Jan 2023: A new paper in
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, led by
Kuan-Hao Chao (a joint member of the Salzberg and Pertea labs), describes the first gap-free assembly of a Han Chinese human. See the paper
here.
Dec 2022: A new paper in
eLife, led by
Markus Sommer, shows how protein structure can yield remarkable insights into gene function. See the paper
here.
Aug 2022: New lab members! Hayden Ji and Celine Hoh join the lab as Ph.D. candidates in Computer Science.
March 31, 2022: A team of over 100 scientists, including lab member Alaina Shumate, publishes the first-ever truly complete human genome in the journal
Science. See the paper
here, and see a perspective about the work
here.
March 18, 2022: Alaina Shumate successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis!
Dec 2021: Our paper on a high-quality genome of a Puerto Rican individual, with authors from both the Salzberg and Pertea labs, appears in
the journal Genetics.
Aug 2021: New lab members!
Kuan-Hao Chao joins both our lab and Ela Pertea's lab as a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science.
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 defends her Ph.D. thesis.
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.
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