2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001

|| November 9, 2002 ||
Bernard Testa Visits VCU. On Saturday, Nov. 9, noted Swiss scientist Bernard Testa arrived for an extended visited to VCU as the first external fellow of VCU's Center for the Study of Biological Complexity. Read News Article Here.

|| October 15, 2002 ||
CSBC Awarded BBSI Grant. VCU's Center for the Study of Biological Complexity receives one of only nine grants awarded by NIH's new National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and the National Science Foundation to support a new Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institute (BBSI) at VCU.Read More Here.

|| June 13, 2002 ||
Launch of the Bioinformatics Computational Core Laboratory. On Thursday, June 13, the Bioinformatics Computational Core Laboratories (BSSL) of the CSBC were dedicated. These laboratories include the SuperComputing Cluster, the Video Conferencing and Distance Learning Laboratory, and the Research Laboratories. The BCCL is housed in newly renovated space on the first floor of the Trani Center for Life Sciences.

|| June 12-14, 2002 ||
The VBC Bioinformatics and Pharmacogenomics Symposium. On June 12, the CSBC and the Institute of Structural Biology and Drug Discovery will co-host a symposium on bioinformatics and pharmacogenomics to be held in the Omni Richmond Hotel, the Virginia Biotechnology Research Park, and the Trani Center for Life Sciences of VCU.

|| June 1, 2002 ||
Establishment of the VCU Supercomputing Systems Group. On June 1, the VCU Supercomputing Systems Group (VSSG), co-sponsored by the CSBC and Web and Research Computing of VCU Academic Technology, was created. The VSSG will be responsible for operation and maintenance of CSBC SuperComputing Cluster and other research based servers and hardware at VCU. The VSSG will be housed in renovated laboratory space on the second floor of the Trani Center for Life Sciences, in close proximity to the Bioinformatics Computational Core Laboratories.

|| May 15, 2002 ||
Appointment of coordinator of pathogen genomics. Todd O. Kitten, Ph.D., assistant professor of oral and molecular biology in the Philips Institute for Oral and Craniofacial Molecular Biology, was appointed coordinator of pathogen genomics. His responsibilities will be to develop research and curricular offerings in the area of microbial genomics and pathogenesis.

|| April 1, 2002 ||
Appointment of coordinator of bioinformatics and genomics. Jeffrey Elhai, Ph.D., visiting professor in biology, was appointed curriculum coordinator of bioinformatics and genomics in the CSBC. Elhai coordinates the international effort to annotate the genomes of a half-dozen cyanobacteria genomes that have recently been sequenced. In addition to his research efforts, Elhai will be responsible for development of undergraduate and graduate curricula in bioinformatics and genomics in the CSBC.

|| March 1, 2002 ||
Appointment of director of research and development. On March 1, Tarynn M. Witten, M.D./Ph.D., was appointed director of research and development of the CSBC. Witten is a theoretical mathematician and complexity theorist. She was a graduate student with Dr. Robert Rosen, one of the founders of the complexity movement. She previously directed the development of the University of Texas Supercomputer Center in Austin, and will oversee development of the Bioinformatics Computational Core Laboratories and its supercomputing capabilities.

|| January 1, 2002 ||
Mucosal Autoimmunity Project. On Jan. 1, 2002, the CSBC was awarded a three-year $1.2 million award to hire faculty in the area of genomics of microbial pathogens from the Commonwealth Technology Research Fund. This grant is a component of a $3.6 million grant shared by VCU, UVA and Virginia Tech, to discover and study potential vaccinogens for mucosal pathogens, to assess routes of administration of these vaccinogens, and to generate and test potential vaccines.

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