Classes taught:

  • ECS 124A: Theory and Applications of Bioinformatics
  • ECS 188A: Ethics in the Age of Technology
  • ECS 289K: Computational Methods in Systems and Synthetic Biology
  • ECS 289I: Topics in Machine learning and Networks

Educational activities


Related stories to our research and other activities:

  • UC Davis Blog, "Students take part in Synthetic Biology Competition", November 2010. (link)
  • IEEE Spectrum, "The Rise and Fall of the Quants", August 2009. (link)
  • Princeton Press, "Thinking ahead: Bacteria anticipate coming changes in their environment", June 2008. (link)
  • ScienceNow Daily News, "Pavlov's Bacteria?", May 2008. (link)
  • Nature News, "Bacteria 'can learn'", May 2008. (link)
  • To Bhma, "Bacteria and the weather forecast", in Greek, May 2008. (link)
Tagkopoulos Lab
Department of
Computer Science &
UC Davis Genome Center
University of California, Davis

Computer Science
Office: 3063 Kemper Hall
Tel: (530) 752-4821
Fax: (530) 752-4767
iliast at ucdavis.edu

Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility
Office: 5313 GBSF
Tel: (530) 752-2721
Davis, CA 95616

News


NSF support: Our virtual ecology simulator is scheduled to run on the Blue Waters supercomputer in 2012.
Best paper award in Teragrid 2011: Our paper "A scalable multiscale framework for parallel simulation and visualization of microbial evolution" got two best paper awards in TG'11
Future of Science: Participated in the "Future of Science workshop, organized by the Institute for the Future for the Moore Foundation. For a beatiful roadmap depiction click here!
NSF Support: "A model-based system for the automated design of synthetic genetic circuits by mathematical optimization"
A multi-scale synthetic ecology simulator: The "Evolution in Variable Environments" (EVE) v2.1 simulator is now available!
IGEM awards: we got a gold medal and the best foundational advance award!
May 2012: The synthetic biology team was featured in the main UCD page. Here is the article