Oct 2025: New lab member! Harun Mustafa joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow, joining us from his previous postdoc at ETH Zürich.
Sept 2025: Lab member Peter Ge leads
a major new paper in Science Translational Medicine debunking recent claims of a microbiome in cancer.
Sept 2025: New lab member! Nikola Zadorozhny joins the Salzberg and Pertea labs as a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science.
Aug 26 2025:
Kuan-Hao Chao successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis!
Apr 2025: Postdoctoral fellow Ilia Minkin publishes a new analysis of splice site conservation across 470 mammals, in the journal
Nucleic Acids Research.
Jan 2025: Kuan-Hao Chao and 3 other lab members publish LiftOn, a new genome annotation system, in the journal
Genome Research.
Nov 2024: Hayden (Hyun Joo) Ji publishes a paper describing 100s of novel human exons found in upstream ORFs, in the journal
PLoS Computational Biology.
Sept 2024: Kuan-Hao Chao publishes a paper on Splam, a new, highly accurate splice site prediction program, in the journal
Genome Biology.
June 2024: New lab member! David Bass joins the lab as a Ph.D. candidate in Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology (CMDB).
February 2024: Congratulations! to former postdoc
Martin Steinegger, who was announced as the 2024 winner of the Overton Prize from ISCB.
October 7 2023: In
"Major data analysis errors invalidate cancer microbiome findings", published in
mBio, we describe how a major cancer microbiome study was fatally flawed.
October 4 2023: Our
Nature paper on
"The status of the human gene catalog", provides a broad look at how complete and accurate today's human annotation is.
August 7 2023: Markus Sommer successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis!
August 1 2023: Ales Varabyou successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis! Ales was jointly advised by Mihaela Pertea and Steven Salzberg.
July 2023: A new paper in
Nature Computational Science, led by
Ales Varabyou, describes
ORFanage, a system that finds protein-coding regions in RNA-seq assemblies, guided by annotation.
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