CCSB@PVAMU / blog

2026

7 posts

Dr. Shuvo leads an NSF Research Initiation Award: Bridging the Gap between Sequence and Function with Ethical and Explainable AI for Protein Function Prediction

18 Aug 2026 by Md Hossain Shuvo

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Dr. Mgbemena leads a TAMUS REF Early Stage Grant: Targeting and Characterization of Alzheimer's Disease by a Novel Fyn Kinase Inhibitor

27 Jul 2026 by Victoria Mgbemena

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Decoding Biological Complexity: Graph Neural Networks in Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics

22 Apr 2026

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Understanding Cybercrime as a Socio-Technical System: Global Drivers and Gaps in Research Training

8 Apr 2026

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Multi-task GINN-LP for Multi-target Symbolic Regression

25 Mar 2026

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[CCSB Seminar Series] AI-Guided Discovery of Brain-Penetrant Kinase Inhibitors for PD/PK Rationally Designed Therapies

25 Feb 2026

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Investigating the Differential Requirements of DNA Repair genes in Blood Cell Commitment and Maturation

11 Feb 2026

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2025

16 posts

[CCSB Seminar Series] Quantifying source contribution to indole and phenol metabolites

22 Oct 2025

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Optimizing the Seed Germination Bioassay for Reliable Toxicity Assessment

22 Oct 2025

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Deep Learning for Intermolecular Interaction Prediction

22 Oct 2025

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Data-Driven AI Frameworks toward Computational Drug Discovery

8 Oct 2025

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens

24 Sep 2025

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Computational Methods for Molecular Cancer Classification: From Traditional Machine Learning to Prior-Fitted Networks in Multi-Omics Analysis

10 Sep 2025

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Dr. Kim awarded PVAMU RISE Undergraduate Research Grant: Training in Illumina NextSeq High-Throughput Sequencing and Analysis Pipeline at PVAMU

25 Aug 2025 by Seungchan Kim

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Dr. Kim awarded 2025 TAMU-PVAMU PRISE (Panther Research & Innovation for Scholarly Excellence) Grant: Sequential Targeting of Alzheimer's Disease by Novel Gamma-Secretase Modulator and Fyn Kinase Inhibitor

25 Aug 2025 by Seungchan Kim

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Dr. Kim awarded PVAMU RISE Graduate Grant: Machine Learning-Based Identification of Differentially Methylated Regions in Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data

20 Aug 2025 by Seungchan Kim

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Knowledge Acquisition on Mass-shooting Events via LLMs for AI-Driven Justice

30 Apr 2025

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[CCSB Seminar Series] From pathology to MRI and ultrasound, a multimodal information extraction

16 Apr 2025

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Functional Roles of DNA Repair Variants of Undetermined Significance in Prostate Cancer using Cell-based Modeling

2 Apr 2025

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Enhancing Microgrid Security in Diverse Environments: Integrating Zero Trust Architecture and Bayesian Optimization for Robust Anomaly Detection

19 Mar 2025

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Vascular tissue-mediated molecular responses to low phosphorus

5 Mar 2025

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Toward reliability evaluation of computational models of protein molecules and their interactions

19 Feb 2025

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Enhancing Controllable Image Generation with Efficient Consistency Feedback

5 Feb 2025

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2024

12 posts

[CCSB Seminar Series] Facts Are Wonderful, Until They Are Not

6 Nov 2024

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Deep Knowledge Tracing for Personalized Adaptive Learning at Historically Black College and Universities (HBCUs)

23 Oct 2024

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Building urban climate resilience using spatial data science

9 Oct 2024

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Functional Roles of DNA Repair Variants of Undetermined Significance in Prostate Cancer using cell-based assays

25 Sep 2024

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[CCSB Seminar Series] How You Can Reduce Your Environmental Impact Through Food Choices – EPA Region 6

11 Sep 2024

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Xishaung Dong, Ph.D., prompoted to Associate Professor

1 Sep 2024 by Seungchan Kim

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Xishaung Dong, Ph.D., prompoted to Associate Professor

Ms. Jalyn D Beaty successfully presented her MS project

7 Aug 2024 by Seungchan Kim

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Population-based discovery and validation of brain alterations in pulmonary hypertension

1 May 2024

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Mechanical Stimulation Increases Sorghum Stem Strength and Flexibility and is Associated with Altered Transcriptome Expression and Hormone Homeostasis

24 Apr 2024

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Single cell and spatial transcriptomics to study differential pathways and cell signaling

3 Apr 2024

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Introduction to Autonomous Systems and Their Applications

20 Mar 2024

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Proformer-Based Ensemble Learning for Gene Expression Prediction

6 Mar 2024

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2023

18 posts

[CCSB Seminar Series] A Neural Signaling Pathway of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes

13 Dec 2023

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Characterizing DNA Repair Variants of Undetermined Significance in Prostate Cancer using cell-based functional assays

29 Nov 2023

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Dr. Kim co-leads NIH T32 training grant for AI-Precision Nutrition Research to Promote Nutrition Health Equity among Underserved Populations

3 Nov 2023 by Seungchan Kim

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Dr. Dong awarded NSF ExpandAI Capacity Building pliot grant (CAP)

3 Nov 2023 by Xishuang Dong

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Towards using AI/ML methods for exploring nutrition and obesity disparities

1 Nov 2023

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Branches, Boundaries and Bracts: in Search of the Meristematic Homunculus

4 Oct 2023

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Arterial spin labeling (ASL) imaging in early diagnosis and treatment therapy

20 Sep 2023

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Dr. Kim awarded PVAMU RISE Graduate Grant: Development of Computational Tool to Investigate Cell signaling utilizing Spatial Transcriptomic Data

6 Sep 2023 by Seungchan Kim

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Functionally repolarizing myeloid stroma with synthetic STING agonists drives immune clearance of Glioblastoma

10 May 2023

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Topological Metabolic Analysis for the Reconstruction of Major Biosynthetic Pathways and Cycles in Methylococcus capsulatus

26 Apr 2023

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[CCSB Seminar Series] The Role of Algae Farming in Industrial and Agricultural Decarbonization

5 Apr 2023

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[CCSB Seminar Series] ChatGPT: Opportunity and Challenge to Research and Education

22 Mar 2023

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Dr. Dong leads a team from PVAMU and AAMU to win NSF IUSE grant

20 Mar 2023 by Xishuang Dong

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Dr. Dong leads a team from PVAMU and AAMU to win NSF IUSE grant

Dr. Kim awarded a collaborative grant with UPMC team to identify anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrotic effects of Tyvaso in WSPH Group 3 pulmonary hypertension

13 Mar 2023 by Seungchan Kim

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Dr. Kim awarded a collaborative grant with UPMC team to identify anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrotic effects of Tyvaso in WSPH Group 3 pulmonary hypertension

[CCSB Seminar Series] exRNAs for examining injuries and diseases for the central nervous system

8 Mar 2023

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Characterizing DNA Repair Variants of Undetermined Significance in Prostate Cancer

22 Feb 2023

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Several partially distinct molecular pathways control shoot branching in the grasses

8 Feb 2023

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Decoding Sorghum genome using a mutant population

25 Jan 2023

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2022

16 posts

[CCSB Seminar Series] Integrated multi-omic analyses identify genetic causes of endothelial inflammation in pulmonary hypertension

9 Nov 2022

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Development of a Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis Model for Drug Discovery and Testing

26 Oct 2022

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Using Cold Plasma Treatment Technologies to Reduce Agricultural Waste

12 Oct 2022

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Deciphering cell-cell communications with spatial transcriptomic data

5 Oct 2022

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Topological Metabolic Analysis for the Reconstruction of Anammox-DAMO Pathways in Microbial Consortia

14 Sep 2022

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Dr. Kebrom awarded a $500,000 research grant from the 1890 Capacity Building Grant Program of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), United Stated Department of Agriculture (USDA)

7 Sep 2022 by Tesfamichael Kebrom

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Dr. Kebrom awarded a $500,000 research grant from the 1890 Capacity Building Grant Program of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), United Stated Department of Agriculture (USDA)

[CCSB Seminar Series] Calibrated Bagging Deep Learning for Image Semantic Segmentation: A Case Study on COVID-19 Chest X-ray Image

18 May 2022

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[CCSB Seminar Series] The False Premise of the Gene Biomarkers and the Personalized Cancer Genomic Medicine

4 May 2022

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Improving Windows Customer Experiences via Data Science & ML

20 Apr 2022

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Shade signaling and shoot elongation in sorghum

13 Apr 2022

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Dr. Martin joins CCSB and co-leads with Dr. Kim a collaborative project with Sandia Lab.

1 Apr 2022 by Lealon Martin

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Dr. Martin joins CCSB and co-leads with Dr. Kim a collaborative project with Sandia Lab.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Curating the USDA-ARS National Small Grains Rice World Collection and Genetic Stocks Oryza Collection

23 Mar 2022

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Biomarker development for personalized immunotherapy

9 Mar 2022

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Joint Inference Approaches for Event Coreference Resolution

23 Feb 2022

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Computational Network Biology Enabled by Large-Scale Transcriptomic Data

9 Feb 2022

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Machine Learning for Computational Network Biology

26 Jan 2022

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2021

20 posts

[CCSB Seminar Series] Epigenetics: Do we know what we know?

15 Dec 2021

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CCSB Student Lucy Nwosu featured in Student Researcher Spotlight

11 Nov 2021 by Xishuang Dong

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CCSB Student Lucy Nwosu featured in Student Researcher Spotlight

[CCSB Seminar Series] State Space Methods for the Global Optimization of Chemical and Biological Processes

10 Nov 2021

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Dr. Kim leads PVAMU team to collaborate with UT Health for GET PHIT award

28 Oct 2021 by Seungchan Kim

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Dr. Kim leads PVAMU team to collaborate with UT Health for GET PHIT award

[CCSB Seminar Series] Decentralized Machine Learning for Privacy-preserving Biomedical Application

27 Oct 2021

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[CCSB Seminar Series] The Power of RNA-seq Gene Expression Profiling Illustrated by Shoot Branching Research in Plants

13 Oct 2021

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Pathways controlling plant stem cells and impacts on crop yields

29 Sep 2021

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[CCSB Seminar Series] On the existence (or not) of Pauli Crystals

15 Sep 2021

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Up/down and left/right by the heart transcriptome

1 Sep 2021

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Dr. Dong awarded Faculty-RISE Graduate Research Award - Division of Research & Innovation

16 Aug 2021 by Seungchan Kim

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Dr. Dong awarded Faculty-RISE Graduate Research Award - Division of Research & Innovation

[CCSB Seminar Series] Structural Optimization and Preclinical Development of Selective Potent Kinase Inhibitors Targeting Aggressive HER2-Resistant Breast Cancer

19 May 2021

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Understanding CNS immunity to reactivate the immune system in Glioblastoma brain tumor patients

5 May 2021

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Age against the machine: How aging disrupts the homeostasis of cancer

21 Apr 2021

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Multidimensional Uncertainty Quantification for Graph Neural Networks

7 Apr 2021

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Imaging Heavy Ion Particle Tracks at Micron Level for Radiation Biology Applications

24 Mar 2021

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Efficient Privacy Preserving Edge Computing Framework for Image Classification in IoT

10 Mar 2021

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Creating the Mindset for Translational Research

24 Feb 2021

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[CCSB Seminar Series] QM/MM Simulation of Biological Systems

27 Jan 2021

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Dr. Kebrom awarded a $200,000 research grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), United Stated Department of Agriculture (USDA)

15 Jan 2021 by Seungchan Kim

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Biomarker discovery using RNAseq data -- a computational perspective

13 Jan 2021

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2020

20 posts

[CCSB Seminar Series] Genome assembly process, challenges and application in research

16 Dec 2020

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Semi-supervised Learning for COVID-19 Image Classification via ResNet

2 Dec 2020

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Characterizing the pathobiology of a complex disease using genome-scale data and interpretable models: application to COPD

18 Nov 2020

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Dissecting the shade avoidance syndrome of plants using RNA-seq

4 Nov 2020

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Dr. Dong awarded a curriculum development grant for collaboration with NVIDIA on the DLI Data Science Teaching Kit with RAPIDS

2 Nov 2020 by Seungchan Kim

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Special Issue 'Genomic Fabric Remodeling in Neurological Disorders'

31 Oct 2020 by Seungchan Kim

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Determinants of plant architecture in grasses

21 Oct 2020

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Targeting Glioblastoma-microenvironment interactions for anti-tumor activity

7 Oct 2020

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Dr. Joy awarded with Faculty RISE-Undergraduate Research Award - Division of Research & Innovation

1 Oct 2020 by Seungchan Kim

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Dr. Joy awarded with Faculty RISE-Undergraduate Research Award - Division of Research & Innovation

[CCSB Seminar Series] DNA and RNA are fun! An exploration of current tools for genomic analysis

23 Sep 2020

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Dr. Dong awarded with Faculty RISE-Graduate Research Award - Division of Research & Innovation

16 Sep 2020 by Seungchan Kim

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Dr. Dong awarded with Faculty RISE-Graduate Research Award - Division of Research & Innovation

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Dr. Dong) gets a gift ($25,000) from Intel Corporation for Curriculum Development

16 Sep 2020 by Seungchan Kim

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Dr. Dong) gets a gift ($25,000) from Intel Corporation for Curriculum Development

[CCSB Seminar Series] Genomic Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2

9 Sep 2020

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Dr. Dong awarded with RAPID to study COVID-19 with Medical Images

21 Jul 2020 by Seungchan Kim

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Dr. Dong awarded with RAPID to study COVID-19 with Medical Images

[CCSB Seminar Series] Genomic fabric remodeling in neurological diseases

6 May 2020

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Cell Type Identification from Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data via Deep Learning

8 Apr 2020

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Modulation of Gut Microbiome by Nutritional Strategies to Protect against Obesity and Related Metabolic Dysfunctions

4 Mar 2020

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Computational Analysis of Single-Cell RNAseq Data

19 Feb 2020

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Emerging Internet-Based Technologies

5 Feb 2020

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Biomarker for Space Radiation Risk: Cytogenetic study of heavy ion-induced chromosomal damage in human cells

22 Jan 2020

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2019

21 posts

[CCSB Seminar Series] Discovery of Glioblastoma immune subtypes to improve immunotherapy

11 Dec 2019

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Shielding studies for aerospace radiation applications

4 Dec 2019

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2019 IEEE BIBM Workshop - Single Cell -Omics: Challenges and Opportunities (BIBM-SCOMICS)

18 Nov 2019 by Seungchan Kim

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Cybersecurity present and future: is there a need for a Science of Cybersecurity?

13 Nov 2019

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Hiring a post-doctoral fellow for Computational Biology

11 Nov 2019 by Seungchan Kim

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Mechanistic Protein Modeling for Rational Drug Discovery

7 Nov 2019

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Molecular Subtypes in Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer

23 Oct 2019

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Brain, Sex, Synapses and Neurological Diseases – A Transcriptomic Story

9 Oct 2019

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Molecular Insights into Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) Aggressiveness and Metastasis

25 Sep 2019

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FIE Funding for Dr. Tesfamichael Kebrom

11 Sep 2019 by Seungchan Kim

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Feeding the Ten Billion: from Green Revolution to Gene Revolution

11 Sep 2019

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[DOD-CDMRP Translational Team Science Award] Development of Classifiers for Novel Bladder Cancer Subtypes

1 Jul 2019 by Seungchan Kim

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Single Cell Genomics at the Center for Computational Systems Biology

8 May 2019

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Gene Expression in Developing Goat Testes: Identification of a Caprine Spermatogenesis Transcriptome

24 Apr 2019

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Dr. Kebrom joins CCSB and CARC, as a Research Scientist for Plant Systems Biology

16 Apr 2019 by Seungchan Kim

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Radiation Dosimetry Measurements Onboard Air and Space Craft for Human Safety Programs and Cancer Epidemiology Studies

10 Apr 2019

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Neural Networks Based Feature Selection for Genetic Data Analysis

10 Apr 2019

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Cancer Research - A Physicist's View

27 Mar 2019

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Differential, tissue-specific effects of germline mutations on epithelial stem cell development

27 Feb 2019

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Validation of the Gene Master Regulators Theory for Cancer Gene Therapy

13 Feb 2019

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[CCSB Seminar Series] Computational Repurposing of Cancer Drugs: Big Data, Computational Analysis and Knowledge Fusion

30 Jan 2019

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2018

9 posts

Undergraduate Student Research Funding

16 Nov 2018 by Xishuang Dong

Drs Anna Joy and Dumitru Iacobas have been promoted to research faculty

1 Sep 2018 by Xishuang Dong

CCSB became a part of Half-Million Dollar Grant

15 Aug 2018 by Xishuang Dong

CCSB@PVAMU website is up and running

3 Aug 2018 by Seungchan Kim

CCSB Genomics Lab certified for BSL2

17 Jul 2018 by Seungchan Kim

Dr. Xishuang Dong accepted a tenure-track faculty position (ECE) for CCSB@PVAMU

15 Jun 2018 by Seungchan Kim

CCSB Signage Goes Up

3 May 2018 by Seungchan Kim

Dr. Youngblood awarded NSF HBCU-RIA grant in collaboration with CCSB@PVAMU - first of many more to come!

24 Apr 2018 by Seungchan Kim

First sequencing at CCSB@PVAMU - Humble Start

6 Apr 2018 by Seungchan Kim

2017

1 post

Drs. Lijuan Qian (PI), Xiangfang Li, Seungchan Kim and Pamela Obiomon awarded NSF-RISE grant.

26 Jun 2017 by Seungchan Kim