MeiLu joins the lab as a PhD student following her rotation with us. She will investigate dynamic cell fate processes through the development of new methods and models for single-cell data.
This week Megan received an honorable mention for her application to the NSF GRFP award program; a great accomplishment. Her research project proposes new models that can explain cell fate decisions through single-cell communication. Congratulations, Megan!
Adam visited the Huck Institute at Penn State this week to give a talk at the Genomics Lecture Series. He spoke about methods to infer transcriptional networks and stem cell dynamics from single-cell genomics.
Gina Yang has won an undergraduate research fellowship to support her honors thesis work in our lab. She is studying cell-cell communication networks in colorectal cancer. Congratulations, Gina!
Adam visited City of Hope today to give a talk on “Inferring the dynamics of hematopoiesis from single-cell data.” City of Hope is a not-for-profit research center and hospital that hosts a large research hub with labs working on many basic and translational challenges in cancer biology.
Adam visited the Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Grove (home to 2000 doctors and >100 research labs) to give a talk on “Modeling cell state transitions with single-cell transcriptomics.”
Adam spoke at the Society of Mathematical Biology annual meeting, at the Université de Montréal. He presented a talk in the developmental biology mini-symposium on ”Single-cell approaches to unravel the developmental trajectories of cells.”
Congratulations to Xiaojun for receiving a prestigious Viterbi fellowship for the second consecutive year! This award from the department will help to support his PhD studies in computational biology.
Thank you to everybody who contributed to the conference that was held June 6-7 at UC Irvine and made it such a success. Organized by Adam and Luca Pinello, we welcomed 160 people through the doors, heard 19 talks and presented >50 posters over two days. In all, we learnt a lot about mathematical and computational methods for single-cell biology!
Congratulations to students Megan and Xiaojun who both passed their screening exams this week! They now will join the lab to pursue PhDs. Megan is working on multiscale models of cell-cell communication; Xiaojun is developing methods to dissect transition dynamics from single-cell data.