News
- 2013.01.09
- Paper published in Nucleic Acids Research: "Rbm20 regulates titin alternative splicing as a splicing repressor"
- 2012.10.01
- Paper published in Genetics: "Genomic variation in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster"
- 2012.09.17
- Grant awarded by NIH: "Statistical methods for annotating repetitive genomic regions through ENCODE-derived data." (Co-PI w/ S. Keles (PI) and E. Bresnick)
- 2012.09.10
- Grant awarded by NIH: "The genetics and evolution of extreme body size in mice from Gough Island." (Co-investigator w/ B. Payseur (PI) and K. Broman)
- 2012.07.01
- Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!
- 2012.03.12
- Book chapter published in Evolutionary Genomics : "Whole-Genome Alignment"
- 2011.11.23
- Paper published in IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics : "Sequence Surveyor: leveraging overview for scalable genomic alignment visualization"
- 2011.09.23
- RSEM paper acquires designation of "Highly accessed"
- 2011.08.04
- Paper published in BMC Bioinformatics: "RSEM: accurate transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data with or without a reference genome"
- 2011.07.14
- Paper published in PLoS Computational Biology: "Discovering transcription factor binding sites in highly repetitive regions of genomes with multi-read analysis of ChIP-seq data"
- 2011.06.24
- Paper published in Briefings in Bioinformatics: "Positional orthology: putting genomic evolutionary relationships into context".
- 2010.09.21
- Paper published in Bioinformatics: "BUCKy: Gene Tree / Species Tree Reconciliation with Bayesian Concordance Analysis".
- 2010.06.30
- Grant awarded by NIH: "Computational methods for the analysis of RNA-Seq data."
- 2010.04.27
- Grant awarded by WisCID: "Small RNAs of the human intestinal microbiome." (Co-PI w/ H. Goodrich-Blair, N. Safdar, and J. Sonnenburg)
- 2009.12.18
- Paper published in Bioinformatics: "RNA-Seq gene expression estimation with read mapping uncertainty".
- 2009.12.15
- Paper accepted in Bioinformatics: "RNA-Seq gene expression estimation with read mapping uncertainty".
- 2009.11.20
- Paper published in PLoS Genetics: "Fine scale phylogenetic discordance across the house mouse genome".
- 2009.05.29
- Paper published in PLoS Computational Biology: "Fast Statistical Alignment".
- 2009.03.28
- Paper accepted in PLoS Computational Biology: "Fast Statistical Alignment".
- 2008.12.03
- Teaching Science Masters Institute course on "Genetics, Natural Selection & Evolution" July 13-16, 2009.
- 2008.05.13
- Teaching BMI/CS 576 "Advanced Bioinformatics" during the Fall 2008 semester.
- 2008.05.13
- Teaching Science Masters Institute course on "Genetics, Natural Selection & Evolution" June 23-26, 2008.
- 2008.01.22
- Teaching BMI/CS 776 "Advanced Bioinformatics" during the Spring 2008 semester.
- 2007.11.12
- Teaching Science Masters Institute course on "Natural Selection & Evolution" Nov 12, 17, 26, & Dec 1
- 2007.11.08
- Paper published in Nature: "Discovery of functional elements in 12 Drosophila genomes using evolutionary signatures"
- 2007.11.06
- Paper published in PLoS Biology: "Population genomics: whole-genome analysis of polymorphism and divergence in Drosophila simulans"
- 2007.06.14
- ENCODE pilot project results in the media: BBC, Boston Globe, Washington Post
- 2007.06.14
- Paper published in Genome Research: "Analyses of deep mammalian sequence alignments and constraint predictions for 1% of the human genome"
- 2007.06.14
- Paper published in Nature: "Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project"
- 2007.06.07
- Joined UW Comprehensive Cancer Center as member.
- 2007.01.23
- Teaching BMI/CS 776 "Advanced Bioinformatics" during the Spring 2007 semester.
- 2006.12.08
- Paper published in BMC Genomics: "Compensatory relationships between splice sites and exonic splicing signals depending on the length of vertebrate introns"
- 2006.11.22
- Joined the Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine program as faculty trainer.
- 2006.09.22
- Joined the Genomic Sciences Training Program as faculty trainer.
- 2006.08.09
- Joined the Computer Sciences Department as affiliate faculty member.
- 2006.08.01
- Joined the Genome Center of Wisconsin as member.
- 2006.08.01
- Joined the Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Department as assistant professor.
