2023
Aug
Erin builds this website...
Former REU student Luíz Mata Lopez joins the CS undergrad program at UMD. We are happy to have you back at UMD, Luíz!
Jul
Erin presents on quartets (species tree estimation with TREE-QMC + relationship to tumor phylogenetics) at the Computational Genomics Summer Institute (CGSI) at UCLA as well as the "Methodological Innovation, Machine Learning and Big Data" session at GRC Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics
Honors student John Bridgers awarded the Dr. John D. Gannon Scholarship; congrats John!
Jun
Three papers accepted to WABI 2023; congrats to the students who led this work: Junyan Dai, Yunheng Han, Tobias Rubel, and Jamshed Kahn (Patro Lab), as well as Rob Patro and Laxman Dhulipala!
Mar
Erin presents research on quartets as part of the Spring School on Algorithmic Cancer Biology (SSACB) at the U.S. National Cancer Institute
2022
Dec
Michael Suehle graduates from UMD CS BS program with honors; congrats Michael!
Sep
Erin presents on estimating evolutionary histories from low-homoplasy markers (like some retrotransposons) at the PANGAIA 2nd Annual Workshop on Computational Pangenomics (co-held with WABI 2022)
Jun
Erin presents on admixture graph estimation (with OrientAGraph) as part of the "Towards the Network of Life" symposium at Evolution