Dispatches

The Amaral Lab welcomes Dr. Filippo Radicchi

Dr. Filippo Radicchi received his Ph.D. in Physics from Jacobs University in Bremen (Germany) in 2007. He joins the lab as a post-doctoral fellow. His research interests are focused on the application of methods and tools of statistical physics to the study of complex systems and networks.

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Patrick McMullen named Runner-Up Distinguished Graduate Researcher

Patrick has been selected as the Runner-Up for the 2010 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Distinguished Graduate Researcher Award. Patrick accepted the honor at this year’s department retreat, at which he was invited to speak about his work.

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Irmak Sirer Awarded Teaching Assistant of the Year

Congratulations to Irmak Sirer on receiving the 2010 Teaching Assistant of the Year Award for the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department. Irmak was selected for the award based on student nominations and faculty feedback.

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The Amaral Lab welcomes Dr. Jane Wang

The Amaral Lab welcomes Dr. Jane Wang as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Dr Wang earned her Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the University of Michigan in 2010. She will be taking up a joint appointment with the Booth Lab in the Department of Communications and Disorders.

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Nicolás Peláez passes his qualifying exam

Congratulations to Nico on an excellent talk and the successful defense of his proposal! He is now a Ph.D. candidate.

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Making microarrays a truly high-throughput tool

Download manuscript Microarrays are nowadays a widely used tool for probing the set of genes expressed under different conditions. In spite of the fact that this technology has been around for about 15 years, there is still a widespread distrust of the experimental results obtained through microarray experiments. Because of ...

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Peter Winter receives fellowship from the Interdisciplinary Cluster of Predictive Science

Peter has been awarded a fellowship from the Interdisciplinary Cluster of Predictive Scienceand Engineering Design, which celebrates collaborations across department lines. Peter, who works jointly between the Amaral Lab and Richard Morimoto’s group in the Department of Molecular Biosciences, will receive support for training in modeling and simulation techniques.

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Footballer Rating: Using science to identify true football/soccer stars

World Cup 2010 player ratings [dead link] Listen to All Things Considered (NPR) Interview (Guy Raz) Check latest Cosmic Log on our analysis (Alan Boyle, MSNBC) Listen to Science News (Science) podcast Listen to Scientific American podcast (Cynthia Graber) Listen to National Academy of Engineering’s Engineering Innovation Podcast and Radio ...

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Mentor-protégé relationships: Age gap really does matter

Listen to the Nature podcast | Download manuscript A new Northwestern University study of mentor-protégé relationships has found something that parents and children have known for a long time: the generation gap is real, and it matters. It not only affects communication but also who mentors young mathematicians successfully and ...

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Dr. Sawardecker-Amundsen successfully defends her PhD Thesis

Erin N. Sawardecker successfully defends her PhD thesis. Erin has worked on verifying the effectiveness of different algorithms in detecting the group membership of nodes within a network. She has taken a job at Conoco Phillips and will be starting this summer.

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Adam Pah passes qualifying exam

Adam Pah has passed his IBiS department Qualifying Exam and is now admitted to PhD candidacy.

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Alumnus' research featured in Ecology Letters.

The persistence of species in an ecosystem is strongly influenced by the food web — the network of predator-prey interactions between species. Amaral lab alumnus Daniel Stouffer and his post-doctoral advisor Jordi Bascompte demonstrate that specific interaction patterns confer persistence upon the community whereas others have the opposite effect. Moreover, ...

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Facebook (and Systems Biologists) Take Note: Network Analysis Reveals True Connections

Facebook figures out that you know Holly, although you haven’t seen her in 10 years, because you have four mutual friends — a good predictor of direct friendship. But sometimes Facebook gets it wrong. “Hey, I don’t know Harry!” Roger Guimera and Marta Sales-Pardo, a husband-wife research team at Northwestern ...

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Rufaro Mukogo and Xiaohan Zeng (ChBE) join the Amaral lab for their thesis work.

Rufaro Mukogo and Xiaohan Zeng (ChBE Department) both join the Amaral Lab for their graduate research and thesis work.

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Dr. Stringer successfully defends his PhD Thesis

Michael J. Stringer successfully defends his PhD thesis. Mike has worked on a complex systems approach to bibliometrics, the quantitative study of the scientific process. His contributions include an analysis of the effectiveness of journal ranking schemes as a tool for locating information (available here) and a study of the ...

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How would Einstein use email?

You’re not as different from Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin after all, at least when it comes to patterns of correspondence. A new Northwestern University study of human behavior has determined that those who wrote letters using pen and paper — long before electronic mail existed — did so in ...

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Postdoctoral positions

The Amaral Lab invites applications for several postdoctoral positions. We conduct high-impact research in the area of complex systems. Current research projects include systems-level study of cellular metabolism, modeling of ecosystem structure and robustness, modeling of human activity patterns, and quantification of research productivity. Hires will be expected to conduct ...

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Dr. Malmgren successfully defends his PhD Thesis

R. Dean Malmgren successfully defends his PhD thesis. Dean’s work has revolved around understanding complex systems from the behavior of their constituents. In particular, Dean has focused on understanding human activity patterns, and his work has been published in top journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

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Adam Pah admitted to Biotechnology Training Program

Adam Pah has been admitted to the NIH-funded Biotechnology Training Program. The Northwestern Biotechnology Training Program is an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental program which provides select graduate students (Trainees) greater research and training opportunities than those available through the individual departments. It promotes interdisciplinary education in biotechnology, interactions among faculty and ...

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Amaral promoted to Full Professor

Northwestern University has promoted Luís Amaral to the rank of Full Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering.

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