Science News - Biology and Nature
- Ants are friendly to some trees, but not others
- Possible help in fight against muscle-wasting disease
- Pathogen protection and virulence: Dark side of fungal membrane protein revealed
- DNA molecules in moss open door to new biotechnology
- Genomes of biofuel yeasts reveal clues that could boost fuel ethanol production worldwide
- CU-Boulder map of human bacterial diversity shows wide interpersonal differences
- Horse genome sequence and analysis published in Science
- Caught in the act: Butterfly mate preference shows how 1 species can become 2
- Study reveals how plants and bacteria 'talk' to thwart disease
- Why nice guys usually get the girls
Recent blog posts
- Dr. Wall in Children's Hospital News
- MSU national autism study
- Dennis Wall is now a member of Faculty of 1000
- Call for Papers -- Evolutionary Bioinformatics
- connecting diseases through the phenotyic disease network
- Dennis Wall is a "scientist to watch"
- autistic children express themselves in 3D with assistance from Google
- number of genome-wide association studies rising fast
- skateboarding
- New NLP tools
Emerging Autism Research
- Helping families find the best evidence: CAM therapies for autism spectrum disorders and Asperger's Disorder.
- What research questions matter to Australian paediatricians? National Delphi Study.
- Medication and Parent Training in Children With Pervasive Developmental Disorders and Serious Behavior Problems: Results From a Randomized Clinical Trial.
- Comorbidity study of ADHD: Applying association rule mining (ARM) to National Health Insurance Database of Taiwan.
- A common neural system mediating two different forms of social judgement.
About our Lab
Our lab is interested in computational approaches to understanding biological function and the genetic basis of diseases. Our work falls into three interrelated aims.
- Predicting functional network organization of the cell
- Network scale analysis of complex multigenic disorders
- Autworks: decoding the genotype-phenotype map for Autism