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Our paper on hate circuit ranked as #1 most viewed paper in Nature Molecular Psychiatry

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:32:02 GMT

Our group's paper titled Depression uncouples brain hate circuit published recently in Nature Molecular Psychiatry has been ranked as #1 most viewed paper in the journal during the month of January 2013.

In a related development, Tian Ge, who is one of the co-authors of this paper, has received the prestigious Heng-Yuan-Xiang award for his outstanding achievements as a student in sensory, psychological or cognitive neuroscience and related areas.

Dr Rajpoot awarded international grant for research on cancer prognostics

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:19:05 GMT

A consortium of four academic and clinical institutes has won an international grant for a research project on novel multiplex prognostic biomarkers for colorectal cancer via computerised analysis of multi-protein fluorescence images. The research project led by Dr Nasir Rajpoot has been awarded the total amount of $1.05m by the Qatar Foundation. The consortium involves academic and clinical partners based in the UK and Qatar. The research team at Warwick will be composed of two new researchers and key investigators in Dr Nasir Rajpoot (Computer Science), Dr Mike Khan (Life Sciences), Prof David Epstein (Mathematics), and Dr Rich Savage (Systems Biology).

CASE PhD Studentship Opportunity

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 11:29:53 GMT

A fully funded PhD studentship is available in the Computational Biology & Bioimaging (COMBI) research group under the supervision of Dr Nasir Rajpoot (Computer Science) and Prof Ian Cree (Warwick Medical School). The PhD research project, jointly funded by EPSRC and GE Healthcare, is titled Computer-Assisted Assessment of Digital Pathology Slides and is concerned with developing algorithms for modelling and analysis of morphological patterns in multi-gigapixel microscopic images of human tissue with applications to computer-assisted assessment and grading of digital pathology images. Part of the research may involve extending a patent-pending technology to a real-world clinical setting. The project is partly funded by GE Healthcare, the largest manufacturer of medical imaging devices worldwide, and will involve active collaboration with Dr David Snead, Head of Pathology at the University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (UHCW) and GE Omnyx teams at UHCW and in Pittsburgh, USA.

Tian Ge to give a talk at the OHBM 2012 annual meeting

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:47:38 GMT

Tian Ge, a PhD student in COMBI working with Prof Feng, will give an oral presentation (approx. 1% acceptance rate) titled 'Increasing Power for Voxel-wise Genome-wide Association Studies' (joint work with Dr Thomas Nichols in Warwick Statistics department and Prof Pual Thompson at UCLA) at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) annual meeting to be held in Beijing in June, 2012.

Nasir Rajpoot to co-chair the international workshop on Histopathology Image Analysis (HIMA)

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:01:55 GMT

Dr Nasir Rajpoot will co-chair the workshop on Histopathology Image Analysis (HIMA) to be held in conjunction with MICCAI, the premier medical imaging conference, in October 2012.

Prof Feng to chair the International Symposium on Nonlinear Sciences And Applications

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:28:38 GMT

Prof Feng will co-chair the 5th Shanghai International Symposium on Nonlinear Sciences and Applications (Shanghai NSA'12) will be held at Fudan University in Shanghai and on a Yangtze cruise from Yichang to Chongqing on June 27-July 3, 2012. The symposium will feature several keynote speakers including Prof James Yorke, winner of the prestigious Tokyo prize. More details

Prof Jianfeng Feng receives Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:07:44 GMT

Dr Timofeeva to chair workshop on Calcium dynamics in neuronal and glial cells

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:43:19 GMT

COMBI faculty Dr Yulia Timofeeva will chair a workshop titled 'Calcium dynamics in neuronal and glial cells' to be held at Warwick on April 4, 2011. This workshop will focus on the important role of calcium in controlling a great variety of neuronal and glial processes and on the bidirectional communication between glia and neurons. It will bring together experimentalists and theoreticians working in the fields of neuroscience and cell biology for a critical discussion of recent results and future directions. For more info, click here.

Keynote speech on bioimage computing at ICMV'2010

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:42:20 GMT

Dr Rajpoot gave a keynote speech titled Image Computing for Life Sciences at the International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV'2010) held in Islamabad during December 29-31, 2010. His talk focussed on some recent developments in the rapidly emerging area of Bioimage Computing which is allowing us to study the dynamic processes of life in a new light.

Featured research on reliable characterization of locomotor dynamics

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:31:44 GMT

Zhang J., Zhang K, Feng JF , Small M. (2010). Understanding Rhythmic Dynamics and Synchronization in Human Gait through Dimensionality Reduction PLoS Comp. Biol. 6(12): e1001033. (selected as Featured Research,IF=5.9).