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May 3, 2023
Jian Hu received the Kaushal Interdiciplinary Science award from Penn Genetics
Jian’s SpaGCN paper received the inaugural Kaushal Interdisciplinary Science Award from Penn Genetics.
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September 25, 2022
David Zhang received the best poster presentation award from the 2nd Penn Big Data Conference
David’s research on super-resolution gene expression prediction from spatial transcriptomics data received the best poster presentation award from the 2nd Penn Big Data Conference.
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August 31, 2020
Jian Hu received Reviewers' Choice abstract award from the American Society of Human Genetics
Jian Hu’s ASHG abstract was selected as a Reviewers’ Choice abstract. Only abstracts that were scored by reviewers in the top 10% of all poster abstracts received this award. Jian will present his work on spatial transcriptomics at the ASHG […]
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August 12, 2020
Yuanchao Zhang was selected to give a platform talk at the American Society of Human Genetics 2020 Annual Meeting
Yuanchao will present his work on “A Multi-Step Deep Learning Framework for Integrative Analysis of Single-Cell RNA-Seq and CITE-Seq Data” at the American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting in October.
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May 22, 2020
Ben Auerbach won a Merit Award from the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms
Ben will present his work on circadian phase inference in single cells at the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms meeting in June.
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November 28, 2019
Our R01 grant on "Computational and functional strategies to decipher lncRNAs in human atherosclerosis" will be funded
In this joint project with Dr. Muredach Reilly, we propose innovative integration of large-scale bulk RNA-seq coupled to single-cell RNA-seq profiling of human atherosclerotic plaques and novel deconvolution algorithms to identify lncRNAs, and their host cell subpopulations, for atherosclerosis. These […]
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November 28, 2019
Jian Hu won the GSK ABACUS student poster award
Jian Hu won the GSK Autumn Biostatistics Annual Conference US (ABACUS) student poster award. Jian presented his research on transfer learning for single-cell RNA-seq clustering analysis.
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July 24, 2019
Justin Lakkis was selected as a semifinalist for the 2019 Charles J. Epstein Trainee Awards for Excellence in Human Genetics Research
Justin will present his work on reconstructing pseudotemporal trajectories in single-cell RNA-seq data using neural networks at the American Society of Human Genetics 2019 Annual Meeting, which will be held in Houston, Texas.
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July 24, 2019
Jian Hu was selected as a semifinalist for the 2019 Charles J. Epstein Trainee Awards for Excellence in Human Genetics Research
Jian will present his work on transfer learning for single-cell RNA-seq clustering analysis at the American Society of Human Genetics 2019 Annual Meeting, which will be held in Houston, Texas.
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July 24, 2019
Jiaxin Fan was selected to give a talk at the Next Generation Genomics conference
Jiaxin will present her work on incorporating single-cell RNA-seq data to infer allele-specific expression at the Nature Conference on Next Generation Genomics, which will be held at New York University in August.