Salzberg Lab

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Lab news

July 2021: Ales Varabyou and Christopher Pockrandt publish a novel method to find recombination events in COVID-19 viruses in the journal Genetics.
June 2021: Alaina Shumate publishes Liftoff, a new genome annotation tool, in the journal Bioinformatics.
Feb 2021: Markus Sommer publishes Balrog, a new bacterial gene finding system, in PLoS Computational Biology.
Jan 2021: Rachel Sherman successfully completes her Ph.D. thesis defense.
Nov 2020: New lab members! Ilia Minkin, Ph.D. joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow, and Jennifer Lu successfully defends her Ph.D thesis and stays on as a postdoc.
Oct 2020: Genetics features our new wheat genome assembly on its cover. We discovered 5,799 new genes, in work led by Mike Alonge and Alaina Shumate.
Aug 2020: New lab members! Natalia Rincon, Beril Erdogdu, and Yuchen (Peter) Ge join the lab as new Ph.D. students.
Aug 2020: Genome Biology selects 3 papers from the lab for its list of the 20 most-accessed papers of their first 20 years. Lead authors were Ben Langmead, Aleksey Zimin, and Daeahwan Kim.
June 2020: Ph.D. student Alaina Shumate and Research Scientist Aleksey Zimin lead a new paper describing the first-ever human reference genome based on a single individual, published in Genome Biology.
Feb 2020: ISCB announces that Steven Salzberg will receive the Accomplishments by a Senior Scientist Award at the 2020 ISMB conference.
Feb 2020: Ph.D. student Rachel Sherman publishes a major review of pan-genomes in Nature Reviews Genetics.
Nov 2019: 3 lab alumni make 2019 list of world's most highly-cited researchers: Mike Schatz, Adam Phillippy, and Cole Trapnell. CCB colleague Ela Pertea also made the list, in a previous year.
Aug 2019: HISAT2 and HISAT-genotype are published in Nature Biotechnology, led by former lab member Daehwan Kim, now an Asst. Professor at UT Southwestern.
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 leads a 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 including lab members Ales Varabyou, Alaina Shumate, and Florian Breitwieser.

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