Knights named 2020 Highly Cited Researcher
Associate Professor Knights is one of the most influential researchers in his fields, according to analysis of citation counts by Clarivate Analytics.
When two are better than one: Why some gene duplicates are retained while others perish
New study from the Myers Lab finds that gene “backups” more likely when encoded proteins have little room for change.
When cancer cells can’t make their own fat, they eat more of it, Myers Lab study finds
A switch in fat metabolism from production to import could be exploited for cancer treatment, researchers say.
Immigration to the United States changes a person’s microbiome
The study of communities migrating from Southeast Asia to the United States could provide insight into some of the metabolic health issues affecting immigrants to the country.
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Latest research projects, publications, and talks
Targeted Chemical-Genetic Screen Platform for Identifying Drug Modes-of-Action [preprint]
Posted March 30, 2021
Kevin Lin (Ph.D. student), Maximilian Billmann (post-doctoral associate), Henry Ward (Ph.D. student), Ya-Chu Chang, Anja-Katrin Bielinsky, Chad L. Myers (professor)
Preprint of accepted article for the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science
Scalable Label Propagation for Multi-relational Learning on the Tensor Product of Graphs [journal]
Posted March 4, 2021
Zhuliu Li (Ph.D. student), Raphael Petegrosso (Ph.D. 2019), Shaden Smith (Ph.D. 2019), David Sterling, George Karypis (professor), Rui Kuang (associate professor)
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Deep Learning-Based Approaches for Decoding Motor Intent from Peripheral Nerve Signals [preprint]
Posted February 19, 2021
Diu Khue Luu, Anh Tuan Nguyen, Ming Jiang (postdoctoral associate), Jian Xu, Markus W Drealan, Jonathan Cheng, Edward W Keefer, Qi Zhao (assistant professor), Zhi Yang
Serum Markers Predict Brain Death Due to Trauma and Hypoxia Within 32 hours of Injury [preprint]
Posted February 18, 2021
Daniel Rafter, Brett Sterk, Zhuliu Li (Ph.D. student), Tory Schaaf, Rui Kuang (associate professor), Michael Koller, Uzma Samadani (adjunct associate professor)
Classification of Brain Injury Pathophysiology With GFAP and UCH-L1 [preprint]
Posted February 16, 2021
Daniel Rafter, Zhuliu Li (Ph.D. student), Tory Schaaf, Kristen Gault, Maxwell Thorpe, Shivani Venkatesh, Radhika Edpuganti, Rui Kuang (associate professor), Uzma Samadani (adjunct associate professor)
τ-SGA: synthetic genetic array analysis for systematically screening and quantifying trigenic interactions in yeast [journal]
Posted January 18, 2021
Elena Kuzmin, Mahfuzur Rahman (Ph.D. student), Benjamin VanderSluis (research specialist), Michael Costanzo, Chad L Myers (professor), Brenda J Andrews, Charles Boone
Nature Protocols
Identification of candidate susceptibility genes to Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici in wheat [preprint]
Posted January 1, 2021
Eva C Henningsen, Vahid Omidvar, Rafael Della Coletta, Jean-Michel Michno, Erin Gilbert, Feng Li, Marisa Miller, Chad L Myers (professor), Sean P Gordon, John P Vogel, Brian J Steffenson, Shahryar F Kianian, Cory D Hirsch, Melania Figueroa
The biophysical basis of protein domain compatibility in ion channels [preprint]
Posted December 9, 2020
Willow Coyote-Maestas, David Nedrud, Antonio Suma, Yungui He, Kenneth Matreyek, Douglas Fowler, Vincenzo Carnevale, Chad L. Myers (professor), Daniel Schmidt
Accurate and Efficient KIR Gene and Haplotype Inference from Genome Sequencing Reads with Novel K-mer Signatures [journal]
Posted November 26, 2020
David Roe (BICB Ph.D. student), Rui Kuang (associate professor)
Frontiers in Immunology
A Detailed View of KIR Haplotype Structures and Gene Families as Provided by a New Motif-Based Multiple Sequence Alignment [journal]
Posted November 18, 2020
David Roe (BICB Ph.D. student), Cynthia Vierra-Green, Chul-Woo Pyo, Daniel E. Geraghty, Stephen R. Spellman, Martin Maiers, Rui Kuang (associate professor)
Frontiers in Immunology