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This semester, two hands-on tutorials will be offered byMSI at UMR. These are:

Introduction to Matlab -- November 29 in room 414  Find out more >>

Galaxy Bioinformatics Workbench -- December 14 in room 397  Find out more>>
 

Congratulations to 2007 BICB trainee Dimitrije Jevremovic, who was recently chosen to receive for a second year the prestigious IBM Ph.D. Fellowship. The internationally highly competitive award will support Jevremovic's thesis research during 2011-12 on analysis of metabolic pathways in biochemical reaction networks.

"This recognition of the importance and quality of Dimitrije's work is well deserved and greatly appreciated. With this fellowship, Dimitrije has been able to make substantial progress in his research, developing novel divide-and-conquer techniques to compute the elementary pathways for much larger biochemical networks, while taking advantage of the high-performance computers at IBM and MSI". says computer science and engineering professor Daniel Boley, Ph.D., Jevremovic's advisor and the person who nominated him for the award.

The research Jevremovic will continue pursuing under the fellowship is a direct outgrowth of work he began in fall 2007 as part of his BICB traineeship. The fellowship will provide a stipend and cover educational expenses as will help ensure access to MSI and IBM computing resources for computation of metabolic pathways. Jevremovic is working toward a Ph.D. in computer science with a BICB minor.

"This fellowship has provided me with the opportunity to access leading edge technology at IBM as well as MSI. This has had a direct and positive impact on my research by allowing me not only to explore algorithms relevant to my work but with general applicability as well. I have been able to apply techniques for memory and communication optimization in my application", said Dimitrije.

Jevremovic's IBM mentor for the fellowship Carlos P Sosa, Ph.D., a member of his Ph.D. committee who has been coadvising him in the area of parallel computing and use of supercomputing resources. "I was particularly impressed with Dimitrije's work during the first year of this fellowship. It was a pleasure to recommend him for a second year. The BICB program provides a diverse environment. It gives a tremendous opportunity for talented students such as Dimitrije to experience multiple environments as well as technologies" said Sosa, a computational chemist with IBM and the University of Minnesota.