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Haopu publishes in JCI Insight

Congratulations to Haopu for the acceptance by JCI Insight of his sixth paper! The paper, “Plasma 1,3-beta-D-glucan levels predict adverse clinical outcomes in critical illness“, analyzed data from 453 mechanically-ventilated patients and found a new biomarker whose baseline levels are predictive of fewer ventilator-free days and worse 30-day survival. This is a collaboration…

Khaled publishes in Cell Reports

Congratulations to Khaled for the acceptance by Cell Reports of a paper he co-authored. The paper, “Compensatory hepatic adaptation accompanies permanent absence of intrahepatic biliary network due to YAP1 loss in liver progenitors“, investigates the gene networks that drive hepatic cell development.  This is a collaboration with the lab of Paul…

Congratulations to Robert for his T15 NIH fellowship

Robert Gregg, a postdoctoral fellow in our group, was awarded an NIH-NLM T15 Postdoctoral Scholarship from the Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.  This is a recognition of the high-quality work of Robert in the field of computational biology and machine…

Minxue publishes in Nature Communications

Congratulations to Minxue for the acceptance of the paper he co-authored to Nature Communications. The paper is entitled “Myofibroblast transcriptome indicates SFRP2+ fibroblast progenitors in systemic sclerosis skin” and presents the results of single cell RNA-seq analysis, which indicate key events that transform fibroblasts to myofibroblasts. Congratulations Minxue! Paper availability:…

Congratulations to Minxue for the successful defense of his thesis proposal

Minxue successfully defended his thesis proposal.  The title of his thesis is “Graphical methods for single sample network analysis with applications to aging and chronic lung diseases“.  His thesis committee consists of Jianhua Xing (chair), Carl Kingsford (CMU), Yu-Chih Chen.  Congratulations Minxue!  …

Vineet publishes a first author paper in Pediatric Crit Care Med

Congratulations to Vineet for the acceptance of his paper “Neurological Complications Acquired during Pediatric Critical Illness:  Exploratory ‘Mixed Graphical Modeling’ Analysis using Serum Biomarker Levels” in the Pediatric Crit Care Med.  This study investigates the factors affecting the development of neurological disorders in the ICU, using mixed graphical models. Congratulations…

Congratulations to Max Dudek for his NSF fellowship!

Max Dudek, an undergraduate student who did his capstone project with us this past year, was awarded an NSF Fellowship.  Max is now getting ready to attend graduate school and the fellowship will make this even easier.  We wish him the best in his new path. [UPDATE 31-Mar-2021]…

Tyler’s abstract is accepted on CSHL Conference in Systems Immunology

The abstract with the work in which Tyler is a leading co-author was accepted for oral presentation at the CSHL Virtual Conference on Systems Immunology.  The abstract, entitled “CausER―A general approach to uncover latent causal factors from multi-omic immunological datasets”, describes his recent efforts to develop a…

Congratulations to Tyler for the successful defense of his thesis proposal

Tyler successfully defended his thesis proposal today.  The title of his thesis is “Causal methods for the investigation of outcomes and progression in chronic disease“.  His thesis committee consisted of Jianhua Xing (chair), George Tseng, Larry Wasserman (CMU), Craig Hersh (Brigham Women’s Hospital/Harvard Univ).  Congratulations Tyler!  …