NEWS

2025

• [June 2] Talk at NIBMG: Hamim delivered a talk on 'Computational analysis of single-cell and spatial omics datasets for elucidating cancer heterogeneity' at NIBMG Kalyani. 

• [June 1] bioRxiv alert!: The preprint of Krushna's work in collaboration with Prof. Sai Pydi's lab at IIT Kanpur on a Temporal Single-Cell Multi-Omics Atlas of Murine Pancreatic Islet Remodeling During Hyperglycaemia Progression is out now on bioRxiv. This paper had also contributions from Ajita, Shruti and Ayush.

• [April 29] Publication alert!: Krushna's collaborative work in a study from Prof. Shamik Sen's lab at IIT Bombay got published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). 

• [April 24-29] RECOMB 2025: Members of CoSmic lab visited RECOMB 2025 and presented their works. Ajita, Krushna, Priya, and Hamim presented posters on Spatial domain detection benchmarking, multiHIVE, PHALCON, and Renoir respectively. Hamim delivered a talk on Narein's work intratumor heterogeneity through the lens of gene regulatory networks at RECOMB-CCB. Hamim also chaired a session on Spatial Transcriptomics at RECOMB 2025. 

• [April 7] bioRxiv alert!: The preprint of Narein's work on understanding intratumor heterogeneity through the lens of gene regulatory networks is out now on bioRxiv.

• [Mar 18] Paper accepted in RECOMB-CCB: Narein's work on understanding intratumor heterogeneity through the lens of gene regulatory networks got accepted in RECOMB-CCB 2025 for oral presentation.  

• [Feb 22] RECOMB Posters Accepted: Multiple works from CoSmic lab got accepted at RECOMB 2025 for poster presentation. Congratulations to Ajita, Krushna, Priya and Narein!

• [Jan 29] bioRxiv alert!: The preprint of Anirudh and Krushna's work, multiHIVE is out now on bioRxiv. Link to the tool: multiHIVE_github.

2024

• [Dec 27] bioRxiv alert!: The preprint of Priya's work, PHALCON is out now on bioRxiv. Link to the tool: PHALCON_github.

• [Dec 13] Invited Talk at IIT Bombay: Hamim delivered a talk on 'Computational analysis of single-cell and spatial omics datasets for elucidating cancer heterogeneity' at the workshop on "Quantitative Biology of Collective Cellular Behavior" at IIT Bombay.

• [Dec 8] Invited Talk at Pan IIT Meeting: Hamim delivered a talk on the "Computational analysis of single-cell and spatial omics datasets for elucidating cancer heterogeneity" at this year's Pan IIT Meeting at IIT Kanpur.

• [Sep 20] Invited Talk at ICGA Annual Meeting: Hamim delivered a talk on 'PHALCON: Scalable variant calling from single-cell panel sequencing dataset from cancer patients' at ICGA Annual Meeting.

• [July 24] Seminar at MD Anderson Cancer Center: Hamim delivered a BCB Guest Seminar on 'Single cell data integration: within and across modalities' at MD Anderson Cancer Center .

• [July 16] Talk at ISMB: Priya presented a talk on her work, PHALCON at ISMB 2024 conference held in Montreal, Canada.

• [July 16] Poster at ISMB: Krushna presented a poster on multi-HIVE at ISMB 2024 conference held in Montreal, Canada.

• [June 1] ISMB travel fellowship: Priya was accepted as one of the ISMB 2024 Travel Fellowship recipients ($1,000.00 USD).

2023

• 🎉 [Nov 27] Publication alert!: Ajita and Krushna's work, scDREAMER got published in Nature Communications! See this blog to learn more about scDREAMER. Here is the github repo if you are interested in using scDREAMER. 

• [Nov 6] Student Lightning talk: Ajita presented her work at the Mehta Family Center for Engineering & Medicine research symposium.

• [Oct 26] Bidding adieu to one of our lab members: Anirudh defended his M.Tech thesis and graduated from the lab. 

• [Oct 4] Bidding adieu to one of our lab members: Narein graduated from the lab and joined as a Ph.D. student at Rice University. He will be co-advised by Hamim during his PhD.

• [Oct 26] PMRF fellowship: Priya got selected for the PMRF (Prime Minister's Research Fellows) fellowship (cycle 11). Congratulations, Priya!! 

• [July 23] Poster at ISMB: Ajita presented a poster on scDREAMER-Sup at the ISMB/ECCB 2023 conference in Lyon, France.

• [June 23] Invited talk at ACM India summer school, IIT Hyderabad: Hamim delivered a lecture on the computational analysis of single-cell data at the ACM India summer school at IIT Hyderabad.

• [June 2] Invited talk at BDBio, IISc Bengaluru: Hamim presented an invited talk on single-cell data integration at the Symposium on Big Data Algorithms for Biology, at IISc Bengaluru.

• [June 2] Poster presentation at BDBio, IISc Bengaluru: Ajita and Krushna presented their paper at the Symposium on Big Data Algorithms for Biology, at IISc Bengaluru.

• [April 17] bioRxiv alert!: Narein's paper on Renoir, a spatial cell-cell communication method is out now in bioRxiv.  Here is the github repo if you are interested in using Renoir. 

• [March 26] Invited talk at ATMB, IIIT Delhi: Hamim delivered a talk on trajectory inference in the lecture series on algorithms that transformed molecular biology (ATMB 2023) at IIIT Delhi. 

• Visvesvaraya Scholarship: Debkanta received the Visvesvaraya PhD Scholarship. Congratulations, Debkanta!! 

2022

• 🎉 [August 26] Publication alert!: Kushagra's work, MARGARET got published in Nucleic Acids Research. 

• [Aug 1] PMRF fellowship: Krushna received the prestigious PMRF (Prime Minister's Research Fellows) fellowship. Congratulations, Krushna!! 

• [July] Bidding adieu to one of our lab members: Vihari defended his M.Tech thesis and graduated from the lab.