News
- 12/2022: Yuchen, Jerry, and Xinpeng presented posters in the 2nd UNL Microbiology symposium
- 7/2022: Thanks to NIH ODSS for the supplement grant to our R01 project to make our PUL/CGC data AI/ML ready!
- 7/2022: Bowen, Tang, and Jinfang presented in ISMB 2022 in Madison, WI!
- 6/2022: The lab held the first Computational Biology Summer Workshop. Thanks to Tang, Yuchen, and all the lab for the hard work!
- 6/2022: Thanks to NIAID for funding our R21 project to study anti-CRISPRs!
- 4/2022: Yuchen presented a poster and Bowen presented a talk in 2022 UNL Student Research Days. Bowen won the first-ever Student Research Days Slam and in the news!!!
- 4/2022: All the lab members attend the FDST research symposium. Bowen won the best poster presentation award, congrats!
- 2/2022: Jinfang's Rambutan genome paper is published; former visiting student Bo's polyphenol paper is published, congrats!
- 11/2021: The lab got together to celebrate Thanksgiving!!!
- 11/2021: Xuehuan presented in the 2021 postdoc slam
- 10/2021: The lab took a group picture in front the newly painted Food wall (in how many languages???)!
- 9/2021: The lab welcome new members Orestis and Ria!
- 8/14/2021: Tang received her degree from Chancellor Green.
- 7/13/2021: Tang successfully defended her MS thesis. Congrats, Tang!
- 6/11/2021: The lab had a barbecue picnic in the Holmes Lake Park.
- 5/24/2021: We are featured on Nebraska Today for the R01 award!
- 5/6/2021: Yanbin presented a short lightening talk in JGI's Virtual VEGA Symposium 2021. All talks will be on YouTube.
- 4/2021: Bowen is one of the winners for the UNL Student Research Days, congrats!
- 4/2021: Dan and Tang's Ascomycota pathogen paper is published. Congrats!
- 4/2021: We got the final word that our NIH R01 proposal on CAZyme bioinformatics is funded for four years. Yay!
- 2/2021: Jinfang's Dragon Fruit genome paper is published. Congrats!
- 2/2021: Xuehuan's Zygnema SAG 698-1a and 1b characterization paper is published. Congrats!
- 1/12/2021: Yanbin presented a short video poster in Virtual Conference on Prokaryotic Small Proteins
- 10/21/2020: Catie successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congrats, Dr. Ausland!
- 10/19/2020: Dan successfully defended his MS thesis. Congrats, Dan!
- 10/17/2020: AcrDB paper is published at NAR. Congrats to Bowen!
- 9/17/2020: dbCAN-PUL paper is published at NAR. Congrats to Catie and Jinfang!
- 5/15/2020: AcrFinder paper is published at NAR. Congrats to Bowen!
- 3/27/2020: Lauren successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congrats, Dr. Orton!
- 3/24/2020: Lauren's UTEX 1559 organellar genome paper is published at JXB, Yay!
- 1/11-1/16/2020: We have attended the PAG 2020 meeting in San Diego!
- 9/6/2019: Bowen presented our anti-CRISPR paper in the 10th Annual Symposium in Virology of the Nebraska Center for Virology
- 8/14/2019: Our anti-CRISPR paper is accepted to publish in mSystems. This is our first paper in this new, arising, and exciting research field!
- 5/21/2019: Catie (coming from NIU) and Yanbin (coming from UNL) attended the GLBio 2019 conference in Madison, Wisconsin, and presented posters on our CAZyme research and ORFan research
- 5/16/2019: Elisabeth's 1559 RNA-seq paper is published in Front. Plant Sci.!
- 3/29/2019: Sarah successfully defended her thesis at NIU, congratulations!
- 2/28/2019: We successfully and officially closed our NIH R15 grant. Thank you NIH for supporting our ORFan bioinformatics research for four years!
- 1/9/2019: Sarah's ORFanDB and comparative analysis paper is published in mSystems. This closed all our proposed tasks in the NIH R15 award.
- 1/1/2019: The lab moved to U of Nebraska - Lincoln
- 8/22/2018: The whole lab attended the dept 2018 Welcome Picnic
- 4/19/2018: Congratulations to Catie for winning the Phi Sigma Graduate Research Award! Also congratulations to Sarah for winning the Sydney Mittler Award for Genetics!
- 4/7/2018: The whole lab presented four posters at the BIOS annual Phi Sigma Research Symposium
- 10/9/2017: Our dbCAN-seq database is published online in Nucleic Acids Research. Congratulations to Sarah, Tanner and Li!
- 9/14/2017: The lab had a farewell lunch with Elisabeth, who was a part-time postdoc with us for 3 years and now returned back to Germany. Best wishes to you, Elisabeth!
- 9/5/2017: Our NSF CAREER Grant is in the NIU News and WNIJ News today!
- 7/2017: Dr. Yin visited and talked at 5 institutions in China: Nankai University, Jilin University, Zhengzhou Tobacco Research Institute of CNTC, Ocean University of China and Qingdao Institute Of Bioenergy & Bioprocess Technology Chinese Academy Of Sciences.
- 5/26/2017: Farewell dinner with Marcus who has joined the Argonne National Laboratory as a research staff!
- 5/26/2017: Marcus successfully passed his MS thesis defense! Congatulations!
- 4/8/2017: The whole lab presented five posters at the BIOS annual Phi Sigma Research Symposium
- 4/6/2017: Our lab received an NSF CAREER award (award #: DBI-1652164), the most prestigious and competitive NSF grant in support of the early career development of faculty, for 5 years to develop new bioinformatics tools for CAZyme research!
- 1/7/2017: Our pHMM-tree software and web server is published online in Bioinformatics. Congratulations to Xueqiong and Yasong!
- 4/15/2016: Qasim successfully passed his MS oral exam! Congatulations!
- 4/14/2016: Sydney won the Jerrold H. Zar Endowed Scholarship in Biology! Congratulations!
- 4/9/2016: Marcus presented a poster at the BIOS annual Phi Sigma Research Symposium
- 3/1/2016: Our ORFanFinder software and web server is accepted for publication in Bioinformatics. Congratulations to Alex!
- 1/8/2016: Farewell lunch with Alex
- 12/2015: Alex graduated from NIU computer science with a BS degree. He will be joining Backstop Solutions at Chicago as a software engineer. Congratulations, Alex!
- 12/14/2015: Farewell lunch with Xueqiong who will be returning back to China after an one year visit to our lab!
- 09/2015: Congrats to Marcus for having a nice research paper accepted at Toxins. Alex and Li are co-authors on the paper.
- 07/2015: Farewell lunch with Rahil who will be joining the University of Georgia for a Bioinformatics PhD!
- 07/2015: Rhiannon got admitted to College of Podiatric Medicine of Kent State University, way to go!
- 06/2015: Dr. Yin visited and talked at 4 institutions in China: Shandong University, Yangzhou University, Jilin University and Peking University.
- 05/2015: Congrats to Rahil for receiving his MS degree in Bioinformatics! Our lab's first graduate student!
- 05/2015: Dr. Yin visited and talked at 3 institutions: University of Nebraska, UIC Rockford, and SIUC.
- 05/2015: Congrats to Rahil for having a nice research paper accepted at PLoS ONE!
- 04/16/2015: Congratulations to Rahil for receiving the Sidney Mittler Award (Outstanding BIOS grad student in the area of Genetics)! See dept webpage
- 04/11/2015: all of our lab students presented posters at the BIOS annual Phi Sigma Research Symposium
- 03/19/2015: Rahil successfully defended his MS thesis!
- 03/01/2015: Our lab received an NIH R15 grant (award #: 1R15GM114706-01) for 3 years to study orphan genes in pathogenic bacteria!
- 12/2014: Christmas and farewell lunch to Elis.
- 11/07/2014: Alex presented our PlantCAZyme paper in 2014 CSUI Conference and the 24th Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics
- 07/2014: Undergraduate student Alex's PlantCAZyme paper was accepted, congratulations! Rahil and Nathan are co-authors on the paper
- 06/2014: farewell lunch to Huansheng and Dan. Best wishes for their future career!
- 06/2014: Dr. Yin presented a poster on PlantCAZyme database in the 4th Pan-American Congress on Plants and Bioenergy at the University of Guelph, Canada
- 05/2014: Huansheng's Bioenergy Research paper was accepted, congratulations!
- 04/22/2014: Congratulations to Alex, the 2nd place of URAD (Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day 2014) Award! See the news in NIU Today!
- 04/12/2014: Alex, Rahil and Huansheng presented posters at the BIOS annual Phi Sigma Research Symposium
- 04/2014: Dr Yin received the travel grant to attend the 4th Pan-American Congress on Plants and Bioenergy at the University of Guelph, Canada in June!
- 04/2014: Our BMC Genomics paper is finally accepted; Huansheng and previous lab member Manju were involved in the research, congrats!
- 03/2014: We received the NIU Research & Artistry Award ($15,000) again for building PlantCAZyme database!
- 02/15/2014: Alex presented a poster on PlantCAZyme database at Annual AAAS 2014 meeting in Chicago. Here is the news in NIU Today!
- 02/2014: Huansheng's work on Aphanizomenon flos-aquae NIES-81 genome sequencing is published, congratulations!
- 11/2013: We got the NIU Undergraduate Research Assistantships grant ($1,500) for Spring 2014!
- 08/19/2013: Rahil Taujale of Kathmandu University joined the lab as a Master student. Welcome!
- 07/15-17/2013: Dr. Yin attended the Proteomics & Bioinformatics 2013 meeting in Philadelphia and presented an invited talk on bioenergy related databases
- 07/07-11/2013: Dr. Yin and Huansheng attended the SMBE 2013 meeting in Chicago and presented a poster on cellulosome modules
- 06/26/2013: Daniel Sorensen of Biology joined the lab as BIOS370 student. Welcome!
- 05/16/2013: Alex Ekstrom and Tony Pergrossi of Computer Science joined the lab as summer research assistants supported by R&A grant. Welcome!
- 05/15/2013: Nathan McGinn got an internship at Graybar St Louis as a Application Programmer. Congratulations!
- 04/2013: Nathan McGinn presented posters in BIOS annual Phi Sigma Research Symposium and NIU Undergrad. Research & Artistry Day
- 04/2013: We got the NIU Research & Artistry Award ($15,000) for doing bioenergy research!
- 10/1/2012: Dr. Huansheng Cao of Fordham University joined the lab as a postdoc working on next generation sequencing of cyanobacterial genome/transcriptome and metagenome data analysis
- 10/1/2012: Nathan McGinn of Computer Science department joined the lab as a undergraduate research assistant (supported by the URA grant) working on the dbCAN database and web interface development
- 10/1/2012: Manju Rupani joined the lab as a bioinformatics data analyst working on the comparative study of cell wall related genes in fern and algae using public NGS data
- 09/2012: We got the NIU Undergraduate Research Assistantships grant ($1,500) for Fall 2012!
