Congratulations to our group member, Haiyi Mao, for the acceptance and presentation of a first author paper at the NeurIPS 2024 international conference. His paper is entitled “Learning Identifiable Factorized Causal Representations of Cellular Responses”, a study he started during his internship with Genentech. In this study, Haiyi developed…
Congratulations to Minxue for defending his PhD thesis, entitled “Computational Methods for Studying Gene Regulation with Applications to Aging and Chronic Lung Diseases”. Minxue joined our group in January 2019 and during the COVID pandemic he maintained his productivity. He has published a total of 9 peer-reviewed journal and conference…
Congratulations to our group member, Robert Gregg, for the acceptance of his first author paper in PLoS Medicine. His paper is entitled “Identification of Factors Directly Linked to Incident Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Causal Graph Modeling Study”. In this study, Robert identified clinical and imaging factors that are directly…
Congratulations to our group member, Tyler Lovelace, for the acceptance of his first author paper in eClinicalMedicine. His paper is entitled “Development and validation of a mortality risk prediction model for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a cross-sectional study using probabilistic graphical modelling”. For the first time, we were able to identify and compare the…
Congratulations to our group member, Khaled Sayed (now at the University of New Haven), for the acceptance of his first author paper in Hepatology Communications. This paper is entitled “A plasma peptidomic signature reveals extracellular matrix remodeling and predicts prognosis in alcohol-related hepatitis” and presents the analysis results of degradome profiles in patients with different…
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.
