2024

• (09/10/2024) Dr. Hao Feng was invited to give a presentation at The University of Illinois at Chicago Cancer Center monthly series of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics seminars, on signal deconvolution and cell-type-specific analysis using -omics data.
• (09/01/2024) We are extremely honored and humbled to receive the NIH/NIGMS Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA, 1R35GM154862). This five-year award will support Dr. Feng’s research to develop novel statistical methods and bioinformatics tools to computationally dissect genomics data.
• (08/09/2024) Our paper cypress: an R/Bioconductor package for cell-type-specific differential expression analysis power assessment has been accepted for publication on Bioinformatics. Shilin Yu and Leslie Meng are joint-first-authors. Congratulations everyone and great team work!
• (08/07/2024) Dr. Feng gave a topic-contributed talk at the 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), to introduce personalized signal deconvolution and cell-type-specific analysis.
• (07/01/2024) Dr. Feng was invited to give a presentation at the International Statistical Genetics and Genomics (ISGG) meeting, to introduce personalized signal deconvolution and cell-type-specific analysis.
• (06/28/2024) Dr. Feng was invited to give a presentation at the International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) 2024 conference, on personalized signal deconvolution and cell-type-specific analysis.
• (05/02/2024) Dr. Feng gave a topic-contributed talk at STATGEN 2024, on personalized signal deconvolution and cell-type-specific analysis.
• (05/02/2024) Leslie (Guanqun) Meng’s gave an invited presentation at STATGEN 2024, the inaugural conference of the American Statistical Association (ASA) Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics (SSGG). Way to go Leslie!
• (04/29/2024) Leslie (Guanqun) Meng’s first-author paper imply: improving cell-type deconvolution accuracy using personalized reference profiles has been accepted for publication on Genome Medicine. Congratulations Leslie and great team work for everyone!
• (03/23/2024) Dr. Hao Feng was invited to give a presentation at the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS) on signal deconvolution and cell-type-specific analysis using -omics data.
• (03/13/2024) Dr. Hao Feng was invited to give a presentation at the BERD seminar at the Center for Clinical & Translational Sciences (CCTS) at UTHealth on signal deconvolution and cell-type-specific analysis using -omics data.
• (02/08/2024) Daoyu Duan’s co-first-author paper magpie: a power evaluation method for differential RNA methylation analysis in N6-methyladenosine sequencing has been accepted for publication on PLOS Computational Biology. Congratulations Daoyu and great team-science work again with Dr. Zhenxing Guo from The Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen!

2023

• (11/16/2023) Dr. Hao Feng was invited to give a presentation at Wayne State University, Center for Urban Responses to Environmental Stressors (CURES) on signal deconvolution and cell-type-specific analysis using -omics data.
• (07/26/2023) Our paper on individual-specific deconvolution reference panel recovery is now published on Genome Biology. Congratulations everyone, and great team-science work with Dr. Qian Li’s group from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
• (07/07/2023) Dr. Hao Feng was invited to give a presentation in ICSA International 2023 to introduce a method to retrieve individual-specific and cell-type-specific reference panels from -omics data, using ISLET.
• (06/19/2023) Dr. Hao Feng was invited to give a presentation in WNAR 2023 to introduce a method to retrieve individual-specific and cell-type-specific reference panels from -omics data, using ISLET.
• (04/21/2023) Dr. Hao Feng was invited to give a presentation in Case Comprehensive Cancer Center to describe the signal deconvolution methods development in -omics data.
• (03/20/2023) Daoyu Duan’s paper Evaluation of epitranscriptome-wide N6-methyladenosine differential analysis methods has been accepted for publication on Briefings in Bioinformatics. Congratulations Daoyu and great team-science work with Dr. Zhenxing Guo from The Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen!

2022

• (12/07/2022) Leslie Meng’s paper A comprehensive assessment of cell type-specific differential expression methods in bulk data has been accepted for publication on Briefings in Bioinformatics. Congratulations Leslie!
• (12/01/2022) Dr. Hao Feng was invited to give a presentation in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh, to introduce novel methods in admixed transcriptome data analysis.
• (10/20/2022) Dr. Hao Feng was invited to give a presentation in the Department of Statistics at University of South Carolina, to introduce a novel method in admixed transcriptome data analysis.
• (10/10/2022) Dr. Hao Feng was invited to give a presentation in the Department of Statistics at University of Missouri, to introduce a novel method in admixed transcriptome data analysis.
• (10/03/2022) Dr. Hao Feng (PI) received a pilot award from American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grants (ACS IRG), through Case Comprehensive Cancer Center.
• (08/07/2022) Dr. Hao Feng gave a presentation on JSM 2022 to introduce NeuCA.
• (07/11/2022) Aditi Singh is joining us as a visiting student. She is currently a graduate student from Wayne State University, Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics. Welcome Aditi!
• (05/14/2022) Congratulations to Ms. Sijia He for graduating from CWRU and joining University of Michigan Biostatistics MS program!
• (03/29/2022) Dr. Hao Feng gave a presentation on ENAR 2022 Spring Meeting to introduce NeuCA.
• (02/14/2022) Daoyu Duan’s paper NeuCA web server: a neural network-based cell annotation tool with web-app and GUI has been accepted for publication on Bioinformatics! Congratulations to Daoyu and great team work with Dr. Ziyi Li at MD Anderson Cancer Center!
• (01/01/2022) Dr. Hao Feng (PI) received 1-year funding support from the Corinne L. Dodero Foundation for the Arts and Sciences and the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) Program for Autism Education and Research.

2021

• (12/21/2021) Drs. Ziyi Li and Hao Feng’s work A neural network-based method for exhaustive cell label assignment using single cell RNA-seq data has been accepted for publication on Scientific Reports. Congratulations!
• (11/01/2021) Dr. Hao Feng is invited to give a presentation on Bioconductor Asia.
• (07/01/2021) PhD students Daoyu Duan and Guanqun(Leslie) Meng are joining the lab. Welcome Daoyu and Leslie!
• (06/11/2021) Ms. Wen Tang is joining us in the role of biostatistician. Welcome Wen!
• (04/23/2021) Dr. Hao Feng is invited to give a presentation on the Joint Biostatistics Symposium (OSU, CWRU, CCF). He is representing CWRU for this year’s presentation.