News
| 2013-08-21 | WholeCellViz is published in BMC Bioinformatics!
More information: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/14/253 |
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| 2013-02-28 | Markus Covert is granted the Allen Distinguished Investigators Award!
More information: http://www.pgafamilyfoundation.org/TemplateMain.aspx?contentId=63 |
| 2012-11-21 | WholeCellKB is published in Nucleic Acids Research!
More information: http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/11/21/nar.gks1108.abstract?keytype=ref%2520Full%2520Text%3A&ijkey=Oz3ccpNsalasbXU |
| 2012-11-02 | BBC coverage on the Whole Cell Model!
More information: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121102-will-we-ever-crack-lifes-code/1 |
| 2012-10-29 | "Neuron-to-Neuron Transmission of α-Synuclein Fibrils Through Axonal Transport" by Nate and Markus (in collaboration with Michel Brahic, Eric Freundt, and Karla Kirkegaard) published in Annals of Neurology.
More information: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ana.23747/pdf |
| 2012-10-18 | Host metabolic interaction during phage replication by Elsa, Nick, and Markus published in PloS Computational Biology
More information: http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002746 |
| 2012-09-10 | Nature Biotechnology paper by Gunawardena on Whole-Cell Modeling!
More information: http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v30/n9/full/nbt.2358.html |
| 2012-07-20 | Whole cell model hits Cell journal and the New York Times!
News coverage: New York Times - In First, Software Emulates Lifespan of Entire Organism The Chronicle of Higher Education - Stanford Researchers Produce First Computer Model of Living Organism More information: http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(12)00776-3 |
| 2012-06-16 | Markus hoods Jonathan at commencement!
More information: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7avwaetbe8pdbph/V5l_RyjT0T |
| 2012-03-02 | Covert Lab highlighted in the Harvard Department of Systems Biology blog! Congratulations to Nate and Derek for their exciting work!
More information: http://ittakes30.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/learning-from-the-enemy/ |
| 2012-01-30 | January 2012: Markus visits UCSD to discuss whole-cell modeling with (from left): Sydney Brenner, Bernhard Palsson, Markus Herrgard, [Markus C.], Iman Famili, and Jochen Forster. It was a great trip!
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| 2011-12-05 | Several members of the Bioengineering Department were recently interviewed for a Stanford video -- find Markus' interview here:
More information: http://www.youtube.com/user/stanfordeng#p/a/u/0/P4OZUFCew0U |
| 2011-01-11 | New Patent! Methods and systems to identify operational reaction pathways
More information: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7869957.pdf |
| 2011-01-07 | January 7th's issue of Science has a News Focus on single cell analysis that mentions the Covert lab.
More information: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6013/24.1.full |
| 2010-10-14 | Dalai Lama visits Stanford University under the watchful care of Lab Alum Thi Van Anh Thach! CCARE (From left to right: Thi Van Anh Thach, James R. Doty, M.D., Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Joel Finkelstein)
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| 2010-09-19 | Dr. Karla Kirkegaard and Dr. Markus Covert were awarded by the Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Committee (IIP) for their proposal on "Quantitative analysis of virus spread with and without cell lysis". |
| 2010-09-17 | Jake wins MATLAB central File Exchange Pick of the Week award for a struct sorting function! Congrats Jake!
More information: http://blogs.mathworks.com/pick/2010/09/17/sorting-structure-arrays-based-on-fields/ |
| 2010-09-09 | Markus Covert presented "Heterogeneous cellular responses via noisy
paracrine signals" at the Quantitative analysis of dynamic signalling:
A focus on the NF-kB system at the University of Liverpool, 9th September 2010. From left to right: Michael White, Stephanie Baldwin, Markus Covert, Dean Jackson, Myong-Hee "Mia" Sung
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| 2010-06-17 | The CSB2 Prize in Computational Biology, sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim, awarded Markus Covert, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University. This prize is awarded annually to a junior investigator for exceptional contributions to the development of innovative modeling and computational methods, as judged by technical quality, wide utility, and theoretical insight. Dr. Covert is recognized for the development of computational models to study the NF-kappaB family, metabolic networks, and a range of mammalian signaling networks. The prize was presented by John Burkem, Ph.D.,
Associate Director, Systems Biology Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals.
Markus Covert is awarded the CSB2 Prize in Computational Biology More information: http://www.flickr.com/photos/48921141@N07/4748787297/ |
| 2010-06-07 | Markus Covert named as a recipient of the Hellman Faculty Scholar Award for his research in "A Comprehensive Computational Model of a Microbial Cell." The Hellman Faculty Scholar fund was established in 2000 by Warren and Chris Hellman to support and encourage promising assistant professors. The Hellmans are aware that it is often difficult for junior faculty to obtain support for research after initial research funding has been expended. In an effort to support the next generation of tenure-track professors, they designed this award to offer assistance to promising young faculty in areas concerning the physical and life sciences, engineering, arts, humanities and social sciences. Dr. Covert is a member of the seventh cohort of scholars named at Stanford. |
| 2010-06-01 | Covert Lab shows up in June issue of Stanford Med School Magazine.
More information: http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2010summer/upfront.html |
| 2010-04-23 | Newest group photo -- from left: Elsa, Tim, Jayodita, Jake, Thi, Markus, Miriam, Nate, Jonathan.
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| 2010-04-08 | Jake passed his quals -- congrats! |
| 2010-04-01 | New paper in PLoS Genetics! Nate Maynard, Elsa Birch, Jayodita Sanghvi, Miriam Gutschow and former rotation student Lu Chen (now in the Bryant lab) put together this work.
More information: http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1001017 |
| 2010-03-01 | New paper in Nature! Jake Hughey and Tim Lee worked on this together with our collaborators Steve Quake, Savas Tay and Tomek Lipniacki.
More information: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7303/full/nature09145.html |
| 2010-03-01 | Jonathan passed his quals -- congrats! |
| 2010-02-22 | In a purely logistical sense, biology can really get in the way of biological research. Cells must be cultured, nurtured, and then perturbed according to an experiment's protocol. It can be slow, demanding, and expensive work. While most kinds of scientists and engineers can use computer simulations to speed up their research, there has been no such thing as a virtual cell. Now one is taking shape in the research group of bioengineering assistant professor Markus Covert. In a matter of months, he expects to unveil the first "whole-cell" computer model of an organism.
Virtual cell would bring benefits of computer simulation to biology More information: http://soe.stanford.edu/research/profiles/profile_more.html?G=71 |
| 2010-02-08 | Jayodita passed her quals -- congrats! |
| 2010-02-05 | Stanford Engineering Research Profile on the Covert Lab! This one focuses on the virtual cell.
More information: http://soe.stanford.edu/research/pdfs/covert.pdf |
| 2010-01-21 | Andre Nantel of the National Research Council of Canada gave us a shout-out in Faculty of 1000 for our recent BMC Systems Biology paper "A dynamic network of transcription in LPS-treated human subjects". Andre wrote "I found this to be a very well-written paper that clearly illustrates the potential future importance and application of Network Component Analysis (NCA), a computational method that combines global transcriptional profiling with interaction data to compute an estimate of transcription factor activities over time."
More information: http://f1000biology.com/article/id/1555996 |
| 2010-01-08 | Tim passed his quals -- congrats! |
| 2009-12-26 | The Bryant, Huang and Covert Labs unite for a retreat in Monterey!
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| 2009-11-12 | Covert lab learns to cook at the San Francisco Ferry Building!
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| 2009-10-31 | Covert Lab decides to dress up for Halloween as ... Markus!
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| 2009-09-30 | New paper in Science Signaling! Tim Lee led this effort, which almost everyone in the lab worked on.
More information: http://stke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sigtrans;2/93/ra65 |
| 2009-09-24 | Covert Lab wins the NIH Directors Pioneer Award, designed to support individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering and possibly transforming approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research.
Heres a picture of the award ceremony with NIH Director Francis Collins. More information: http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/pioneer/Recipients09.aspx |
| 2009-09-18 | Elsa passed her quals -- congrats! |
| 2009-08-30 | Stanford hosts ICSB 2009. Record-breaking attendance, terrific speakers, fantastic time.
More information: http://www.icsb-2009.org |
| 2009-08-14 | New paper in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine! Jake Hughey and Tim Lee wrote this review of signal transduction modeling.
More information: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122541908/abstract |
| 2009-07-28 | New paper in BMC Systems Biology! The work was done by Junhee Seok, a student from Ron Davis lab who worked on this for his final project in my BioE 310 Systems Biology class.2009_11_12_01
More information: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1752-0509/3/78 |
| 2009-06-17 | New paper in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine! Nate Maynard worked on this review of metabolic network analysis with Joerg Stelling and Marco Terzer at the ETH.
More information: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122456827/abstract |
| 2009-05-01 | Elsa wins a Bio-X Graduate Fellowship congratulations!
More information: http://biox.stanford.edu/grant/fellows/birch.html |
| 2008-09-01 | Markus answers Stanford Engineerings Ask the Expert question: How do cells know how to work together?
More information: http://engineering.stanford.edu/research/pdfs/pdf_covert.pdf |
| 2008-07-08 | New paper in Bioinformatics! Jonathan Karr worked on this, together with rotation students Tiffany Chen and Nan Xiao.
More information: http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/24/18/2044 |
| 2008-05-01 | Covert Lab saves the San Francisco Bay! Okay, not entirely by ourselves, but we cleared out a bunch of non-native stinging nettle and other painful plants.
No one in the lab has ever seen the guy on the left, hes a lab photo crasher. More information: http://commpartnerday.stanford.edu/ |
| 2008-04-02 | Jonathan wins a NDSEG Graduate Fellowship congratulations!
More information: http://ndseg.asee.org/ |
| 2008-03-31 | Jayodita and Jonathan win National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships congratulations!
More information: http://www.nsfgrfp.org/ |
| 2007-03-01 | Jake wins a Bio-X Bioengineering Graduate Fellowship congratulations!
More information: http://biox.stanford.edu/grant/fellows/hughey.html |
| 2007-03-01 | Tim wins an Stanford Graduate Fellowship (SGF) congratulations!
More information: http://sgf.stanford.edu |
| 2007-03-01 | Jayodita wins a Bio-X Bioengineering Graduate Fellowship congratulations!
More information: http://biox.stanford.edu/grant/fellows/sanghvi.html |
| 2007-01-02 | Covert comes to Bioengineering from CalTech where he was a postdoctoral scholar. Covert's research is in building computational models of complex biological processes and using these models to guide experimental programs that involve the dynamic behavior of NF-kappaB, an important family of transcription factors whose aberrant activity has been linked to oncogenesis, tumor progression, and resistance to chemotherapy.
More information: http://bioengineering.stanford.edu/about/history.html |
| 2006-06-01 | Jonathan wins a DHS Graduate Fellowship congratulations!
More information: http://www.orau.gov/dhsed/ |
| 2006-03-01 | Jonathan wins a Stanford Graduate Fellowship (SGF) congratulations!
More information: http://sgf.stanford.edu |
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