The Wang Lab, in collaboration with Waisman Center researchers, published an important paper titled Molecular and cellular processes disrupted in the early postnatal Down syndrome prefontal cortex in the journal Science. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea1549 Dr. Wang, post …
Research
Notes and news about research in the department
Newton Contributes to Huntington’s Disease Research
Professor and Chair, Michael Newton, was featured in an article on Huntington’s Disease research in the School of Computer, Data, and Information Sciences newsletter. Newton collaborated with Professor Jane Paulsen of the Department of Neurology …
BMI Faculty Profiled in Article: AI in Advancing Medical Research
BMI faculty Daifeng Wang and Irene Ong, along with BMI affiliate faculty Majid Afshar and Pallavi Tiwari, are profiled for their research using AI to advance medical research.
BMI Research Paper Highlighted in All of Us publication
Congratulations to Guanhua Chen, Zhengzheng Tang, BDS alumnus Jifan Gao, and collaborators on having a recently published paper highlighted in the “All of Us Research Highlights” series. This paper was selected because of its public …
Spencer Halberg (Roy Lab) – publication and cover of Nucleic Acids Research
Spencer Halberg of Sushmita Roy’s lab is co-first author on a paper titled “A network-based model of Aspergillus fumigatus elucidates regulators of development and defensive natural products of an opportunistic pathogen” that was published in Nucleic …
AI News: Christina Kendziorski’s lab reports new multi-agent LLM for cell annotation
BMI Professor Christina Kendziorski and her lab report CASSIA, a new multi-agent large language model for automated and interpretable cell annotation in Nature Communications. Large-language models have potential to improve cell annotation, but face challenges, …
D. Wang and T. Lu – New Algorithm to Advance Neurodevelopmental Research
Drs. Daifeng Wang and Tianyuan Lu, and their students, along with Wang Lab alumnus Jerome Choi, PhD, developed a new machine learning algorithm called COSIME, which was published in Nature Machine Intelligence. The manuscript is …
Special Seminar with Bryan Plummer
Jingqi Duan wins the 2025 ENAR Distinguised Student Paper award.
Congratulations to Jingqi Duan for winning the 2025 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper award. Jingqi is mentored by Professor Sunduz Keles and Professor Hyunseung Kang. The winning paper is titled “Causal mediation analysis of perturbations with …
Qiongshi Lu and team propose a statistical method to guarantee the reliability of AI-assisted GWAS
Associate Professor Qiongshi Lu and colleagues were highlighted in a Nature Genetics article for their work on the perils of relying on AI to predict complex traits and disease risks with genome-wide association study (GWAS) data, …