Congrats to Yuchen for getting her PhD and graduation!
Lab Updates
News
2025
Congrats to Yi and Jason who moved on to their next positions!
Congrats to Xinpeng for receiving the Bob & Charla Hutkins Outstanding Graduate Student Award, and to Yuchen for receiving the Widaman Distinguished Graduate Fellowship Award!
Siva and Jerry presented in GRC CAZyme 2025!
Yi graduated with her MS degree, congrats!
Thanks to NIH Common Funds for funding our R03 project to profile CAZymes, CGCs, and glycan utilization in Common Funds microbiome data!
2024
The lab welcomes new members at the end of the summer!
Yanbin co-chaired and talked at the software and cloud session of the NIH ODSS special track at ISMB2024.
Yuchen (with Travel Award from ISCB), Siva, and Yanbin attended the GLBIO2024 conference in University of Pittsburgh.
Nebraska Today features our Nature Genetics paper!
Feng's Zygnema genome paper is officially accepted at Nature Genetics, congrats!
We are in the news on Nebraska Today for our work in artificial intelligence/machine learning applications for personalized nutrition!
2023
Congratulations to Yuchen for winning the 1st Place Award Graduate Poster Presentation in the 3rd Annual UNL Microbiology Research Symposium!
Minal defended her PhD successfully. Congrats, Dr. Khatri!
Thanks to NIH ODSS for the supplement grant to our R01 project for exploring cloud computing for CAZyme research!
The lab welcomes new members at the end of the summer!
Jerry successfully defended MS thesis and received the degree!
Yanbin attend the CAZyme GRC (presented a talk), Jerry (poster) and Xinpeng (talk) attended the ISMB 2023.
The lab has three members graduated and moved onto their next journey: Bowen, Jinfang, and Qiwei. Best wishes to all of you!
Bowen defended his PhD successfully. Congrats, Dr. Yang!
2022
Yuchen, Jerry, and Xinpeng presented posters in the 2nd UNL Microbiology symposium
Yanbin talked at The 7th Big Data Forum for Life and Health Sciences organized by Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Thanks to NIH ODSS for the supplement grant to our R01 project to make our PUL/CGC data AI/ML ready!
Bowen, Tang, and Jinfang presented in ISMB 2022 in Madison, WI!
The lab held the first Computational Biology Summer Workshop. Thanks to Tang, Yuchen, and all the lab for the hard work!
Thanks to NIAID for funding our R21 project to study anti-CRISPRs!
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!!!
All the lab members attend the FDST research symposium. Bowen won the best poster presentation award, congrats!
Jinfang's Rambutan genome paper is published; former visiting student Bo's polyphenol paper is published, congrats!
2021
The lab got together to celebrate Thanksgiving!!!
Xuehuan presented in the 2021 postdoc slam
The lab took a group picture in front the newly painted Food wall (in how many languages???)!
The lab welcome new members Orestis and Ria!
Tang received her degree from Chancellor Green.
Tang successfully defended her MS thesis. Congrats, Tang!
The lab had a barbecue picnic in the Holmes Lake Park.
We are featured on Nebraska Today for the R01 award!
Yanbin presented a short lightening talk in JGI's Virtual VEGA Symposium 2021. All talks will be on YouTube.
Bowen is one of the winners for the UNL Student Research Days, congrats!
Dan and Tang's Ascomycota pathogen paper is published. Congrats!
We got the final word that our NIH R01 proposal on CAZyme bioinformatics is funded for four years. Yay!
Jinfang's Dragon Fruit genome paper is published. Congrats!
Xuehuan's Zygnema SAG 698-1a and 1b characterization paper is published. Congrats!
Yanbin presented a short video poster in Virtual Conference on Prokaryotic Small Proteins
2020
Catie successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congrats, Dr. Ausland!
Dan successfully defended his MS thesis. Congrats, Dan!
AcrDB paper is published at NAR. Congrats to Bowen!
dbCAN-PUL paper is published at NAR. Congrats to Catie and Jinfang!
AcrFinder paper is published at NAR. Congrats to Bowen!
Lauren successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congrats, Dr. Orton!
Lauren's UTEX 1559 organellar genome paper is published at JXB, Yay!
We have attended the PAG 2020 meeting in San Diego!
2019
Bowen presented our anti-CRISPR paper in the 10th Annual Symposium in Virology of the Nebraska Center for Virology
Our anti-CRISPR paper is accepted to publish in mSystems. This is our first paper in this new, arising, and exciting research field!
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
Elisabeth's 1559 RNA-seq paper is published in Front. Plant Sci.!
Sarah successfully defended her thesis at NIU, congratulations!
We successfully and officially closed our NIH R15 grant. Thank you NIH for supporting our ORFan bioinformatics research for four years!
Sarah's ORFanDB and comparative analysis paper is published in mSystems. This closed all our proposed tasks in the NIH R15 award.
The lab moved to U of Nebraska - Lincoln
2018
The whole lab attended the dept 2018 Welcome Picnic
Congratulations to Catie for winning the Phi Sigma Graduate Research Award! Also congratulations to Sarah for winning the Sydney Mittler Award for Genetics!
The whole lab presented four posters at the BIOS annual Phi Sigma Research Symposium
2017
Our dbCAN-seq database is published online in Nucleic Acids Research. Congratulations to Sarah, Tanner and Li!
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!
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.
Farewell dinner with Marcus who has joined the Argonne National Laboratory as a research staff!
Marcus successfully passed his MS thesis defense! Congratulations!
The whole lab presented five posters at the BIOS annual Phi Sigma Research Symposium
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!
Our pHMM-tree software and web server is published online in Bioinformatics. Congratulations to Xueqiong and Yasong!
2016
Qasim successfully passed his MS oral exam! Congratulations!
Sydney won the Jerrold H. Zar Endowed Scholarship in Biology! Congratulations!
Marcus presented a poster at the BIOS annual Phi Sigma Research Symposium
Our ORFanFinder software and web server is accepted for publication in Bioinformatics. Congratulations to Alex!
Farewell lunch with Alex
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!
Farewell lunch with Xueqiong who will be returning back to China after an one year visit to our lab!
Congrats to Marcus for having a nice research paper accepted at Toxins. Alex and Li are co-authors on the paper.
Farewell lunch with Rahil who will be joining the University of Georgia for a Bioinformatics PhD!
Rhiannon got admitted to College of Podiatric Medicine of Kent State University, way to go!
Dr. Yin visited and talked at 4 institutions in China: Shandong University, Yangzhou University, Jilin University and Peking University.
Congrats to Rahil for receiving his MS degree in Bioinformatics! Our lab's first graduate student!
Dr. Yin visited and talked at 3 institutions: University of Nebraska, UIC Rockford, and SIUC.
Congrats to Rahil for having a nice research paper accepted at PLoS ONE!
Congratulations to Rahil for receiving the Sidney Mittler Award (Outstanding BIOS grad student in the area of Genetics)! See dept webpage
All of our lab students presented posters at the BIOS annual Phi Sigma Research Symposium
Rahil successfully defended his MS thesis!
Our lab received an NIH R15 grant (award #: 1R15GM114706-01) for 3 years to study orphan genes in pathogenic bacteria!
2014
Christmas and farewell lunch to Elis.
Alex presented our PlantCAZyme paper in 2014 CSUI Conference and the 24th Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics
Undergraduate student Alex's PlantCAZyme paper was accepted, congratulations! Rahil and Nathan are co-authors on the paper.
Farewell lunch to Huansheng and Dan. Best wishes for their future career!
Dr. Yin presented a poster on PlantCAZyme database in the 4th Pan-American Congress on Plants and Bioenergy at the University of Guelph, Canada
Huansheng's Bioenergy Research paper was accepted, congratulations!
Congratulations to Alex, the 2nd place of URAD (Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day 2014) Award! See the news in NIU Today!
Alex, Rahil and Huansheng presented posters at the BIOS annual Phi Sigma Research Symposium
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!
Our BMC Genomics paper is finally accepted; Huansheng and previous lab member Manju were involved in the research, congrats!
We received the NIU Research & Artistry Award ($15,000) again for building PlantCAZyme database!
Alex presented a poster on PlantCAZyme database at Annual AAAS 2014 meeting in Chicago. Here is the news in NIU Today!
Huansheng's work on Aphanizomenon flos-aquae NIES-81 genome sequencing is published, congratulations!
We got the NIU Undergraduate Research Assistantships grant ($1,500) for Spring 2014!
2013
Rahil Taujale of Kathmandu University joined the lab as a Master student. Welcome!
Dr. Yin attended the Proteomics & Bioinformatics 2013 meeting in Philadelphia and presented an invited talk on bioenergy related databases
Dr. Yin and Huansheng attended the SMBE 2013 meeting in Chicago and presented a poster on cellulosome modules
Daniel Sorensen of Biology joined the lab as BIOS370 student. Welcome!
Alex Ekstrom and Tony Pergrossi of Computer Science joined the lab as summer research assistants supported by R&A grant. Welcome!
Nathan McGinn got an internship at Graybar St Louis as a Application Programmer. Congratulations!
Nathan McGinn presented posters in BIOS annual Phi Sigma Research Symposium and NIU Undergrad. Research & Artistry Day
We got the NIU Research & Artistry Award ($15,000) for doing bioenergy research!
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
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
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
We got the NIU Undergraduate Research Assistantships grant ($1,500) for Fall 2012!