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Takis becomes a panel member for an NIH study section

Takis was nominated to become a standing member of the Biomedical Informatics, Library and Data Sciences Review Committee, an NIH study section that reviews grants for the National Library of Medicine (NLM).  His tenure in this study section begins in July 2021.

The Benos Lab presents at the NeurIPS 2020 Workshop on Causal Discovery

Congratulations to Ashlynn for her wonderful presentations (both oral and poster presentation) during the NeurIPS 2020 Workshop on Causal Discovery and Causality-Inspired Machine Learning.  The title of the presentation, one of the four papers selected for this workshop, was “Improving Constraint-Based Causal Discovery from Moralized Graphs“.

Congratulations to Tyler for his Scientific Reports publication

Congratulations to Tyler for the acceptance of his paper “Human ex vivo lung perfusion: A novel model to study human lung diseases” in Scientific Reports.  The paper investigates the gene expression changes caused by ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) to the lungs of normal and disease subjects. The diseases investigated include…

Congratulations to Ashlynn, Vineet and Daniel for the NeurIPS workshop publication

Congratulations to Ashlynn, Vineet and Daniel for the acceptance of their paper “Improving Constraint-Based Causal Discovery from Moralized Graphs” to the NeurIPS 2020 workshop on Causality.  The paper describes two new methods to improve the execution time of constraint-based causal discovery methods if the search starts…

Congratulations to Giorgio for his Frontiers publication

Congratulations to Giorgio  Bertolazzi, a former visitor to our group, for the acceptance of his paper by the Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology.  This paper is a collaboration Claudia Coronnello, a BenosLab alumna and Giorgio’s advisor. It is  entitled “miR-1207-5p can contribute to dysregulation of inflammatory response in…

Congratulations to Haopu for his Thorax paper

Congratulations to Haopu Yang, a Tsinghua scholar from our group, for the acceptance of a paper he co-authored by the journal Thorax.  This paper, which is a collaboration with George Kitsios, MD, investigates the microbiome content differences in 62 IPF, 15 connective tissue-associated ILD, 20 cystic fibrosis, 20 COPD patients and…

Congratulations to Haiyi for his IEEE BIBE 2020 paper acceptance

Congratulations to Haiyi for the acceptance of his paper “Interpretable Factors in scRNA-seq Data with Disentangled Generative Models” to the 20th IEEE BIBE*  2020 conference.  The paper describes a new method, Factor Variational Inference (FactorVI), which learns independent data generative factors of single cell RNA-seq data…

Our lab moved to its new location (Murdoch building)

Our lab moved to the new modern Murdoch building.  This move, which  affects all “dry labs” in the department, was initially planned for March, but it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  We are very excited with the move to the new building, which is brighter…