news
May 1, 2017
Congratulations to Postdoctoral Researcher Mohammed El-Kebir who will start as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in January, 2018!
April 22, 2017
Welcome to new Postdoctoral Researcher Simone Zaccaria, who joined the group after receiving his Ph.D. from University of Milano-Bicocca.
September 1, 2016
The Raphael group has moved! Ben Raphael is now a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. We welcome applications for new students and postdocs.
May 11, 2016
Hsin-Ta Wu successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis, becoming the second Ph.D. recipient in Computational Biology and Computer Science at Brown University. Hsin-Ta will join Natera as a Senior Bioinformatician. Congratulations, Hsin-Ta!
April 27, 2016
Max Leiserson successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis, becoming the inaugural Ph.D. recipient in Computational Biology and Computer Science at Brown University. Max will be a postdoctoral fellow at Microsoft Research, New England in 2016-2017. In Fall 2017, he will become an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland. Congratulations, Max!
September 1, 2015
Dora Erdos joins the group as postdoctoral fellow. Dora completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Boston University. Welcome, Dora!
April 6, 2015
Raphael Lab on the move! Current Ph.D. student Layla Oesper and lab alums Anna Ritz and Crystal Valentine will start faculty positions in Fall 2015, at Carelton College, Reed College, and Amherst College, respectively. Congratulations!
March 31, 2015
Gryte Satas receives an Honorable Mention in the NSF Graduate Fellowship competition. Congratulations, Gryte!
February 1, 2015
Our HotNet2 paper is featured on the cover of Nature Genetics.
January 6, 2015
Nature Reviews Clincal Oncology publishes research highlight of our HotNet2 paper.
December 10, 2014
HotNet2 paper is published in Nature Genetics. Brown Press release; GenomeWeb story and Genomeweb article.
October 1, 2014
Mohammed El-Kebir joins the group as postdoctoral fellow. Mohammed completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at CWI. Welcome, Mohammed!
September 25, 2014
Layla Oesper wins a Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. Congratulations, Layla!
Aug 1, 2014
Matt Reyna joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow. Matt completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Welcome, Matt!
July 12, 2014
Layla Oesper wins “Best Presentation” at the HiT-Seq workshop for her presentation “Quantifying Tumor Heterogeneity in Whole-Genome and Whole-Exome Sequencing Data”. Congratulations, Layla!
July 8, 2014
Current and former students and postdocs of the Raphael Lab to present 5 research talks at the ISMB 2014. Congratulations to all!
June 30, 2014
Our high school summer research program, funded by an NSF CAREER grant is underway!
This year’s participants include Ava Brignol from Nobel and Greenough School in Dedham, MA, and Anthony Rolland from the Julia R. Masterman School in Philadelphia, PA.
May 5, 2014
The Raphael research group successfully defends the Watson Cup!
March 14, 2014
Iman Hajirasouliha receives a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations, Iman!
February 18, 2014
We have a new group website! Please take a look around and let us know if you see anything broken.
September 2, 2013
An article in Biotechniques describes our HotNet algorithm.
September 1, 2013
Group receives an R01 grant from NIH/NHGRI for “Computational Characterization of Genetic Heterogeneity.”
July 15, 2013
Gryte Satas joins the group from Washington University in St. Louis. Welcome Gryte!
May 23, 2013
Hsin-Ta and Max’s visualization of AML mutations is the Biomedical Picture of the Day.
May 1, 2013
Our group’s contribution’s to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project highlighted in Brown press release.
April 10, 2013
Our paper on [Genome-Wide Survival Analysis of Somatic Mutations in Cancer])(http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-37195-0_26) wins the Best Paper Award at RECOMB 2013 conference. Congratulations to Fabio and Alexandra!
January 7, 2013
Iman Hajirasouliha joins the group from Simon Fraser University. Welcome Iman!
November 27, 2012
Talk at 2nd The Cancer Genome Atlas Symposium on YouTube.
October 3, 2012
Group receives an NSF grant for big data analysis, as part of NSF’s Big Data Initiative.
March 30, 2012
Max Leiserson receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
March 1, 2012
Article in The Scientist discuses our Dendrix algorithm.
Feb. 8, 2012
Quoted in Nature Methods article on structural variation.
Nov. 30, 2011
Talk at The Cancer Genome Atlas Symposium on YouTube.
Oct. 17, 2011
The Cancer Genome Atlas article on HotNet.
Sept 20, 2011
Brown news feature describes HotNet contribution to The Cancer Genome Atlas.
June 13, 2011
Brown news story describes work on RNA splicing motifs, a collaboration with Will Fairbrother and Eric Lim.
April 5, 2011
Layla Oesper receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
January 3, 2011
Group receives R01 grant from NIH/NHGRI: Computational Approaches For Structural Variation Studies In Genomes.
December 16, 2010
Ben Raphael receives NSF CAREER award: CAREER: Algorithms for Next-Generation Genomics.
September 22, 2010
Crystal Kahn defends Ph.D. dissertation: Algorithms for Analyzing Human Genome Rearrangements.
August 15, 2010
Ben Raphael and Eli Upfal receive NSF grant: III: Small: Algorithmic Approaches for Pathway and Gene Group Analysis in Genetic Studies.
July 18, 2010
GenomeWeb article on strobe sequencing collaboration with Pacific Biosciences.
June 24-25, 2010
RECOMB Computational Cancer Biology (RECOMB-CCB 2010)
February 16, 2010
Ben Raphael receives Sloan Research Fellowship.
April 2, 2009
Genome Technology article “Genomics of Cancer.”
November 4, 2008
Scientific American’s “Where Are They Now?” finds Ben here.
April 1, 2008
Anna Ritz receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
September 18-20, 2007
RECOMB Computational Cancer Biology.
December 19, 2006
Microinversions paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Brown story. UCSD story. Drug Discovery News article.
December 1, 2006
Genome Technology names Ben Raphael one of Tomorrow’s PIs.