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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.

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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/

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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...

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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

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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.

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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.  

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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.  ...

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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.

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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!

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Maizie is invited to present a virtual research seminar at U. Arkansas BME~

Dec. 13, 2021—Maizie has been invited to present a virtual research seminar on Friday, March 18, 2022 at the University of Arkansas BME.

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Our paper for single-cell RNA sequencing is accepted by the journal Cell Reports Methods!

Nov. 24, 2021—Congrats to Zihang! His first first-author paper, “A Bayesian factorization method to recover single-cell RNA sequencing data”, has just been accepted to the journal Cell Reports Methods.

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Yunfei (Oliver) and Sanidhya’s paper is accepted by the conference IEEE BIBM!

Oct. 24, 2021—Congrats to Yunfei (Oliver) and Sanidhya! Their paper, “An ensemble deep learning framework to refine large deletions in linked-reads.” has just been accepted to the conference The IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM). 

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Our paper is accepted by the journal Cancers!

Oct. 18, 2021—Our paper “The epithelial and stromal immune microenvironment in gastric cancer: a comprehensive analysis reveals prognostic factors with digital cytometry”, has just been accepted to the journal Cancers.

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Maizie is invited to give a talk at VUIIS~

Oct. 3, 2021—Maizie has been invited to give a talk on Friday, October 22, 2021 at “Frontiers of Biomedical Imaging Science” that is being organized at VUIIS. These lectures are planned to be held over Zoom, as the audience will consist of researchers across imaging fields at a variety of institutions.

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Our paper for computational neuroscience is accepted by the journal iScience!

Sep. 22, 2021—Our paper “Emergence of prefrontal neuron maturation properties by training recurrent neural networks in cognitive tasks”, has just been accepted to the journal iScience.

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