Council on Academic Computing
December 13, 2007
Meeting Summary
Report from
Computing Services and Systems Development
Jinx Walton, Director of Computing Services and Systems
Development, discussed several aspects of CSSD operations:
Department of
Computational Biology
Ivet
Bahar, Chair of the Department of Computational Biology, discussed research in
her department. Computational biology
was established as a research discipline at the University in 2001, when the Center
for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics was created. The Department of Computational Biology was
founded three years later. The department’s
faculty is interdisciplinary in nature and draws from numerous disciplines,
including the biomedical, biological, computational, mathematical, physical,
and engineering sciences. Members of the
department use computational and theoretical approaches based on quantitative
and physical sciences to advance scientific knowledge on biological systems. Faculty members’ research interests include
computer-aided drug discovery, T-cell polarization, and protein-protein
interaction.
Miscellaneous
The
Simulation and