Bioinformatics Student Wins Best Poster Award

Bioinformatics doctoral student Shiyuyun"Gena" Tang won Best Poster Award at the 2014 ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics, held September 20-23, 2014 in Newport Beach, CA. This conference is hosted by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Biomedical Informatics (SIGBio). Gena's poster was entitled,"Identification of Protein Coding Regions in RNA Transcripts." Gena came to Georgia Tech in 2010 to pursue her PhD in Bioinformatics and has been working in Dr. Mark Borodovsky's research group since that time.