2025
July
Presenting on contrained dynamic programming (CDP) methods for cell lineage tree reconstruction at UCLA's Computational Genomics Summer Institute (CGSI)
June
Presenting on species tree estimation with Weighted TREE-QMC at Evolution 2025, including software demo at the Phylogenomics Software Symposium
Awarded NSF CAREER to develop the statistical theory and computational methods needed to reconstruct species evolution through the lens of mobile genetic elements (specifically retrotransposons)
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! [Cell Press Preview]
2024
Dec
MG Hirsch passes the 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 with Fritz Lab on detecting evolution of transgenic crop resistance in wild insect populations from copy number variants funded by the USDA Biotechnology Risk Assessment Grants (BRAG) Program [UMD Press]
July
T2T genomes released for 6 apes! (Thanks to Erik Garrison and Peter Sudmant for getting us involved)
June
Seed project with Nguyen Lab on spatial sequencing pre- and post- malignant oral funded by the NCI-UMD Partnership for Integrative Cancer Research
Luíz Mata Lopez is visiting Ellinor lab (Broad) for summer; have fun Luíz!
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
Presenting on species tree estimation with TREE-QMC in the "Methodological Innovation, Machine Learning and Big Data" session at GRC Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics
Presenting 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