CMRG News

  • November 2008: Two new systems biology papers in press in Nature Molecular Systems Biology and PLoS Computational Biology

  • September 2008: Congratulations to CMRG graduates Jake Feala, Ben Coppola, Anna Raskin and Jody Martin for successfully defending their PhD's this summer!

  • July 11th, 2008: Deadline for submission of papers to the session Emerging Challenges in Multi-Scale Modeling in Biology at the 14th Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, has been extended from 14 to 21 July 2008.

  • June 11th, 2008: Congratulations to CMRG doctoral students, Stuart Campbell (advised by Dr. McCulloch) and Amy Hsieh (advised by Dr. Ross) for receiving 2008 AHA Pre-Doctoral Fellowships!

  • April 15th, 2008: Congratulations to CMRG doctoral students, Stuart Campbell and Amy Hsieh for receiving 2008 UC San Diego Scholarship Awards!

  • March 24th, 2008: Researchers are cordially invited to submit papers and abstracts to the session Emerging Challenges in Multi-Scale Modeling in Biology at the 14th Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, from 5-9 January 2009 at the Big Island of Hawaii.

  • February 11th, 2008: Five new papers in 2008 span molecular to cell, tissue and organ scales.

  • January 1st, 2008: Happy New Year from CMRG

  • August 1st, 2007: CMRG Graduate Dr. Peter Costandi takes a Clinical and Systems Engineer position at St Jude Medical in Sylmar, CA

  • June 15th, 2007: Register now for the 1st Annual UCSD Interfaces Graduate Research Symposium.

  • June 9th, 2007: Congratulations to Amy Hsieh for receiving a 2007 TA Excellence Award for her teaching in BENG 186!

  • June, 2007: Ten new model papers in 2007 span molecular network to cell, tissue, organ and system scales.

  • June 7th-14th, 2007: Dr. McCulloch presents new research on Multi-scale cardiac modeling at a Center of Excellence in Biomedical Computing workshop at Simula Research Lab in Oslo, Norway.

  • June 7th-9th, 2007: Dr. Roy Kerckhoffs presents new results on cardiac resynchronization therapy at FIMH 2007 in Salt Lake City.

  • April 28th, 2007: Dr. McCulloch talks to Robyn Williams about Modeling the Heart on the Australian Broadcasting System's The Science Show.

  • April 23rd, 2007: Dr. McCulloch talks about Multi-scale modeling of inherited arrhythmia mechanisms at the 32nd ISCE Meeting in Cancun, Mexico.

  • March 18th-23rd, 2007: Dr. McCulloch talks about Short- and long-term mechanoelectric feedback mechanisms at the Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms Gordon Research Conference in Ventura, CA. Adam Wright presents his research with Dr. Robert Ross on optical mapping in vinculin-deficient mice.

  • March 14th, 2007: Dr. McCulloch talks about Cardiac Systems Biology at the SIMBIOS seminar at Stanford University.

  • March 5th, 2007: Dr. Jeff Jacots presents his findings on the Effect of substrate elasticity on development of contractile function and calcium transients in neonatal rat cardiomyocytes at the 2007 Biophysical Society Meeting in Baltimore, MD.

  • February 20th, 2007: Dr. McCulloch talks about Multi-scale computational biology of the heart at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering at Costa Mesa, CA.

  • February, 2007: Five new model papers in 2007 span molecular network to whole cell to organ system scales.

  • December 18th, 2006: CMRG Holiday Party!

  • December 4th-5th, 2006: Dr. McCulloch talks about Systems Biology of Cardiac Regulatory Networks at the Third Annual Meeting of the Cell Biodynamics Simulation Project at Kyoto University.

  • November 13th, 2006: Dr. McCulloch gives the departmental seminar in the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Minnesota.

  • November 5th-6th, 2006: Karen Wei presents her work on Designing a 3-D Tissue Culture Platform for Cardiac Regeneration at the Third Annual GREAT Training Retreat in Laguna Beach.

  • October 21st, 2006: Dr. McCulloch gives a keynote address on Cardiac Systems Biology and Multi-Scale Modeling at the student-organized BCATS Symposium at Stanford.

  • October 2nd-6th, 2006: Drs. McCulloch and Omens represented CMRG at a workshop on Cardiac Mechanics and Remodeling at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute at Ohio State.

  • September 12th, 2006: Dr. McCulloch gave the Konrad Witzig Memorial Lecture at the 17th Congress of the CSDS in Vaals, The Netherlands.

  • September 11th, 2006: Dr. Tayo Fakunle joins CMRG from the University of Arkansas.

  • September 8th, 2006: New MoinMoin Wiki-based website goes online.