Heather received the iDiscover Predoctoral Fellowship
Heather received the iDiscover Predoctoral Fellowship (https://cvdatascience.dgsom.ucla.edu/pages/positions). Congratulations!
Yidan Sun graduated and will join UCSB
Yidan received her Ph.D. in March 2021. She will join the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability at UC Santa Barbara as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Spring 2021. Congratulations, Yidan!
Miles’ benchmark study of doublet-detection methods was published in Cell Systems
Miles conducted the first, systematic benchmark study of computational doublet-detection methods for single-cell RNA sequencing data. The study was published in Cell Systems. Congratulations!
Jessica was selected among the MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 China 2020
Jessica was honored to be selected as one of the MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 in the China region. For more information, please see https://www.innovatorsunder35.com/the-list/jingyi-jessica-li/.
Jessica on The Science Show with Robyn Williams
In the interview, Jessica described the AIDE method for discovering novel isoforms from short RNA-seq reads with confidence.
Jessica’s interview with Robyn Williams @ ABC The Science Show
Episode: Genomic processes described using biology and statistics
Jessica received the inaugural UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine W.M. Keck Foundation Junior Faculty Award
Jessica received this award to support her collaboration with Dr. Mark Biggin and Dr. Wendy Gilbert in advancing fundamental understanding of translational control. For information about this award, please check https://medschool.ucla.edu/research/w-m-keck-foundation-awards
Vivian’s AIDE method was published as a cover story in Genome Research
Vivian developed a statistical method AIDE, the first mRNA isoform discovery method that enables the control of false isoform discoveries from short RNA-seq reads. AIDE was published as the cover story of the December 2019 issue of Genome Research. Congratulations! Here is UCLA news.
Heather received the NSF NRT MENTOR Fellowship
Heather was selected to receive the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) “Modeling and Understanding Human Behavior: Harnessing Data from Genes to Social Networks” (MENTOR) Fellowship. Congratulations Heather!
Vivian’s scDesign method was published in Bioinformatics
Vivian developed a statistical simulator scDesign for assisting the design (platform, number of cells, total sequencing depth, number of batches, etc.) of scRNA-seq experiments based on users’ analysis needs. This work was accepted by ISMB/ECCB 2019 and published on Bioinformatics. Congratulations!