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(belated) April 2017: Jay Ghurye advances to candidacy
(belated) April 2018: Alexander Stoppel finishes semester long internship
(belated) April 2018: Nathan Olson successfully defends his thesis
(belated) August 2017: Brook Stacy joins the lab
(belated) August 2018: Dan Nasko and Seth Commichaux present at ISME17 in Leipzig, Germany
(belated) August 2018: Jackie Meisel attends FSCI2018
(belated) August 2018: Mihai Pop gives keynote talk on Use of Algorithms in Microbial Research
(belated) December 2018: Dan Nasko's paper is accepted in Frontiers in Microbiology
(belated) February 2017: Grad students Nidhi Shah and Jay Ghurye presented posters at the Broad Institute
(belated) February 2018: Mihai Pop is named Interim Director of UMIACS
(belated) January 2018: UMD hosts the third Mid-Atlantic Microbiome Meet-up Conference
(belated) July 2017: Jay Ghurye attends Computational Genomics workshop at UCLA
(belated) July 2018: Brian Brubach presents at the 29th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM)
(belated) July 2018: Dan Nasko is promoted to Research Scientist
(belated) July 2018: Jackie Meisel presents at Beneficial Microbes in Madison, WI
(belated) July 2018: Jay Ghurye presents at ISMB in Chicago
(belated) July 2018: Mihai Pop co-directs the 2018 STAMPS course
(belated) July 2018: Todd Treangen is now an Assistant Professor!
(belated) July 2019- Dylan Taylor starts graduate school at JHU
(belated) July 2019- Mihai Pop co-directs the 2019 STAMPS course
(belated) June 2017: Dan Nasko joins the lab as a post-doc
(belated) June 2017: The Pop lab goes to the BEST summer school
(belated) June 2019- Summer interns join the Pop Lab
(belated) June 2019- The Pop Lab goes to ASM Microbe in San Francisco
(belated) Lee Mendelowitz successfully defended his PhD
(belated) March 2018: Jackie Meisel and Dan Nasko attend MPower Day in Annapolis
(belated) March 2018: Oliver Schliebs finishes semseter long internship
(belated) May 2017: UMD hosts a joint CAMI-M3 workshop on metagenomic software validation
(belated) May 2018: Marcus Fedarko graduates from UMD
(belated) November 2016: UMD hosts the first Mid-Atlantic Microbiome Meet-up (M3) Conference and Workshop
(belated) November 2017: Jay Ghurye attends Nanopore Conference meeting in New York
(belated) November 2018: Brian Brubach advances to candidacy
(belated) November 2018: Mihai Pop and Jackie Meisel attend ABRCMS in Indianapolis, IN
(belated) November 2018: Mihai Pop is named Director of UMIACS
(belated) November 2018: The Mid-Atlantic Microbiome Meet-up (M3) Meeting Report is published in Microbiome
(belated) October 2017: Congrats to grad students Nidhi Shah and Victoria Cepeda Espinoza
(belated) October 2018: Brian Brubach gives invited tutorial talk at the 2018 International Workshop on String Algorithms in Bioinformatics
(belated) October 2018: Dan Nasko and Todd Treangen's manuscript accepted at Genome Biology with co-authors Adam Phillippy and Sergey Koren
(belated) October 2018: Jay Ghurye successfully defends his thesis
(belated) September 2017: Jacquelyn Meisel joins the lab as a post-doc
(belated) September 2018: Nidhi Shah's paper is published in Bioinformatics
(belated) September 2018: Pop Lab students attend the Workshop on the Future Algorithms in Biology at CMU
(belated) September 2018: The Pop Lab welcomes new undergraduate researchers
April 2019: Dan moves to San Diego
April 2019: Nidhi and Mihai attended a workshop at the Simons Foundation
April 2019: The Pop Lab goes "Into the Micro-verse" at Maryland Day
April 2019: The Pop lab moves!
April 2021: Mihai presents at Purdue University virtual conference
April 2021: Nidhi Shah successfully defends her thesis
August 2019: MetaCarvel manuscript is published in Genome Biology
August 2019: Nidhi Shah passes her qualifying exam
August 2019: Summer interns present their progress to CBCB
August 2020: Victoria Cepeda Espinoza successfully defends her thesis
Chris Hill successfully defends his PhD
December 2019: Brook and Victoria present their work at CBCB Seminar
December 2019: Mihai was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
February 2019: Dan visits Hebrew University to study AMPs
February 2019: Jackie attends MPOWER day in Annapolis
February 2021: Binnacle is published
January 2019: Harihara Subrahmaniam Muralidharan joins the lab
January 2019: The Pop Lab attends the 4th M3 Meeting and hosts a Taxonomic Identification Workshop
January 2020- Mihai receives NIH grant to develop tools for metagenomic analyses
January 2020: Nidhi Shah attended SSB 2020
January 2021: Kiran Javkar passes his qualifying exam
Jeremy Selengut is a Thompson Reuters highly cited researcher!
Joe Paulson successfully defends his PhD
July 2020: Jackie promoted to Assistant Research Scientist
July 2020: Pop lab presents at ISMB 2020!
June 2020: Brian Brubach successfully defends his thesis
Lab alumn Mike Schatz now a Bloomberg Professor at JHU
Lab gets a home page
March 2019: Dan's paper is published in mBio
March 2020: Brian accepts a faculty position
March 2021: Preprint on hydrogen sulfide production in the gut microbiome is posted
May 2019: Saul gives talk at CBCB Research in Progress Seminar
May 2019: Seth Commichaux passes his qualifying exam
May 2019: The Pop Lab goes to RECOMB at GWU
May 2020: Abstracts accepted at ISMB
Mihai promoted to Professor
November 2019: Mihai and Jackie attend ABRCMS in Anaheim, CA
November 2019: Pop lab members attend the second NCBI Virus Discovery Codeathon
November 2019: Seth presents his work at CBCB Seminar
October 2019: ATLAS is published in Frontiers in Genetics
October 2019: Jackie and Nidhi present their work at CBCB Seminar
October 2019: Kiran presents his work at CBCB Seminar
October 2020: Pop Lab presents at CSHL Microbiome Meeting
Postdoctoral position available
September 2019: Jackie attends NIST Workshop on Standards for Microbiome Measurements
Successful summer school with Tuebingen colleagues
The Pop lab goes international
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