2024
May
Work led by PhD student MG Hirsch (with Chi-Ping Day and Teresa Przytycka) on modeling single-cell gene expression adaptation in tumor subclones is out on bioRxiv; congrats MG!
Jan
Luíz Mata Lopez serves on President Biden's Advisory Commission on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Hispanics Meeting; congrats Luíz!
Erin presents at Workshop on Phylogenomics in Cesky Krumlov; check out our coalescent lab; many thanks to the organizers for the invitation!
2023
Nov
Erin presents at the University of Florida Genetics Symposium; many thanks to the organizers for the invitation!
Aug
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; many thanks to organizers for invitation!
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; many thanks to organizers for the invitation!
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); many thanks to orgnizers for invitation!
Jun
Erin presents on admixture graph estimation (with OrientAGraph) as part of the "Towards the Network of Life" symposium at Evolution