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2024
MARCH
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Our work was selected as a featured cover paper by Cancer Research
JANUARY
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Our work on obese cancer analysis is online in Cancer Research
2023
SEPTEMBER
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In collaboration with Dr. Rocque from the Department of Neurosurgery, we received an R21 award.
JULY
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So thrilled to join the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC) as an Associate Member!
JUNE
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Fengyuan successfully defended her dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Huang!
JANUARY
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DeBreak is online in Nature Communications!
2022
OCTOBER
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Our work on gene fusion detection with long-read transcriptome data is accepted by Cancer Research.
AUGUST
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PloS Genetics paper is online
Collaborating with Dr. John Parant’s group, our paper is accepted in PloS Genetics
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Nature Communications paper is online
Collaborating with Lewis Shi’s group, our paper is accepted in Nature Communications
MAY
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BMC Genomics paper is online
Our work on bacteria genome long-/hybrid- read de novo assembly is accepted
2021
NOVEMBER
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Genome Biology paper is online
Our work, “Accurate long-read de novo assembly evaluation with Inspector”, is online today in Genome Biology.
OCTOBER
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Welcome Guy
Welcome GBS/GGB theme student Guy Twa to rotate in the lab.
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Welcome Oliver
Welcome master student Oliver Tan from the Computer Science department to join the lab.
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Nature Cancer paper is online
Collaborating with Eddy Yang’s group, a paper is accepted in Nature Cancer, “RNF2 ablation reprograms the tumor-immune microenvironment and stimulates durable NK and CD4+ T-cell-dependent antitumor immunity”.
AUGUST
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Fengyuan presented at ICIBM 21
Fengyuan’s presented her work “B-assembler: A Circular Bacterial Genome Assembler”. Well done!
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Maggi’s abstract was accepted for a platform (oral) presentation at ASHG 2021
Maggi’s abstract “Genome-wide association of structural variations with lipid metabolism traits in TOPMed GOLDN study” has been ACCEPTED for a platform (oral) presentation at the ASHG 2021 Virtual Meeting. There are only 198 abstracts out of over 2000 selected as oral presentations. Good job, Maggi!
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Maggi has been selected as a Predoctoral Semifinalist for the 2021 Charles J. Epstein Trainee Awards for Excellence in Human Genetics Research
Quote from ASHG 2021:” The competition was intense this year, with over 500 applicants for only 60 semifinalist and 18 finalist selections. While your abstract did not reach the finalist stage, selection to the semifinalist stage is a significant honor and reflects the quality and significance of your work.” Awesome, Maggi!
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Fengyuan received ICIBM 2021 Best Paper Award Runner Up Certificate
Good job, Fengyuan! Congratulations!
FEBRUARY
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ClipSV paper is online!
ClipSV paper is online!
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Welcome Shaurita
Welcome GBS/GGB theme student Shaurita Hutchins to rotate in the lab.
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HGSVC paper is online in Science
Our HGSVC collaborative paper is online in Science.
JANUARY
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Welcome Santhosh
Welcome GBS/Cancer biology theme student Santhosh Kumar Karthikeyan to rotate in the lab.
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Welcome Meghan
Welcome undergraduate student Meghan to join the lab.
2020
DECEMBER
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Welcome Stephanie
Welcome undergraduate student Stephanie to join the lab.
SEPTEMBER
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Welcome Katrina and Ethan
Welcome undergraduate students Katrina and Ethan to join the lab.
AUGUST
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Welcome Weisheng
Welcome GBS/Cancer biology theme student Weisheng Chen to rotate in the lab.
JUNE
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MIRA Award!
Great news! We received a total of $1.8 million five-year MIRA award from NIH/NIGMS. More bioinformatics geeks are needed!!!
MARCH
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Zechen appointed in CCTS
Zechen was appointed as Associate Scientist of the Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS).
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BDCatalyst Award!
Awesome news! We received a fellowship from the NHLBI BioData Catalyst Fellowship Program.
2019
OCTOBER
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Welcome Yiqing
Welcome Yiqing from Computer Science department to join the group as a research assistant.
AUGUST
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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.
JULY
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Zechen appointed in MHRC
Zechen was appointed as Associate Scientist of the UAB Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center (MHRC).
JUNE
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MRLR accepted in Bioinformatics!
Our paper, “MRLR: unraveling high-resolution meiotic recombination by linked reads”, is accepted in Bioinformatics.
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AHA Research Leaders Academy
Zechen was invited to attend (American Heart Association) AHA Research Leaders Academy.
MAY
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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”.
2018
OCTOBER
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Welcome Yuwei
Welcome GBS/GGB theme student Yuwei Song to rotate in the lab.
SEPTEMBER
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Supplementary Award!
In collaboration with Dr. Greg Cooper at HudsonAlpha, we are awarded a CSER supplementary funding.
AUGUST
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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.
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Pilot award!
We have received a pilot research award from UAB Obesity Health Disparities Research Center (OHDRC).
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Poster award!
Peng’s poster won 2nd place in the ATTIS 18 Poster Competition. Congratulations!
JULY
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MRLR preprint
The first preprint manuscript of the lab is available at bioRxiv. Fingers crossed!
MARCH
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Welcome Maggi
Ms. Yu Chen (Maggi) joins the lab as a GGB theme graduate student. Welcome Maggi.
2017
NOVEMBER
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Welcome Ming
Prof. Ming Ye joins the lab as a Visiting Scholar. Welcome Dr. Ye.
SEPTEMBER
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Welcome Peng
Dr. Peng Xu joins the lab as a Postdoc Fellow. Welcome Dr. Xu!
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Zechen to organize PowerTalk
Zechen starts to organize UAB Bioinformatics PowerTalk seminar series.
AUGUST
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Data Fellowship award!
We are funded for the Institutional Data Fellowship by the Institute for Precision Cardiovascular Medicine of American Heart Association.
JUNE
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novoBreak released on CGC
With the help of the Bioinformatics team from Seven Bridges, we optimized and released novoBreak as a public workflow on their Cancer Genomics Cloud (CGC). The story was posted on the Seven Bridges blog as well.
APRIL
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Paper published in Science Advances
Collaborating with Dr. Gordon Mills’ lab at MD Anderson, a paper published in Science Advances, “A murine preclinical syngeneic transplantation model for breast cancer precision medicine”.
MARCH
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Chong lab officially launched!
Zechen Chong lab is officially launched in Informatics Institute at School of Medicine of UAB.