CU Connections, Sept. 24, 2020 issue

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $5 million in funding for six new research projects in computational biology, $1,049,639 of which goes to Chris Miller, associate professor in CU Denver’s Department of Integrative Biology, and his collaborators—Farnoush Banaei-Kashani from CU Denver, Kelly Wrighton from CSU, and Chris Henry from DOE.

Miller’s project, titled Finding the Missing Pieces: Filling Gaps that Impede the Translation of Omics Data into Models, seeks to develop novel computational biology approaches and software to better understand microbial genomes relevant to the environment. According to Miller, there are parallels to studying the human microbiome in many challenges we see today—climate change, bioenergy-relevant systems, and more.

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