Salzberg Lab

Computational biology and genomics @JHU

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Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2015 by salzberg1.

Lab news

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

410-614-6112

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