Libbrecht lab

Lab graduation dinner for Abe -- good luck, Abe!

Lab social!

🧬 Excited to share our paper "Robust chromatin state annotation," now in Genome Research, @mforoozz, @marjanfarahbod, @maxlibbrecht. Paper: bit.ly/scgrp Blog Post: bit.ly/scmbp Follow this thread for details. (1/6)👇

Libbrecht lab at Canadian Epigenetics Meeting 2023

New preprint: "Integrative chromatin state annotation of 234 human ENCODE4 cell types using Segway reveals disease drivers" @marjanfarahbod @mforoozz @HDaneshpajouh @bonscotthoughts @JMichaelCherry1 @maxlibbrecht biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

It's official, I've been granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor! A huge thank you to my students, colleagues, mentors and collaborators.

New preprint: "Robust chromatin state annotation", @mforoozz @marjanfarahbod @maxlibbrecht biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New paper in @OUPBioinfo: "Integrative chromatin domain annotation through graph embedding of Hi-C data", Neda Shokraneh, Mariam Arab, @maxlibbrecht.

Presenting on "Accurate and interpretable prediction of drug resistance in M. tuberculosis using deep learning" at the Mathematics and Statistics of Genomic Epidemiology workshop. Thanks to the organizers for the opportunity to present. @BIRS_Math birs.ca/events/2022/5-…

Review on "Obtaining genetics insights from deep learning via explainable artificial intelligence" out now in @NatureRevGenet! Thanks to co-authors @NovakovskyG, Nick Dexter, @WyWyWa, @sara_mostafavi nature.com/articles/s4157…

New paper in @NatureComms: "Learning representations of chromatin contacts using a RNN identifies genomic drivers of conformation", @kevthesouza, Alexandra Maslova, @ediem_aljibury, Matthias Merkenschlager, Vijay K. Bhargava, @maxlibbrecht. doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

New paper in @OUPBioinfo: "Continuous chromatin state feature annotation of the human epigenome", Habib Daneshpajouh, Bowen Chen, Neda Shokraneh, Shohre Masoumi, Kay C Wiese, @maxlibbrecht. doi.org/10.1093/bioinf…

Congratulations to Dr. Alice Yue for successfully defending her PhD thesis, "Computational methods for cytometry"!

Lab picnic!

Congratulations to Dr. Faezeh Bayat for successfully defending her PhD thesis, "Variance-stabilized signals for biological data"!

#IEEE_TMI paper DEEMD: Drug Efficacy Estimation against #SARSCoV2 based on cell Morphology with Deep Multiple Instance Learning PDF 📰 i.sfu.ca/yFsJPL Code 💽 i.sfu.ca/DReJKS #MedicalImageAnalysis #DeepLearning #COVID19 @SFU_CompSci @NabiRobert @LabLibbrecht

Maxwell Libbrecht has joined our Editorial Board, and will be handling papers in our Genomics section! You can find out more about Max's research here: plos.io/3LLuoJb

Long-overdue lab research summary page! sites.google.com/view/libbrecht…

Lab social! (Sept 16 2021)

I'm honored to have been selected for the Michael Smith Scholar award -- thank you, @msfhr! msfhr.org/1/news_article…