Salzberg Lab

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Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2015 by salzberg1.

Lab news

May 2019: New lab members! Christopher Pockrandt, Ph.D., joins as a postdoc and Markus Sommer joins as a Ph.D. student.
May 2019: We discovered 3437 bogus proteins in 2250 contaminated microbial genomes, described in our new Genome Research paper. Supplemental files are on our ftp site, here.
April 2019: The first draft of the redwood genome is released. The giant genome (26.5 Gb) of this giant tree was sequenced and assembled by the Salzberg and Timp labs at Hopkins, in collaboration with David Neale at UC Davis and the Save the Redwoods League.
November 2018: Ph.D. student Rachel Sherman is 1st author on a new study in Nature Genetics describing the African pan-genome.
November 2018: The CHESS human gene catalog is published in Genome Biology, in a paper led by Ela Pertea and Steven Salzberg.
July 2018: Ela Pertea is awarded a 3-year, $993,000 NSF grant to support her work on transcriptome assembly from RNA-seq data.
July 6,2018: Steven Salzberg gave the opening keynote talk for ISMB 2018 in Chicago.
May 2018: Aleksey Zimin is awarded a 3-year, $500,000 USDA grant to support his work on genome assembly.
Apr 2018: Steven Salzberg elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Founded in 1780, the Academy honors exceptional scholars, leaders, artists, and innovators and engages them in sharing knowledge and addressing challenges facing the world.
Feb 2018: Former student Cole Trapnell (now an Asst. Prof at U. Washington) wins this year’s Overton Prize from ISCB.
Feb 7, 2018: Our work on the redwood genome is featured on the front page of the Washington Post.
Dec 2017: See Steven Salzberg’s talk on genome assembly at the Oxford Nanopore Community Meeting in NYC.
31 Oct 2017: “Small group scoops international effort to sequence huge wheat genome.” This is us: read the story in Nature.
Oct 2017. Re-released the Kraken! (v1.0 that is.) See ccb.jhu.edu/software/kraken for details.
Sept 2017. Two new Ph.D. students join the lab, Alaina Shumate in the BME program, and Ales Varabyou in the CS program.
May 2017. Steven Salzberg publishes a paper refuting a recent claim that horizontal gene transfer is a widespread phenomenon in animal species.

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Welch Medical Library 107
1900 E. Monument St.
Baltimore, MD 21205

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