I'm honored to have been selected for the Michael Smith Scholar award -- thank you, @msfhr! msfhr.org/1/news_article…

Lab social! (Sept 16 2021)

Long-overdue lab research summary page! sites.google.com/view/libbrecht…

Maxwell Libbrecht has joined our Editorial Board, and will be handling papers in our Genomics section! You can find out more about Max's research here: plos.io/3LLuoJb

#IEEE_TMI paper DEEMD: Drug Efficacy Estimation against #SARSCoV2 based on cell Morphology with Deep Multiple Instance Learning PDF 📰 i.sfu.ca/yFsJPL Code 💽 i.sfu.ca/DReJKS #MedicalImageAnalysis #DeepLearning #COVID19 SFU School of Computing Science Ivan Robert Nabi Libbrecht lab

Congratulations to Dr. Faezeh Bayat for successfully defending her PhD thesis, "Variance-stabilized signals for biological data"!

Lab picnic!

Congratulations to Dr. Alice Yue for successfully defending her PhD thesis, "Computational methods for cytometry"!

New paper in @OUPBioinfo: "Continuous chromatin state feature annotation of the human epigenome", Habib Daneshpajouh, Bowen Chen, Neda Shokraneh, Shohre Masoumi, Kay C Wiese, Max Libbrecht. doi.org/10.1093/bioinf…

New paper in Nature Communications: "Learning representations of chromatin contacts using a RNN identifies genomic drivers of conformation", Kevin Dsouza, Alexandra Maslova, Ediem, Matthias Merkenschlager, Vijay K. Bhargava, Max Libbrecht. doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Review on "Obtaining genetics insights from deep learning via explainable artificial intelligence" out now in Nature Reviews Genetics! Thanks to co-authors Gherman Novakovsky (слава Україні! 🇺🇦), Nick Dexter, Wyeth Wasserman, Sara Mostafavi nature.com/articles/s4157…

Presenting on "Accurate and interpretable prediction of drug resistance in M. tuberculosis using deep learning" at the Mathematics and Statistics of Genomic Epidemiology workshop. Thanks to the organizers for the opportunity to present. BIRS birs.ca/events/2022/5-…

New paper in @OUPBioinfo: "Integrative chromatin domain annotation through graph embedding of Hi-C data", Neda Shokraneh, Mariam Arab, Max Libbrecht.

New preprint: "Robust chromatin state annotation", Mehdi Foroozandeh Marjan Farahbod Max Libbrecht biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

It's official, I've been granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor! A huge thank you to my students, colleagues, mentors and collaborators.

New preprint: "Integrative chromatin state annotation of 234 human ENCODE4 cell types using Segway reveals disease drivers" Marjan Farahbod Mehdi Foroozandeh Habib Daneshpajouh Ben Hitz J. Michael Cherry Max Libbrecht biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Libbrecht lab at Canadian Epigenetics Meeting 2023

🧬 Excited to share our paper "Robust chromatin state annotation," now in Genome Research, Mehdi Foroozandeh, Marjan Farahbod, Max Libbrecht. Paper: bit.ly/scgrp Blog Post: bit.ly/scmbp Follow this thread for details. (1/6)👇

Lab social!

Lab graduation dinner for Abe -- good luck, Abe!