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Three PhD students graduate

Congratulations to Marco Garcia Noceda, Yawei Qin, and Zhenchen Hong! In the last few months, all three successfully completed their defenses and received their PhDs from UCR's Department of Physics and Astronomy. This closes a chapter for us, as Marco, Yawei, and Zhenchen (together with Yunxiao Li, who graduated last fall) were the first graduate students to join the lab.

All three are taking their talents to industry. Marco is joining Adaptive Biotechnologies, Yawei is joining CGG SA, and Zhenchen will be working with Ernst and Young. Thank you all again for your great work in the lab.

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Congratulations Dr. Yunxiao Li

Congratulations to Yunxiao Li on a successful PhD defense! During his time in the lab, Yunxiao has developed a number of computational methods to study patterns of evolution in complex populations. Yunxiao is bringing his skills to industry, where he will join a biotech startup focused on protein engineering.

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Moving the lab to CSB at Pitt

After a few wonderful years in the Physics department at UCR, the lab is moving to join the Department of Computational and Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Thank you to all of our colleagues and friends at UCR for a great experience in Riverside.

At Pitt, we're looking forward to deepening our work in evolution and immunology, and working together with groups such as the Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine and the Center for Systems Immunology.

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Edwin Rodriguez Horta joins the lab

We're excited to have Edwin Roriguez Horta join the lab this spring as a postdoc! Edwin completed his PhD in Physics under the supervision of Alejandro Lage and Roberto Mulet Genicio at the University of Havana, as well as Martin Weigt at Sorbonne Université.

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Kai Shimagaki joins the lab

This fall we're excited to welcome Kai Shimagaki to the lab as a postdoc! Kai recently completed his PhD in Computer Science with Martin Weigt at Sorbonne Université in Paris, France, together with a graduate degree in Computational Physics from the University of Tokyo with Synge Todo.

NIH R35 MIRA and collaborative R01

This summer we've been fortunate to receive two major grants to support our research.

First, we received a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) from the NIH. This grant will support the development of new methods to infer selection from temporal genetic data. We're excited to begin work on this project. An advertisement for a new postdoc position supported by this grant will be posted soon!

Second, we are excited to work on a collaborative project led by Dr. Rebecca Lynch at George Washington University to define the fitness cost of HIV-1 resistance to broadly neutralizing antibodies, supported by an R01 from the NIAID! Other team members include Dr. Will Fischer from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Dr. Florian Klein from the University of Cologne.