Lab News
We received funding support from Complete Genomics for stLFR research!
Dec. 16, 2022—Our lab has received $120k+ from Complete Genomics Inc, a leader in human genome sequencing. The project aims to improve computational tools for assembly and genome-wide variant detection using a most recent DNA sequencing technology, called single-tube long fragment read (stLFR) sequencing. Vanderbilt engineering professor receives over $2 million in funding for genome sequencing research...
Congratulations to Can for receiving the 2022-2023 Graduate School Travel Grant~
Dec. 12, 2022—Congratulations to Can for receiving the 2022-2023 Graduate School Travel Grant~ She just presented her work “Haplotype-phasing of long-read HiFi data to enhance structural variant detection through a Skip-Gram model” at Las Vegas for IEEE BIBM.
Maizie is invited to speak at the 2nd Annual Spatial Biology Congress~
Dec. 12, 2022—Maizie is invited to speak at the 2nd Annual Spatial Biology Congress on 8th-9th June 2023 in Boston, USA.
Yunfei and Yichen pass their CS PhD prelim exams~
Nov. 16, 2022—Yunfei and Yichen pass their CS Ph.D. prelim exams~
Maizie is invited to give a DS talk at TSU ~
Nov. 14, 2022—Maizie has been invited to give a data science talk titled “Big genomic data: algorithm design and applications” on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, at the Department of Computer Science of Tennessee State University.
Yunfei (Oliver) and Chao’s review paper is accepted by the book series Methods in Molecular Biology!
Nov. 9, 2022—Congrats to Yunfei (Oliver) and Chao (From Prof. Zhang’s lab)! Their paper, “Haplotyping-Assisted Diploid Assembly and Variant Detection with Linked Reads.” has just been published by the book series Methods in Molecular Biology. Thanks to Dr. Brock Peters from Complete Genomics Inc for revising and editing this paper.
Congratulations to Henry for being nominated for Google PhD Fellowship by Vandy internal selection~
Oct. 6, 2022—Congratulations to Yichen (Henry)! His Google PhD Fellowship application titled Neural mechanisms of cognitive plasticity revealed with deep learning methods has been chosen and nominated for one of four limited submissions by the internal selection. Good luck!
Maizie is confirmed and approved to be an Affiliate Scientist by WaNPRC~
Oct. 3, 2022—Maizie has been confirmed and approved to be an Affiliate Scientist by the Neuroscience Unit of Washington National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC). We are excited to participate in a collaborative project there!
Our R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) proposal was funded by NIH NIGMS!
Sep. 20, 2022—Our R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) proposal was funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences! The grant will support our work on algorithm design for structural variant detection through different high-throughput sequencing data. We are so excited! Vanderbilt engineering professor receives over $2 million in funding for genome sequencing research
Maizie is invited to give a CS colloquium talk at FSU ~
Aug. 28, 2022—Maizie has been invited to give a colloquium talk titled “Methods for characterizing structural variants with high-throughput sequencing data” on Friday, November 18, 2022, at the Department of Computer Science of Florida State University.
Our special issue in the journal Life is open for submission!
Aug. 16, 2022—Our special issue “Recent Advances in Computational Genomics” in the journal Life is now open for submission. We invite researchers to contribute original research on methods in computational genomics, especially for long-read and single-cell sequencing. The topics include but are not limited to, multiomics integration, genomic risk factor identification, genome assembly, genomic variant detection, gene...
Yunfei (Oliver) and Sanidhya’s paper is accepted by the journal Methods!
Aug. 8, 2022—Congrats to Yunfei (Oliver) and Sanidhya! Their paper, “Automated filtering of genome-wide large deletions through an ensemble deep learning framework.” has just been accepted by the journal Methods.
Maizie’s invited article on News & Views for Nature Computational Science is accepted!
May. 23, 2022—Maizie’s invited article “Graphing cell relations in spatial transcriptomics” on News & Views for Nature Computational Science has just been accepted for publication.
Our IEEE BIBM 2022 workshop proposal is accepted~
May. 20, 2022—Maizie Zhou, Eric Lu Zhang (HKBU), Ryan Matthew Layer (CU Boulder), Zechen Chong (UAB), and Xian Fan Mallory (FSU) will organize IEEE BIBM 2022 workshop on Computational methods to characterize genomic variants using high-throughput sequencing data. Dec 6-9, 2022, Las Vegas, NV, USA Our workshop link: https://combioconference.github.io/bibm2022-workshop/
Parth Datar successfully defends his CS Master’s thesis in April 22~
May. 4, 2022—Parth is in the combined Bachelor’s/Master’s program in computer science. He just completes both degrees in three years, which is a remarkable achievement! Parth’s Master’s thesis focused on methods inspired by Natural Language Processing algorithms for the detection of structural variants with long-read genomic data. He will join Qualcomm in San Diego in June 2022...