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Computational Biology sits at the intersection of two of the most rapidly advancing fields in modern science: Biology and Computer Science. CU Boulder's interdisciplinary faculty include world-class faculty both within and outside the Department of Computer Science. The department has particular strengths in:

• Animal behavior and collective computation
• Bees and fireflies
• Infectious disease dynamics and countermeasures
• Algorithms for large-scale genomics
• Mathematical modeling and statistical inference
• Networks and complex systems and ecological dynamics
• RNA biology and dynamics

Faculty Feature: Orit Peleg

Interdisciplinary Strengths

Computational Biology at CU Boulder is highly collaborative and interdisciplinary, with all of its faculty co-appointed in or affiliated with the BioFrontiers Institute, founded in 2011 by Nobel Laureate Tom Cech and HHMI Professor Leslie Leinwand and now led by HHMI Professor Roy Parker. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, postdocs, and faculty in any of CU Boulder's Computational Biology labs are multilingual, publishing across venues in computer science, biology, physics, complex networks, and public health. 

Undergraduate students can pursue a Minor in Computational Biology with courses taught by world-class faculty from departments across campus. Prospective graduate students may wish to consider the IQ Biology graduate certificate program, a funded collaboration of 9 CU Departments and the Computational Biosciences Program at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. 

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