Co-chairing the Evolutionary, Comparative, and Population Genomics Area, with Flora Jay, at ISMB/ECCB 2025
Work led by MG Hirsch (co-advised with Teresa Przytycka) on modeling single-cell gene expression adaptation in tumor subclones accepted to Cell Systems; congrats MG! [Read more]
2024
Dec
MG Hirsch passes her PhD dissertation proposal exam and advances to candidacy; congrats MG!
Nov
Co-organizing Challenges Developing Practical Tools for Phylogenetic Inference, with Elizabeth Allman, Barbara Holland, and Simone Linz, at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM); Rachel Parsons and Yunheng Han are presenting posters
Aug
Project on detecting resistance evolution from copy number variants with Fritz Lab funded by the USDA Biotechnology Risk Assessment Grants (BRAG) Program! [Read more]
July
T2T genomes released for 6 apes! (Thanks to Erik Garrison and Peter Sudmant for getting us involved)
June
Project on spatial sequencing pre- and post- malignant oral lesions with Nguyen Lab funded by the NIH/NCI-UMD Partnership for Integrative Cancer Research!
Luíz Mata Lopez is visiting Ellinor lab (Broad) for summer; have fun!
May
John Bridgers and Junyan Dai graduate from UMD CS BS program with honors; congrats John and Junyan!
Yunheng Han passes his PhD dissertation proposal exam and advances to candidacy; congrats Yunheng!
Jan
Presenting coalescent tutorials at the Workshop on Phylogenomics in Cesky Krumlov; check out our hands-on lab
2023
Nov
Presenting on admixture graph estimation with OrientAGraph at the University of Florida Genetics Symposium
Aug
Luíz Mata Lopez joins the CS undergrad program; welcome back to UMD, Luíz!
Jul
Presentating on species tree estimation with TREE-QMC in the "Methodological Innovation, Machine Learning and Big Data" session at GRC Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics
Presentating on quartets (species tree estimation with TREE-QMC + applications to tumor phylogenetics) at UCLA's Computational Genomics Summer Institute (CGSI)
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
Presenting recent results for quartet-based cell lineage tree reconstruction 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
Presenting on estimating evolutionary histories from low-homoplasy markers (e.g. retrotransposons) at the PANGAIA 2nd Annual Workshop on Computational Pangenomics (co-held with WABI 2022)
Jun
Presenting on admixture graph estimation with OrientAGraph as part of the "Towards the Network of Life" symposium at Evolution; Yunheng Han and Tobias Rubel are presenting posters