June, 2023 - I will be organizing and attending an AALAC workshop for faculty at liberal arts colleges who work in computational biology.
July, 2023 - I will be attending and giving a talk at CGSI at UCLA.
July, 2023 - I will be attending the ISMB/ECCB meeting in Lyon, France where my student will be giving a talk about our accepted paper about method for computing weighted consensus trees.
March, 2023 - I gave an invited talk at St. Olaf College.
April, 2023 - I attended RECOMB-CCB and RECOMB (Istanbul, Turkey) where I presented my group's work on a weighted consensus method for tumor evolution trees.
May, 2022 - I visited the AIT-Budapest study abroad program in Budapest, Hungry.
June, 2022 - I hired one Carleton student and one recent graduate as research assistants for the summer.
January, 2022 - I co-organized a workshop on Emerging Topics in Tumor Evolution at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB).
June, 2022 - I hired 5 Carleton students as research assistants. Check out this video on what we were working on.
July, 2022 - I attended and gave a talk at CGSI at UCLA.
August, 2022 - I took my research group to visit the group of Mohammed El-Kebir at UIUC.
September, 2022 - I started a full year of sabbatical.
December, 2022 - I took 4 members of my research group to the IEEE BIBM meeting in Las Vegas, NV where they all presented posters.
February, 2021 - I received word that my tenure case was successful and that in September I'll be promoted to Associate Professor!
March, 2021 - I recieved a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study Algorithmic Approaches for Phylogenetic Analysis of Tumor Evoltuion.
May, 2021 - I organized a workshop at the Great Lakes Bioinformatics Meeting (GLBIO) for first time conference attendees.
June, 2021 - I co-organized a workhop on High-Performance Computing at ACM colleges as part of a funded FaCE grant.
July 12, 2021 - I gave an invited talk at the BiATA meeting (St. Petersburg, Russia).
August 27-28, 2021 - I was a co-program chair for the RECOMB-Seq meeting happening alongside the main RECOMB conference.
September 1, 2021 - I'm officially an Associate Professor of Computer Science! I'm also assuming the role of Associate Chair of the Computer Science Department.
September 14-18, 2021 - I attended the virtual Richard Tapia conference as well as coordinated registration and events for Carleton students attending the meeting.
September 27 - October 1, 2021 - I attended the virtual GHC conference as well as coordinated registration and events for Carleton students attending the meeting.
March 11-14, 2020 - I was supposed to attend and present a paper at SIGCSE (Portland, OR), which was cancelled due to COVID-19. Here is a link to the paper and my video presentation.
June 18-19, 2020 - I attended the RECOMB-CCB virtual meeting.
June 22-25, 2020 - I gave a highlights talk at the virtual RECOMB conference on our work on distance measures for tumor evolutionary histories. [paper link].
July 15-16, 2020 - I attended the HitSeq track of the virtual ISMB meeting where I got to introduce the keynote speaker Dr. Michael Schatz.
September 29 - October 2, 2020 - I attended the virtual GHC conference and coordinated registration and events for 15 Carleton students attending the conference.
February 27 - March 2, 2019 - I attended SIGCSE (Minneapolis, MN).
March 19, 2019 - Our paper describing distance measures for tumor evolution trees was accepted for an oral presentation at RECOMB-CCB. Congrats to Zach and Kiran!
April 1, 2019 - I gave an invited talk at Rhodes College (Memphis, TN).
May 3-8, 2019 - I attended RECOMB-CCB and RECOMB (Washington D.C.) where my students presented our work on distance measures for tumor evolution trees.
May 19-22, 2019 - I gave one talk in the special session on Bioinformatics Education and another in the special session on Precision Medicine at GLBIO (Madison, WI).
May 24, 2019 - I'm part of a team that received an ACM FaCE Award for our project titled Exploring Solutions for High-Performance Computing at ACM Institutions.
July 10 - 19, 2019 - I participated in the 2019 Computational Genomics Summer Institute at UCLA (Los Angeles, CA).
July 21-25, 2019 - I attended ISMB where I presented a poster on work on distance measures for tumor evolutionary trees (Basel, Switzerland).
September, 2019 - I returned to teaching after a year on sabbatical. It was a fun and productive year.
October 15, 2019 - Our paper describing the computational biology workshop I hosted last fall was accepted as a full paper at SIGCSE (Portland, OR).
October 25, 2019 - My CS362 (Computational Biology) class visited the University of Minnesota.
November 25, 2019 - Our paper describing distance measures for tumor evolution trees was accepted for publication in the journal Bioinformatics. Congrats to Zach and Kiran!
November 25, 2019 - A paper extending our previous work on the effects of noise and topology in tumor phylogeny inference was accepted for publication in the journal BMC Medical Genomics. Congrats to Kiran!
December 17, 2019 - Congrats to my student Rosa who was awarded an honorable mention in the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher competition!
April 21-24, 2018 - I attended RECOMB (Paris, France) where my student presented a poster.
June 11, 2018 - Our paper on inferring consensus tumor evolutionary histories was accepted to ACM-BCB! Congrats to Kiya and Camden for their work on this project!
July 6-10, 2018 - I attended ISMB (Chicago, IL) where I presented a poster on our work with inferring consensus trees.
July 18, 2018 - I'll gave a talk at the Carleton College Summer Computer Science Institute (Northfield, MN).
August 29 - September 1, 2018 - I gave a talk at ACM-BCB (Washington D.C.). Our paper recieved the SIGBio Best Paper Award! Congrats to Kiya and Camden!
September 2018 - I started my junior sabbatical! Looking forward to focusing in on research for the next year.
September 29-30, 2018 - I organized an undergraduate workshop on computational biology at Carleton College (Northfield, MN).
October 11, 2018 - Our paper on examining tumor phylogenies from noisy sequncing data was accepted to IEEE BIBM as a full paper! Congrats to Kiran for his work on this project!
November 9, 2018 - I gave an invited talk in the Biology Department at Reed College.
December 3-6, 2018 - I attended IEEE BIBM (Madrid, Spain) where my student Kiran gave a talk on our work on "Examining Tumor Phylogeny Inference in Noisy Sequencing Data".
December 20, 2018 - Cograts to my student Kiran who was awarded an honorable mention in the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher competition!
February 10-11, 2017 - I gave a talk at the AALAC Data Ethics Workshop at Pomona College (Claremont, CA).
February 22, 2017 - I recieved a grant from the National Science Foundation to study Computational Approaches for Inferring the Evolutionary Histories of Cancer Genomes.
July 21-25, 2017 - I attended and helped lead a BoF disucssion on Computational Biology Education (CoBE) at ISMB/ECCB, (Prague, Czech Republic).
July 28-29, 2017 - I presented some recent work on inferring simultaneous events in cancer at the RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Computational Cancer Biology (UCLA Campus, Los Angeles, CA). My students, Kiya Govek and Camden Sikes, also presented a poster at the conference.
October 30, 2017 - I gave a talk at the University of Minnesota, Computer Science and Engineering Colloquia, (Minneapolis, MN).
November 7, 2017 - I was awarded an Elledge and Eugster Fellowship and a Class of '49 Fellowship from Carleton College.
November 27, 2017 - Our paper "Identifying simultaneous rearrangements in cancer genomes" was published in Bioinformatics.
December 22, 2017 - Congrats to my student Kiya who was awarded an honorable mention in the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher competition!
January 18, 2016 - I gave a talk at the Carleton College Biology seminar series (Northfield, MN).
April 17-21, 2016 - Our paper "Multi-State Perfect Phylogeny Mixture Deconvolution and Applications to Cancer Sequencing" was presented at RECOMB (Santa Monica, CA).
July 20, 2016 - I gave a talk at the Carleton College Summer Computer Science Institute (Northfield, MN).
July 27, 2016 - Our paper "Inferring the Mutational History of a Tumor Using Multi-state Perfect Phylogeny Mixtures" was published in Cell Systems.
October 4, 2016 - I gave a talk at Macalester College (St. Paul, MN).
December 8-10, 2016 - I attended the Rocky Bioinformatics Conference (Snowmass, CO) where my student presented a poster.
March 14-18, 2015 - I presented work from my internship at MIT Lincoln Laboratories at the 2015 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (Salt Lake City, UT).
April 10-15, 2015 - I gave a talk at RECOMB-ccb and presented a poster at RECOMB (Warsaw, Poland).
April 27, 2015 - I successfully defended my PhD dissertation!
July 10-14, 2015 - I attend ISMB/ECCB (Dublin, Ireland). My co-author presented our paper on inferring clonal trees from multi-sample sequencing data.
September 2015 - I started a position as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carleton College (Northfield, MN).
October 9-11, 2015 - I was a module leader for the Bioinformatics and Genomics Workshop at Reed College (Portland, OR).
November 14, 2015 - I attended the face-to-face meeting for the ICGC PanCancer Evolution and Heterogeneity working group (Toronto, Canada).
November 20, 2015 - I gave a talk at the St. Olaf MSCS Research Seminar (Northfield, MN).
January 30, 2014 - Our review paper about identifying driver mutations was published in Genome Medicine.
March 20, 2014 - I was awarded the Google Anita Borg Scholarship. Check out the Brown CS Blog post.
May 13, 2014 - I gave a talk at the TCGA Third Annual Scientific Symposium (Bethesda, MD). You can watch the talk on YouTube.
May 28, 2014 - I successfully presented and passed my Thesis Proposal at Brown University (Providence, RI).
June 1, 2014 - My article on Brown CS pariticipation at Grace Hopper 2013 appears in the spring/summer edition of Conduit.
July 8, 2014 - Brown CS and CCMB to enjoy record participation at ISMB 2014. Brown CS Blog post.
July 11-15, 2014 - I presented a poster at ISMB and gave a talk at HitSeq (Boston, MA). My talk won the best presentation award!
June - August, 2014 - I completed a summer internship at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (Lexington, MA).
September 21-26, 2014 - I attended the 2nd Heidelberg Laureate Forum (Heidelberg, Germany).
September 30, 2014 - Our paper extending our previous work on intra-tumor heterogeneity was accepted to Bioinformatics.
October 8-10, 2014 - I attended Grace Hopper and coordinated the Brown University CS booth at the career fair (Phoenix, AZ).
October 19-22, 2014 - I attended RECOMB-CG (Cold Spring Harbor, NY) where our work on detecting simultaneously occurring events in cancer was accepted.
December 1, 2014 - I gave a guest lecture on genomic rearrangements in cancer at Amherst College (Amherst, MA).
Decemer 9, 2014 - I gave an inivited talk on my research at The College of New Jersey (Ewing, NJ).
January 3-7, 2013 - I attended PSB (Big Island, HI) and presented my work on intra-tumor heterogeneity.
April 7-12, 2013 - I gave a talk at RECOMB and presented a poster at RECOMB-seq (Beijing, China).
May 7-11, 2013 - I presented a poster at The Biology of Genomes (Cold Spring Harbor, NY).
June 12-14, 2013 - I gave an invited talk at the CANGS workshop (New Orleans, LA).
June 20, 2013 - I gave an invited lecture at the James Madison University Mathematics REU (Harrisonburg, VA).
July 29, 2013 - Our paper on intra-tumor heterogeneity was published in Genome Biology.
October 2-5, 2013 - I attended and helped to run the Brown CS booth at Grace Hopper (Minneapolis, MN).
October 30 - November 2, 2013 - I gave a talk about our work on chromothripsis at Genome Informatics (Cold Spring Harbor, NY).
December 16, 2013 - I presented a poster at CABI at Microsoft Research (Cambridge, MA).
May 2009 - My work on p-colorings of torus knots is published in the Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences.
March 26-31, 2011 - I gave a talk at RECOMB-CCB and presented a poster at RECOMB (Vancouver, Canada).
April 5, 2011 - I was awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
April 2011 - My work on a Cytoscape plugin for network analysis is published in Source Code for Biology and Medicine.
October 2011 - I attended several workshops on computations approaches in high-throughput genomics at IPAM (Los Angeles, CA).
April 19-24, 2012 - I gave a talk at RECOMB-seq and presented a poster at RECOMB (Barcelona, Spain). This work was published in BMC Bioinformatics.
December 3-7, 2012 - I gave a talk at the WiML workshop and attend the NIPS conference (Lake Tahoe, NV).