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Lab news

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. Former lab member 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: 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.

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Steven Salzberg's biosketch
Steven Salzberg's blog at Forbes
Center for Computational Biology
Directions to Hopkins

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3100 Wyman Park Drive
Wyman Park Building, Room S220
Baltimore, MD 21211
410-516-8246
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