Welcome Yiqing from Computer Science department to join the group as a research assistant.
Two abstracted were selected at ASHG19
One abstract in our lab was selected as a platform talk at ASHG19. One abstract was selected as Reviewers’ Choice Abstracts at ASHG 19.
Zechen appointed in MHRC
Zechen was appointed as Associate Scientist of the UAB Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center (MHRC).
AHA Research Leaders Academy
Zechen was invited to attend (American Heart Association) AHA Research Leaders Academy.
MRLR accepted in Bioinformatics!
Our paper, “MRLR: unraveling high-resolution meiotic recombination by linked reads”, is accepted in Bioinformatics.
PPA-assembler accepted!
Collaborating with Dr. Da Yan’s group, a paper is accepted in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, “Scalable De Novo Genome Assembly Using a Pregel-Like Graph-Parallel System”.
Supplementary Award!
In collaboration with Dr. Greg Cooper at HudsonAlpha, we are awarded a CSER supplementary funding.
Poster award!
Peng’s poster won 2nd place in the ATTIS 18 Poster Competition. Congratulations!
Pilot award!
We have received a pilot research award from UAB Obesity Health Disparities Research Center (OHDRC).
Platform talk at ASHG!
Our abstract has been accepted for a PLATFORM (oral) presentation at the 2018 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting in San Diego.
