News and Announcements
- November 1, Dr. Ruan organized the First International Workshop on Graph Techniques for Biomedical Networks, in Washington DC.
- September 25, Dr. Ruan recieved a $124,117 NIH Recovery Act fund to supplement his existing NIH award. This fund will be used for hiring graduate research assistant. Interested students please contact him via email.
- July 25, 2009, Dr. Ruan and Drs. Sponsel and Sunter recieved a $150,000 NSF grant entitled "A combined biochemical, molecular and computational approach to understanding the regulation of gibberellin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis".
- April 06, 2009, Chengwei Lei, PhD student in Ruan's lab recieved a distinguished award in the UTSA Graduate Student Project Presentation Competition, for his research titled "A Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Finding DNA Sequence Motifs". Congratulations, Chengwei!
- December 12, 2008, Dr. Ruan recieved an NIH grant, with a total award amount of $433,500 for 4 years, to analyze the community structures of protein-protein interaction networks and gene co-expression networks. CS news
- November 4, 2008, A paper on "Variations in the transcriptome of Alzheimer's disease reveal molecular networks involved in cardiovascular diseases" in Genome Biology by M. Ray, J. Ruan and W. Zhang, is ranked the second most accessed paper in the last 30 days.
- October 31, 2008, Dr. Ruan presented a top-performance algorithm in the third annual DREAM Reverse Engineering Challenges held in MIT.
- March 19, 2008, our network community identificaiton algorithm has recieved wide media attention. Dr. Dobbs | Science Daily