News

[Dec 2025] Our collaborative paper "Genome Evolution through Polyploidy: Enhancing Plant Stress Resilience in Agriculture" is accepted by PNAS!

[Dec 2025] We received a new translational grant from Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC)!

[Dec 2025] Xinrui Zhong joins our lab as a graduate student. Welcome!

[Dec 2025] Our paper “CTCF couples long-range loop extrusion and diffusion to mediate a diverse Igk repertoire” is accepted by Nature Communications!

[Dec 2025] Abigail and Zoie join our lab as techinal aides. Welcome!

[Oct 2025] Jianrong is invited to give a presentation at MSU Data Science + AI Summit.

[Sep 2025] Our paper “SPACE: Spatially variable gene clustering adjusting for cell type effect for improved spatial domain detection” is published on Nucleic Acids Research!

[Aug 2025] Jianrong is awarded CMSE Faculty Excellence Award!

[Aug 2025] Jianrong is invited to give a talk at the ICIBM conference, Ohio State University, Columbus.

[Aug 2025] Jianrong presents a poster at the CSHL Mechanism of Eukaryotic Transcription Conference, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York.

[Aug 2025] Wai-Ming is awarded Croucher Scholarship. Congratulations!

[Aug 2025] Wai-Ming joins our lab as a graduate student co-advised with Dr. Jianliang Qian. Welcome!

[Aug 2025] Hao is awarded CMSE Alumni Innovation Award. Congratulations!

[Jun 2025] Jianrong is invited to give a talk at the ASBMB conference, Stowers Institute, Kansas City.

[Apr 2025] Jianrong is invited to give a presentation at the MSU Innovation Celebration meeting

[Apr 2025] Our paper “Tensor-FLAMINGO unravels the complexity of single-cell spatial architectures of genomes at high-resolution” is published on Nature Communications!

[Mar 2025] Jianrong is invited to give a talk at the MCBIOS conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

[Nov 2024] Pronoy will be a postdoctoral scientist in Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University. Congratulations!

[Nov 2024] Xinrui is awarded Ginther Research Fellowship. Congratulations!

[Oct 2024] Jianrong is invited to give a talk at the ICIBM conference, Rice University, Houston.

[Sep 2024] Jianrong presents a poster at CSHL Epigenetics and Chromatin, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York.

[Aug 2024] Sikta is selected to give a talk and selected to be Session Chair at the JSM conference. Congratulations!

[Aug 2024] Hongru and Haoyi join our lab as graduate students. Welcome!

[Aug 2024] Alexis and Lindsey join our lab as techinal aides. Welcome!

[Jul 2024] We get SPG grant from MSU Research Foundation!

[Jul 2024] We get a Tetrad grant!

[Jun 2024] Jianrong is invited to give a talk at the ICSA annual conference, Wuhan.

[Jun 2024] Jianrong is invited to give a talk at the Spatial Biology East Coast Congress, Boston.

[Jun 2024] Sikta graduated with a PhD degree and she will be a Mathematical Statistician in FDA. Wish her all the best!

[Jun 2024] Jiaxin graduated with a PhD degree and he will be a Research Scientist in Meta (i.e. Facebook). Wish him all the best!

[May 2024] Jianrong is invited to give a talk at the STATGEN conference, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.

[Apr 2024] Our paper “BayesKAT: bayesian optimal kernel-based test for genetic association studies reveals joint genetic effects in complex diseases” is published on Briefings in Bioinformatics!

[Mar 2024] Jianrong is invited to give a talk at the MCBIOS conference, Emory University, Atlanta.

[Mar 2024] Xinrui is selected to give a talk at the MCBIOS conference, Emory University, Atlanta. Congratulations!

[Jan 2024] The paper “Allele-specific control of rodent and human lncRNA KMT2E-AS1 promotes hypoxic endothelial pathology in pulmonary hypertension” that Jianrong was involved is published on Science Translational Medicine!

[Jan 2024] Adam joins our lab as a techinal aide. Welcome!

[Oct 2023] Kristina joins our lab as a techinal aide. Welcome!

[Oct 2023] We launch a 7-month Interactive Exhibition with MSU Museum.

[Sep 2023] Jianrong presents a poster at American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), Washington DC.

[Sep 2023] Kevin joins our lab as a techinal aide. Welcome!

[Aug 2023] Xinrui joins our lab as a graduate student co-advised with Dr. Jianliang Qian. Welcome!

[Aug 2023] Jianrong presents a poster at CSHL Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription, New York.

[Apr 2023] Jianrong is invited to give a seminar talk at Tulane University, New Orleans.

[Dec 2022] Wenjie graduated with a PhD degree and she will be a Bioinformatics Research Scientist in St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Wish her all the best!

[Jul 2022] Wenjie is awarded Academic Achievement Withrow Fellowship Award, MSU. Congratulations!

[Jun 2022] Hao graduated with a PhD degree and he will be a Research Scientist in Meta (i.e. Facebook). Wish him all the best!

[Jun 2022] We get our NSF MODULUS grant!

[May 2022] Our paper “Reconstruct high-resolution 3D genome structures for diverse cell-types using FLAMINGO” is published on Nature Communications!

[Mar 2022] Pronoy joins our lab as a Postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!

[Jan 2022] Jiwoong will be a Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Florida. Congratulations!

[Dec 2021] Binbin graduated with a PhD degree and she will be a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist in LabCrop. Wish her all the best!

[Oct 2021] Our paper “Predict long-range enhancer regulation based on protein–protein interactions between transcription factors” is published on Nucleic Acids Research!

[Aug 2021] Andre joins our lab as a techinal aide. Welcome!

[May 2021] Sikta is awarded NRT-IMPACTS Fellowship. Congratulations!

[Mar 2021] Jianrong is awarded Withrow Teaching Excellence Award!

[Dec 2020] Jianrong is invited to give a talk at 2020 ICSA Annual Symposium (remote conference due to Covid-19).

[Nov 2020] Jiwoong joins our lab as a Postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!

[Nov 2020] We and our plant biology collaborators get our collaborative NSF grant!

[Oct 2020] We and our biomedical collaborators get our collaborative R01 grant from NIH!

[Sep 2020] Binod will be a Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Department of Mathematics Sciences, Clark Atlanta University. Congratulations!

[Jul 2020] Jianrong get his NSF CAREER award!

[May 2020] Jiaxin is awarded NRT-IMPACTS Fellowship. Congratulations!

[Jan 2020] Wenjie joins our lab as a graduate student. Welcome!

[Sep 2019] Binod joins our lab as a Postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!

[Aug 2019] Jiaxin and Sikta join our lab as graduate students. Welcome!

[Jul 2019] Hongjie will be a Ph.D. student in Department of Statistics, University of Maryland. Congratulations!

[Jul 2019] Jianrong is invited to give a talk at Hanhong Seminar Series, Southwest University, Chongqing.

[Jun 2019] Jianrong is invited to give a talk at 2019 ICSA Annual Symposium, Raleigh.

[Jun 2019] Jianrong is invited to give a talk at 2019 ICIBM Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus.

[May 2019] Hao is awarded NRT-IMPACTS Fellowship. Congratulations!

[Mar 2019] Hao is awarded Honorable Mention of Fitch H. Beach Award, MSU. Congratulations!

[Feb 2019] Binbin is awarded NRT-IMPACTS Fellowship. Congratulations!

[Oct 2018] Jianrong is invited to give a talk at Machine learning seminar series, Michigan State University.

[Sep 2018] Jianrong is invited to give a talk at BMB seminar series, Michigan State University.

[Aug 2018] We get our first R01 grant from NIGMS!

[Jun 2018] Jianrong is invited to give a talk at BEACON Congress Meeting.

[Apr 2018] We get BEACON grant from BEACON center!

[Mar 2018] Hao is awarded First Place of DewGood Award for Public Service, MSU. Congratulations!

[Mar 2018] Hao is awarded Outstanding Poster Award, MSU. Congratulations!

[Mar 2018] Alex joins our lab as a techinal aide. Welcome!

[Jan 2018] Jianrong presents a poster at Keystone Conference of Precise Genome Editing, Keystone, Colorado.

[Jan 2018] Jianrong is invited to give a talk Institute for Integrative Toxicology seminar series of Michigan State University, East Lansing.

[Nov 2017] Jianrong is invited to give a talk at CSE seminar series of Michigan State University, East Lansing.

[Aug 2017] Hongjie joins our lab as a research assistant. Welcome!

[Aug 2017] Hao joins our lab as a graduate student. Welcome!

[Mar 2017] Jianrong is invited to give a talk at Cancer Research Network seminar series of Michigan State University, East Lansing.

[Feb 2017] Jianrong is invited to give a talk at Computational Biology Journal Club, Michigan State University, East Lansing.

[Jan 2017] Binbin joins our lab as a graduate student. Welcome!