Professor Radicchi (Indiana University), a lab alumnus, is part of the new generation of scientists that are making significant contributions to the study of complex systems and networks. His many important contributions span from theoretical studies of structural and dynamical properties of networks, to analyses of large-scale empirical data about ...
New publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution
Congratulations to current graduate student Adam Hockenberry and recent PhD Irmak Sirer for their recent publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution! The genetic code uses 64 three letter words (codons) to code for a mere 20 amino acids, resulting in multiple ways to code the same protein chain. Usage of ...
Irmak Sirer awarded Ph.D.
Being fashionably late, Irmak Sirer, widely known as the sharpest dresser in the Amaral lab, successfully defended his doctoral thesis.
Chuyue Yang presents at Undergraduate Research & Arts Exposition
Sophomore Chuyue Yang was amongst a small number of undergraduate students selected to give an oral presentation at the Northwestern Undergraduate Research & Arts Exposition on June 2nd 2014. During her 2 years of research in the lab so far, she has investigated the usage of specific genetic motifs in ...
Want to do complex systems research?
Of course you do! The Amaral lab currently has several openings for Postdoctoral Fellows that we are looking to fill immediately. The main website page succinctly describes our main research areas (complex systems, systems biology, and science of science) and we currently have a number of exciting projects that focus ...
Patrick McMullen appointed Senior Scientist by The Hamner Institutes
Dr. Patrick McMullen and alumnus of the Amaral lab has been appointed as a Senior Scientist by The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences . McMullen is “mapping the mechanisms that translate a cellular input into a specific response”, with a focus on toxicity pathways.
Daniel Stouffer receives Rutherford Discovery Fellowship
Dr. Daniel Stouffer, currently a Senior Lecturer at the School of Biological Sciences at University of Canterbury, and an alumnus of the Amaral lab was awarded a prestigious Rutherford Discovery Fellowship by the Royal Society of New Zealand. The NZ$800,000 fellowship will fund Stouffer’s research for the next five years. ...
Amaral elected Fellow of American Physical Society
Luis Amaral has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society “for seminal advances in the characterization and modeling of complex systems, especially for the proposal and development of cartographic methods for the representation of large complex networks.”
Adam Pah awarded PhD
On Thursday, May 23th Adam Pah successfully defended his PhD thesis before his committee. During his time at the lab he worked on using a global metabolic network to predict metabolite conservation on individual organisms. He also created some powerful data visualization tools.
Roger Guimera receives Erdos-Renyi Prize in Network Science
Dr. Roger Guimera, an adjunct faculty in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Northwestern University and a Senior Researcher at ICREA, was awarded today the inaugural Erdo-Renyi Prize in Network Science. The prize, which is sponsored by the Network Science Society, acknowledges a scientist under 40 that has ...
Adam Hockenberry successfully passed his PhD proposal
On Friday, May 11, lab member Adam Hockenberry passed his PhD proposal and is now a PhD candidate in the Interdepartmental Program in Biological Sciences. His research is centered on uncovering how sequence elements of genes regulate protein expression levels and is in collaboration with Dr. Michael Jewett in the ...
Rufaro Mukogo awarded MSc
Congratulations to Rufaro Mukogo who, on monday, May 7th, successfully defended his master’s thesis.
The Amaral Lab welcomes Dr. Andrea Lancichinetti
Dr. Andrea Lancichinetti received his Ph.D. in Physics from Politecnico di Torino in Turin (Italy) in 2012. He joins the lab as a post-doctoral fellow. His research interests are focused on clustering algorithms in networks, null models for testing the significant of modules and benchmarking.
Nudging Doctors In Intensive Care Unit Reduces Deaths
Physicians for critically ill need “copilots” to remind them of important details By Marla Paul CHICAGO —- Caring for patients in a medical intensive care unit in a hospital and flying a 747 are complicated tasks that require tracking thousands of important details, some of which could get overlooked. That’s ...
Patrick McMullen awarded PhD
On Friday-the-thirteenth, Patrick successfully defended his doctoral thesis. His work involves building tools to understand complex biological systems through the application of physically-grounded models. He will be staying with the lab through the end of the summer.
Adam Pah and Nicolás Peláez win Chicago Biomedical Consortium Research Awards
Congratulations to Adam and Nico on their selection as two of the three Northwestern University recipients of research awards by the Chicago Biomedical Consortium. The monetary awards will go towards paying for their research expenses.