Congratulations to Michael for winning the first place among graduate student presentations in College of Public Health and Health Professions (PHHP) Days at UF. He presented his work on AI methods for identifying antimicrobial resistant bacteria. Congratulations Michael! URL: https://phhp.ufl.edu/2024/04/18/celebrating-innovation-phhp-days-2024/…
Congratulations to our group member, Khaled Sayed (now at the University of New Haven), for the acceptance of his second author paper that was conditionally accepted in Nature Communications. This paper is entitled “Prognostic Insights from Longitudinal Multicompartment Study of Host-Microbiota Interactions in Critically Ill Patients” and is led by our long-time collaborator, Dr. Georgios…
Congratulations to Wenjie for defending her PhD thesis, entitled “Integrative analysis of clinical and single-cell transcriptomic data for the precision diagnosis and intervention of Sjögren‘s disease”. Wenjie joined our groupwhen i moved to Florida, less than 2 years ago. S…
Congratulations to Wenjie Zeng for the acceptance of her first co-author Lancet Rheumatology paper, which is entitled “The novel Florida Scoring System for stratifying children suspected of Sjögren’s disease: findings from the first data-driven cross-sectional study applied to a rare pediatric cohort“. In this paper, Wenjie developed a new classification system for childhood…
Congratulations to Khaled Sayed for the acceptance of his AJRCMB paper (“Red journal”), which is entitled “Lung epithelium releases growth differentiation factor 15 in response to pathogen-mediated injury”. This paper examines role of GDF15 during pathogen injury, especially in lung epithelium. An interesting conclusion for this study is a potential blood-lung communication pathway.
Congratulations to Robert Greg for the acceptance of his Applications Note paper in Bioinformatics. The paper is entitled “CellularPotts.jl: Simulating Multiscale Cellular Models in Julia” and it describes a Julia package that Robert developed to allow users to simulate multi scale cellular models. Congratulations Robert! Paper availability:…
Right before Thanksgiving, Daniel defended his PhD thesis, entitled “Causal graph methods for heterogeneous data and application to MUC1 cancer vaccine response”. Daniel joined our group 5 years ago and has worked on causal modeling algorithms both from the computational and the application standpoint. He will soon move to Maryland…
Takis received today the William Bushnell Presidential Chair from Dean Beth Virnig. Takis was among 24 distinguished colleagues across colleges that received endowed chairs. This is a great honor! …
Congratulations to Tyler Lovelace for the acceptance of his first co-author Placenta paper, which is entitled “Defining trophoblast injury patterns in the transcriptomes of dysfunctional placentas“. In this paper, Tyler analyzed comics data to identify potential molecular mechanisms through which trophoblast injury can cause placenta dysfunction. This is a collaborative short communications paper,…
Congratulations to Minxue Jia, Khaled Sayed, and Maria Kapetanaki for the acceptance of their joint first author Aging Cell paper, which is entitled “LEF1 isoforms regulate cellular senescence and aging“. In this paper, our group analyzed scRNA-seq data from immune cells from human and mouse lungs (young and aged) and bulk RNA-seq data from human…
