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2023
New temporary part-time work position
We are hiring a Phylogenetics and Artificial Intelligence Specialist General Information Position Number: STMP15 Working Title: Phylogenetics and Artificial Intelligence Specialist Work Unit: CIPHER Vacancy: Open To All Candidates Position Designation: Non-Student Temporary Employment Type: Temporary - Part-time Hours per week: 20 Work Schedule: M-F 4hrs per day Pay Rate: $20 to $25 per hour Minimum Experience/Education: Master’s degree in computer science, bioinformati...
A new HPC training module for UNC Charlotte's URC
I have been talking to the people from UNC Charlotte’s Office of One IT and students from our graduate program in bioinformatics about potentially creating a training module to help users of our University Research Cluster (URC; see https://oneit.charlotte.edu/urc/research-clusters). We are just brainstorming at this stage, and your opinion could really help us while we are trying to think about how this could work. Please use the “CONTRIBUTE” button (below) to submit ideas of topics, proble...
SMART AND SECURE FUTURE COMPUTING General Information What: Summer REU in Computing When: from May 30 to August 04, 2023 Priority date: March 20 (applications will be accepeted while positions last) Website: (reu.charlotte.edu)[https://reu.charlotte.edu/] Funding: National Science Foundation (NSF) Details The CCI’s REU site (funded by NSF) will return to an in-person program this summer. Join the Phyloinformatics Lab or other labs in the UNC Charlotte’s campus for a 9-week res...
Our Work is a Top Cited Article Cladistics has announced that our article is one of the most cited in 2021-22. The paper title is “Fundamental evolution of all Orthocoronavirinae including three deadly lineages descendent from Chiroptera-hosted coronaviruses: SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2,” and the abstract is below. Abstract The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) emerged in humans in 2002. Despite reports showing Chiroptera as the original animal reservoir of SAR...
Tucana is our New High-Memory Computer Node
Tucana is now online Tucana is a new large memory machine acquired by the Phyloinformatics Lab and added to UNC Charlotte’s University Research Cluster (URC). Tucana has 64 cores (2 x AMD EPYC 7513 2.6GHz, 32C/64T, 128M Cache, 200W, DDR4-3200), 4,096GB RAM (32 x 128GB LRDIMM, 3200MT/s, Quad Rank 480GB SSD SATA Mix Use 6Gbps 512 2.5in Hot-plug AG Drive,3.5in HYB CARR, 3 DWPD), a 480GB SSD (SATA Mix Use 6Gbps 512 2.5in Hot-plug AG Drive,3.5in HYB CARR, 3 DWPDand), and a CONNECTX 6 VPI ADAPT C...
2022
ATTENTION: THIS POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED AND THE JOB POST HAS BEEN CLOSED. We are hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioinformatics and Genomics General Information Position Number: POST40 (all postdoc positions have the same number) Working Title: Postdoctoral Fellow: Bioinformatics and Genomics College: College of Computing and Informatics (CCI) Department: Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics (BiG) Work Location: CCI, BiG, CIPHER center Vacancy Open To: All Candidates E...
AI Software Nearly Predicted Omicron’s Tricky Structure Our research on the protein structure of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron spike protein and how it is predicted to interact with neutralizing antibodies was mentioned written by Tom Simonite and published in WIRED. The peer-reviewed publication was published by Frontiers in Virology on February 7, 2022. Read original article Read the paper
2021
Our research was featured in the cover of Cladistics On September 27, 2022, the cover of Volume 37, Issue 5 of Cladistics was designed by Dr. Denis Jacob Machado and inspired on a paper publised in that same issue. The paper entitled “Fundamental evolution of all Orthocoronavirinae including three deadly lineages descendent from Chiroptera-hosted coronaviruses: SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2” was co-authored by Rachel Scott, Sayal Guirales, and Daniel A. Janies. Check the co...
Listen to our interview with Finding Genious
Viral Genome Annotation and Comparative Genomics Through Evolutionary Processes Richard Jacobs interviewed Dr. Denis Jacob Machado for the Finding Genius podcast. See the full description of that episode and its link below. Episode description How can we view evolution through comparative genomics? By understanding how viruses and various organisms have evolved, new views of world issues can be gained. Listen up to learn: How long have specific viruses been known to us Why complex r...
Our research in the largest Brazilian newspaper
Largest evolutionary study of coronavirus confirms origin of Sars-CoV-2 from bats to humans Ana Botallo interviewed Dr. Denis Jacob Machado for Folha de São Paulo, the largest Brazilian newspaper. This special scientific article discusses Dr. Jacob Machado’s phylogenetic analysis of all coronaviruses and lessons learned from it. Click here for a digital version of this article, written in Portuguse (last accessed: Aug. 9, 2021). Read original article online