“If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together” #GHC19

Very pleased with the outcomes from the Baylor-NCBI hackathon for SVs. Thanks to Fritz Sedlazeck and Ben Busby! for putting together this amazing event- excited for the next one in April! Also shoutout to NVIDIA & DNAnexus, Inc.. #baylorsv #NCBICODEATHON BCM HGSC

Second place for Sirena Soriano at #MissionConnect Annual Meeting Podium presentation ٌ #Neurosurgery Houston Methodist MD ”Restoring the gut microbiota in #alzheimerdisease to reduce #neurodegeneration” Thanks for all your work! Qi (Maria) Wang Sirena Soriano Todd J Treangen Rice Computer Science

Extremely proud of my graduate student Dreycey Albin for successfully defending his SSPB Rice University master’s thesis today (3/27) on “A Novel Computational Platform for Sensitive, Accurate, and Efficient Screening of Nucleic Acids”. Congrats Dreycey Albin! SeqScreen: gitlab.com/treangenlab/se…

Only two days to go until the 1st COV-IRT #COVID19 virtual symposium! Taking place this Friday, April 17th. Event features 14 talks spanning multi-disciplinary COVID-19 perspectives. Register to attend for free at: covid.groups.io/g/symposium/wi…. Rice Computer Science Rice Engineering and Computing @RiceK2I

Excited to share -> "To Petabytes and beyond: recent advances in probabilistic and signal processing algorithms and their application to metagenomics". In collab with Anshumali Richard Baraniuk and led by Qi (Maria) Wang and Leo Elworth from my group: academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar… Nucleic Acids Res

also v happy to share another preprint from my group that describes a new tool for alignment-based characterization of synthetic plasmids, led by my student Qi (Maria) Wang w/ major contributions from my postdoc Ryan Anthony Leo Elworth & Rice Computer Science undergrad Erin Liu. gitlab.com/treangenlab/pl…

Latest preprint from my group now online: deep dive into SARS-CoV-2 intrahost variants to investigate "hidden" diversity, led by my PhD student Nicolae Sapoval & in close collaboration with Fritz Sedlazeck Chris Mason @dposada_ and many other COV-IRT members: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

*Final 24 hours*, few seats remain, don't miss out! Register now to hear Dr. Peter Hotez (Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon)) discuss "COVID-19 Vaccines for Global Health" and Dr. Fiona Brinkman (Fiona Brinkman) present the "Canadian COVID-19 Genomics Network" & many more talks! riceuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Happy to announce I've partnered with Great Basin Scientific (bit.ly/3b3LwJK) to design a novel SARS-CoV-2 test, led by lab members Nick Sapoval (Nicolae Sapoval) and Dr. Leo Elworth (Ryan Anthony Leo Elworth). Olivar software package available at gitlab.com/treangenlab/ol… Rice Computer Science

The Bioinformatics And Beyond Podcast has officially released! Check out our first batch of episodes featuring Dr. Luay Nakhleh, Adrianne Gladden-Young (she/her), Michael Joyner, and Rickey Carter. Click to listen now on Anchor (anchor.fm/bioinfopod) and Spotify (open.spotify.com/show/6p4QwMsT6…).

This week, listen to Todd J Treangen discuss analyzing SARS-CoV-2 diversity within one individual, COVID-19 diagnostics development, and the COV-IRT international research organization. Listen on Spotify, Pocket Casts, and other major platforms, or just click anchor.fm/bioinfopod/epi…

Power restored just in time to share our new paper now out in Genome Research titled "Hidden genomic diversity of SARS-CoV-2" led by my 2nd year Ph.D. student Nicolae Sapoval in close collab with Fritz Sedlazeck @MedhatHelmy7 Chris Mason @dposada_ & many others! genome.cshlp.org/content/early/…

Thrilled to share latest work from my group now out in Nature Communications titled: "PlasmidHawk improves lab of origin prediction of engineered plasmids using sequence alignment", led by PhD student Qi (Maria) Wang, along with Bryce Kille, Ryan Anthony Leo Elworth , & Rice Computer Science undergrad Erin Liu. 1/n

Python, Meet Synthetic Biology (The DNA + Computing Issue) | by Niko McCarty | Bioeconomy.XYZ | Mar, 2021 | Medium medium.com/bioeconomy-xyz…

Join us for our anniversary event, a free virtual symposium on March 31st featuring 16 talks on all aspects of #COVID research from COV-IRT scientists plus keynote talks from Dr. Sharon Peacock (COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium Cambridge University) & Dr. Duncan MacCannell (CDC Duncan MacCannell) 1/n

Last but not least, huge thanks to all the co-authors! Tor Savidge lab (Tor & Qinglong), Villapol lab (Sonia Villapol, Ph.D. 🔬🧠 & Sirena), Mendling lab (Werner, Partick, & Enid), Dilthey lab (Alexander Dilthey & Alona), & my group Rice Computer Science: Michael Nute, Qi (Maria) Wang, Libby, and Kristen Curry

Excited to share a synthetic biology episode this week! My guests Ilenne Del Valle and @MilleniemFulkon did a GREAT job explaining several core, introductory concepts in synbio like biosensors, circuit diagrams, and reporters. Find it now or just click bit.ly/synb1