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Youjia Zhang awarded Schwartz Discover Grant

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Youjia Zhang has been awarded a $5,000 Schwartz Discover Grant to support her research on microglia confocal image processing.

Wilmot Cancer Institute earns NCI designation

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Of the estimated 1,500 cancer centers in the United States, the University of Rochester’s Wilmot Cancer Institute is now one of only 73 to have a special designation from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The NCI recognition places Wilmot in the top 4 percent of cancer centers nationwide.

Zachary Brehm has accepted a position at GSK

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Dr. Zachary Brehm has accepted a Principal Statistician position as GSK.

Yun Zhang has accepted a position at the National Library of Medicine (NLM)

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Dr. Yun (Renee) Zhang has accepted a Tenure-track Investigator position in the Division of Intramural Research (DIR) of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Welcome Ekram Hossain!

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Ekram Hossain joins the lab as a Research Data Engineer II, having recently completed his M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Rochester.

Microglia Imaging R01 funded

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Our NIH/NINDS R01 grant to develop statistical methods for confocal microscopy images of microglia has been funded.

Matt has been granted tenure

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Dr. Matthew N. McCall has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in the Department of Biostatistics & Computational Biology at the University of Rochester.

Ernesto receives Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship

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Dr. Ernesto Aparicio-Puerta has been awarded the prestigious Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Seong-Hwan Jun promoted to Assistant Professor

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Dr. Seong-Hwan Jun has been promoted to a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Biostatistics & Computational Biology at the University of Rochester.

Farewell Zachary Brehm!

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Dr. Zachary Brehm has accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Rochester Medicical Center.

Welcome Ernesto Aparicio-Puerta!

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Dr. Ernesto Aparicio-Puerta joins the lab having completed a PhD in Biomedicine at the University of Granada followed by a position as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Clinical Bioinformatics at Saarland University.

Zachary Brehm successfully defended his thesis

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Zachary Brehm is now Dr. Zachary Brehm after successfully defending his PhD thesis.

Isar Nassiri has been promoted

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Dr. Isar Nassiri Jun has been promoted to Senior Spatial Transcriptomics Computational Biologist at the University of Oxford.

Farewell Erik VonKaenel!

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Dr. Erik VonKaenel has accepted a position as a Data Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Labs.

Erik VonKaenel successfully defended his thesis

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Erik VonKaenel is now Dr. Erik VonKaenel after successfully defending his PhD thesis.

GIDS-REM Fellowship R25 funded

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Our NIH/NHGRI R25 grant to develop the Genomic Intensive Data Science Research, Education and Mentorship (GIDS-REM) program has been funded.

Welcome Seong-Hwan Jun!

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Dr. Seong-Hwan Jun joins the lab as a Research Assistant Professor, having completed his Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of British Columbia followed by postdoctoral research in the Computational Biology Program at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Hopngying returns to URMC as an Assistant Professor

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Dr. Hongying Sun has accepted an Assistant Professor position in the Supportive Care in Cancer Group within the Department of Surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

MicroRNA-seq R01 funded

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Our NIH/NIGMS R01 grant to develop statistical methods for microRNA-seq experiments has been funded.

Yun Zhang was promoted to an Assistant Professor at JCVI

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Dr. Yun (Renee) Zhang has been promoted to an Assistant Professor position at the J. Craig Venter Institute.

Valeriia Sherina promoted to Statistics Leader

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Dr. Valeriia Sherina has been promoted to Statistics Leader at GSK.

Farewell Hongying Sun!

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Dr. Hongying Sun has accepted an RNA Computational Scientist position at Takeda Pharmaceuticals.

Welcome Hongying Sun!

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Dr. Hongying Sun joins the lab having completed a PhD in Biology with focus on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Rochester followed by a position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biostatistics position at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Valeriia Sherina successfully defended her thesis

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Valeriia Sherina is now Dr. Valeriia Sherina after successfully defending her PhD thesis.

Matt has been promoted to Associate Professor

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Dr. Matthew N. McCall has been promoted to Associate Professor position in the Departments of Biostatistics & Computational Biology and Biomedical Genetics at the University of Rochester.

Farewell Valeriia Sherina!

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Dr. Valeriia Sherina has accepted a position as a Principal Statistician at GSK.

Farewell Yun Zhang!

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Dr. Yun (Renee) Zhang has accepted a position as a Staff Scientist at the J. Craig Venter Institute.

Yun Zhang successfully defended her thesis

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Yun Zhang is now Dr. Yun Zhang after successfully defending her PhD thesis.

Valeriia Sherina receives the Hall Fellowship

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Valeriia Sherina has been awarded the William Jackson Hall Graduate Student Fellowship Award.

Valeriia Sherina receives ENAR Student Paper Award

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Valeriia Sherina has been selected to receive one of the International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region’s (ENAR) Distinguished Student Paper Awards for the 2018 ENAR Spring Meeting in Atlanta, GA.

Farewell Isar Nassiri!

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Dr. Isar Nassiri has accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Oxford.

Welcome Isar Nassiri!

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Dr. Isar Nassiri joins the lab having completed a PhD in Bioinformatics at the University of Tehran followed by a Researcher position at The Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology.

Farewell Lilly Xie!

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Dr. Qingyan (Lilly) Xie has accepted a position as a Data Scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Matt receives GSS Advocacy Award

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Dr. Matthew N. McCall is this year’s recipient of the Graduate Student Society (GSS) Advocacy Award.

Welcome Qingyan (Lilly) Xie!

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Dr. Qingyan (Lilly) Xie joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Scholar, having completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Cincinati followed by a Lecturer postion at Rochester Institute of Technology.

The McCall Research Group has officially begun!

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Dr. Matthew N. McCall has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Biostatistics & Computational Biology at the University of Rochester.

K99/R00 grant funded

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My NIH/NHGRI K99/R00 grant to develop statistical methods for gene regulatory network estimation has been funded.