Lab News
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...
Maizie is invited to give a technical talk at ATTIS 2022~
Apr. 18, 2022—Maizie is invited to give a talk on April 22 at the 6th Annual Translational and Transformative Informatics Symposium (ATTIS), which is sponsored by UAB Informatics Institute and the Center for Clinical and Translational Science. https://www.uab.edu/medicine/informatics/news-events/attis-2022
Our paper is accepted by The Journal of Neuroscience!
Feb. 16, 2022—Our paper “Strong gamma frequency oscillations in the adolescent prefrontal cortex”, has just been accepted to The Journal of Neuroscience.
Maizie is invited to present a research seminar at Bioengineering of the University of Toledo ~
Jan. 25, 2022—Maizie has been invited to present a research seminar on Friday, April 01, 2022, at Bioengineering of the University of Toledo.
Our Research Topic in Frontiers in Genetics is accepted!
Jan. 20, 2022—Our Research Topic “Predicting High-Risk Individuals for Common Diseases Using Multi-Omics and Epidemiological Data – Volume II” in Frontier in Genetics is accepted! We welcome investigators to contribute Original Research as well as Review articles of high quality on both data analytics and computational methods to identify novel biological, epidemiological and/or composite risk factors. ...
Yuanqi and Yichen (Henry)’ paper is accepted by the journal Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience!
Jan. 18, 2022—Congrats to Yuanqi and Henry! Their paper, “Neural mechanisms of working memory accuracy revealed by recurrent neural networks”, has just been approved for production and accepted for publication in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience.
Congratulations to Yunfei (Oliver) for receiving the student travel award from IEEE BIBM~
Dec. 15, 2021—Congratulations to Yunfei (Oliver) for receiving the student travel award from IEEE BIBM!