Lab News
2023
December 4: Arun Durvasula and Sriram's paper hit the news internationally!
2020
March 1: Dr. Sankararaman, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the agency’s highest honor for faculty members at the start of their research and teaching careers.
February 1: Ruth Johnson, a CS Ph.D. student in our LAB was the keynote speaker during the opening ceremony of Exploretech.la. Making computer science and technology more accessible to local high school students!
January 01: Ruthie’s paper was accepted for a talk at RECOMB.
January 01: Dr. Sankararaman has been awarded a two-year fellowship from Microsoft Research.
2019
December 1: Alec and Chris passed their qualifying exams! They are now Qualified™.
October 1: Our lab meets at the American Society of Human Genetics in Houston, TX and we got some awards back home! View pictures.
August 1: Saurav Mathur and Tiffany Phan present their work from Bruins in Genomics 2019 under the mentorship of Rob Brown!
August 1: Chris was named a Human Genetics Scholar for 2019 by the American Society of Human Genetics!
August 1: Arun passed his qualifying exam! He is now Qualified™.
May 1: Ariel and Ali both gave talks at RECOMB in Washington DC!
May 1: Chris presented a poster and Ruthie gave a talk at Biology of Genomes!
2018
December 1: Two papers from our lab have been accepted for talks at RECOMB 2019. Congrats to Ariel, Ali, and our summer students, Mohammed and Anna!
November 1: Ruthie gives a talk "A scalable Bayesian model for estimating the genetic architecture of complex traits using summary statistics from GWAS" at the Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics 2018 conference at CSHL.
November 1: Ariel presents her poster on "Scalable estimation of heritability and genetic correlation for biobank-scale data" at ProbGen 2018.
October 1
- Rob presents his poster on "Enrichment of deleterious aviation on down-regulated haplotypes due to the regulation-dependent penetrance of coding variants" at ASHG 2018 in San Diego!
- Alec presents his poster on Binomial probabilistic component analysis for genotype data at ASHG 2018 in San Diego!
- Chris presents his work on the functional impact of human-specific sites in the Natural Selection and Human Phenotypes session at ASHG 2018!
July 1:
- Ruthie gives a talk on the UNITY framework at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology annual conference in Chicago!
- Ariel gives a talk: "A scalable estimator of SNP heritability for Biobank-scale data" at ISMB in Chicago!
July 1: Chris gives a talk on "Quantifying the impact of Neanderthal gene flow on human phenotypes at the Fitch symposium at SMBE in Yokohama Japan. He was also a finalist for the SMBE Fitch Prize!
July 1: Arun receives the NSF GRFP!
April 1: Ariel gives a talk: " A unifying framework for summary statistic imputation " at the Annual Research in Computational Molecular Biology Conference (RECOMB) in Paris!
2017
June 1: Chris gives talk at the American Society of Human Genetics meeting in Orlando!
June 1: Congratulations to Ruthie for winning the UCLA Dean’s Prize for Excellence at the undergraduate Research Poster Day 2017!
May 01, 2016: Quanta Magazine had a nice article on archaic introgression that covers some of our work.
2016
May 1: Quanta Magazine had a nice article on archaic introgression that covers some of our work.
March 1: Paper from our lab on "The Combined Landscape of Denisovan and Neanderthal Ancestry in Present-Day Humans" published in Current Biology.
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