highly qualified individuals working in these areas. Several positions are available, and these will be highly competitive with […]

Winners of the 2014 Research Symposium

The Genome Science Institute is pleased to present the winners of the 2014 Annual Research Symposium: Oral Presenters: Cody Desjardins, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, BU CRC Dissecting the distinct regulatory roles of the MEF2 transcription factors in muscle Dana Lau Corona, Graduate Program in Genetics and Genomics, BUSM Epigenetic regulation of growth hormone-responsive […]

Introduction to the Globus Genomics GSI Site License

On July 24th, the Genome Science Institute is hosting a seminar to introduce the new Globus Genomics site license. Globus Genomics is a computing platform for next generation sequencing data analysis and management. This seminar will introduce the functionality of this resource and provide details on the scope of the license and how to access […]