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Group news


Shuxiang, Daria, Yiru and Anna attended and presented at the ISMB meeting in Montreal in July 2024.

2024.07


Daria Ostroverkhova gave a short talk about her research on cancer drivers at the RECOMB Satellite Conference on Computational Cancer Biology, in Cambridge, USA.

2024.04


Check out a story about our lab in the Queen’s Gazette.

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2024.02


Congratulations to Yiru on her recent travel award to attend the ISMB conference in July 2024.

2024.02


Congratulations to Dasha on her recent paper "DNA polymerase ε and δ variants drive mutagenesis in polypurine tracts in human tumors" published in Cell Reports.

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2024.01


Anisur Rahman joined our group, welcome Anisur!

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2023.12


Yiru Sheng joined our group, welcome Yiru!

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2023.12


Yosef gave a talk "Identifying nucleosome positioning features based on deep residual networks" at the T-CAIREM AI in Medicine conference in October 12-13 in Toronto.

2023.10


Daria Ostroverkhova presented a talk about her project at the 2023 Gordon Research Seminar on Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics 2023. Also, she presented a poster at the Gordon Research Conference.

2023.06


Christos Kapetanios joined our group, welcome Christos!

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2023.05


Yosef, Dasha and Daniel presented posters at the RECOMB meeting in Istanbul in April 2023. Dasha was also selected to give a talk at the satellite meeting on Computational Cancer Biology.

2023.04


Yosef Masoudi-Sobhanzadeh was awarded a post-doctoral travel award from Queen’s University.

2023.04


Daria Ostroverkhova was awarded the Jeremy Nesheim Graduate Travel Award to attend the 27th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) conference.

2023.03


Our paper "Histone variant H2A.Z modulates nucleosome dynamics to promote DNA accessibility" is published in Nature Communications.

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2023.02


Shuxiang Li was selected as a Travel Award winner to 67th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting (BPS 2023) held in San Diego, USA.

2022.12


Daniel Espiritu presented a poster presentation at the 8th Canadian Conference on Epigenetics.

2022.10


Hannah Nespolo joined our group, welcome Hannah!

2022.09


Shuxiang Li presented a talk about his project at the 24th Annual Meeting for Health Sciences Research Trainees (Queen's University) .

2022.06


Daria Ostroverkhova presented two talks about her project at the 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Mutagenesis and 2022 Gordon Research Seminar on Mutagenesis.

2022.06


Austin Macklem joined our group, welcome Austin!

2022.06


Dr. Tiejun Wei joined our group, welcome Tiejun!

2022.05


Dr. Yosef Masoudi-Sobhanzadeh joined our group, welcome Yosef!

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2022.05


Daniel Espiritu presented a talk about his project at OICR Mondays sessions.

2022.04


Our research group is highlighted by Biophysical Society of Canada.

2022.03


Daniel Espiritu presented a talk about his project at 10th Informatics Retreat.

2022.03


Nadejda Boev's poster "Decoding the functional significance of cancer mutations on the linker Histone H1" got the top prize at annual 537 Poster Day.

2022.02


Our paper "DNA methylation cues in nucleosome geometry, stability and unwrapping" is published in Nucleic Acids Research.

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2022.02


Three undergraduate students Huiting Wei, Sichen Liu and Yanan Wang from School of Computing joined the group, welcome Huiting, Sichen and Yanan!

2021.12


Nadejda Boev presented a talk about her project at 2021 Asilomar Chromatin, Chromosomes, and Epigenetics Conference.

2021.12


Shuxiang presented a talk about his project on DNA methylation at the MGO webinar series.

2021.11


Anna was in the in media news of "Editor Spotlight: Meet the women behind leading molecular biology journals".

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2021.10


Yunhui presented two talks about his research at the MGO webinar series and NIH seminar series.

2021.9


Our paper "Binding of regulatory proteins to nucleosomes is modulated by dynamic histone tails" is published in Nature Communications.

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2021.9


Nadejda Boev joined the group, welcome Nadejda!

2021.9


Tiina Liinamaa joined the group as an administrative and research assistant, welcome Tiina!

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2021.7


Daria Ostroverkhova joined the group as a PhD student, welcome Daria!

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2021.4


Daniel Espiritu joined the group as a PhD student, welcome Daniel!

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2020.8