News

Nov 6, 2024

Jenny presents our work on the application of structure-aware protein language models to phage-host interaction prediction at the Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society National Conference in Sydney.


Nov 4, 2024

Mark begins his short-term research engagement at A*STAR, Singapore, under the Singapore International Pre-Graduate Award.


Oct 26, 2024

Kyle and Anish’s work on psuedo DNA-protein alignment for rapid differential gene expression analysis, presented at GIW/ISCB-Asia 2022 is (finally!) published in BMC Bioinformatics.


Oct 1, 2024

Arya Kaul, Ph.D. candidate at Harvard Medical School, talks to the lab about his work on rapid detection of deletion-born fusion genes across all sequenced bacteria.


Oct 1, 2024

Jiaan presents our work on metagenomic profiling of hospital wastewater at the 24th Annual Symposium of the Philippine Network of Microbial Culture Collections.


Aug 26, 2024

Our new preprint on the application of structure-aware protein language models to phage-host interaction prediction has been posted on bioRxiv.


July 15, 2024

Anish speaks at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Philippine Academy of Microbiology.


July 10, 2024

Two interns from the Philippine Science High School System completed their internship at the lab.


June 4, 2024

Anish, Mark, and Phoebe’s work with IRRI, RDA South Korea, and IRD France on creating a dashboard for rice post-GWAS/QTL analysis is published in GigaScience.


May 10, 2024

Franz presents his work that benchmarks protein embeddings at the 24th Philippine Computing Science Congress.


May 8, 2024

Dr. Xueyi Dong of WEHI talks about benchmarking long-read RNA-seq data analysis tools.


April 6, 2024

Mark’s team Kuuhaku wins the intercollegiate programming contest Algolympics 2024, organized by the ACM – UP Diliman Student Chapter.


April 3, 2024

Jenny has been awarded the Faculty for the Future Fellowship program by the Schlumberger Foundation.


March 24, 2024

William Hutchison from Papenfuss Lab at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) talks about his research on prostate cancer to the group.


Feb 15, 2024

Kim has been chosen to receive the Engineering Research and Development (ERDT) Scholarship for her graduate studies.


Jan 27, 2024

Anish speaks at the Philippine Society for Microbiology Cluster 1 Symposium at Trinity University of Asia. Photos here.


Jan 26, 2024

The group meets for some pizza. Yum!


Dec 1, 2023

Mark bags the 2nd prize in the 2023 Magsaysay Future Engineers/Technologists Award given by the National Academy of Science and Technology. Presentation here.


July 24, 2023

Our work, led by Mark, on applying protein embeddings to phage-host interaction prediction is published in PLOS ONE.


July 12, 2023

Daphne, Mark, and Paul conduct a workshop on the basics of R, jointly organized with the Systems and Computational Biology Unit, DLSU.


June 19, 2023

4 students from the Philippine Science High School System join the lab for a 3-week immersion program.


Dec 13, 2022

Kyle presents his work on psuedo DNA-protein alignment at GIW/ISCB-Asia 2022 at Tainan, Taiwan.


Feb 4, 2022

Anish, Joyce, and Kyle’s work on assembly-free method for gene expression analysis in non-model organisms is published in BMC Genomics.