Welcome to Computational Population Biology at UIC


Professor Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf

Computational Population Biology at UIC

Flu pandemic, political microtargeting, behavioral response to predator presence, species genetic diversity. Populations contain intricate connections that occur on time scales ranging from milliseconds to generations. At the Laboratory for Computational Population Biology, we explore the growing interface between Population Biology and Computer Science, from genetics to social interactions.

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The winning entry to the 2010 UIC Image of Research contest, describing the image preprocessing stage of an algorithm to automatically identify individual zebras from photographs. See the Projects page for more information.
Credit: Mayank Lahiri · License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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April 2012
Tanya receives the UIC Graduate College Graduate Mentoring Award.
Marco receives the 1st place at Research @ UIC .

March 2012
Marco defends MS in BioE.
Chayant gets an internship with Google.
Habiba gets an internship with Microsoft Research.
Rajmonda gives invited talks at IIT and University of Chicago.

January 2012 Marco, Chayant, Islam, and Tanya go to Kenya.

December 2011 Chayant, Habiba, Rajmonda, and Tanya go to Vancouver to present their work at the ICDM Conference 2011.

November 2011
Marco receives the Fall 2011 UIC Chancellor Graduate Research Fellowship.
Rajmonda and Chayant receive NSF Travel Award for ICDM 2011.

September 2011
Habiba receives the "50 of the Future" award.
Tanya receives NSF grant for the Field course in Tropical Biology .

May 2011
Alan is the 2011 CoE Commencement speaker.
Chayant receives outstanding teaching assistant award.

March 2011
Mayank successfully defends his PhD.
Arun successfully defends his PhD.