The Wall Lab Blog
MSU national autism study
By dennis on August 18th, 2009Michigan State University has been awarded a three-year, $2.1 million federal grant to serve as the data coordinating center for the largest epidemiological study ever on autism. Read more about it here.
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
Recent blog posts
- mining the text to quicken autism research
- new species of moth discovered in Hawaii
- Dr. Dennis 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
Science News - Biology and Nature
- A year after discovery, Congo's 'mother lode' of gorillas remains vulnerable
- Insect resistance to Bt crops can be predicted, monitored and managed
- Rescuing male turkey chicks
- New discovery about the formation of new brain cells
- Time of day matters to thirsty trees, U of T researcher discovers
- New chameleon species discovered in East Africa
- Killer fungus threatening amphibians
- New research shows versatility of amniotic fluid stem cells
- It's a gas: New discovery may lead to heartier, high-yielding plants
- Just like old times: Generating RNA molecules in water