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15/12/2020 Grant success: $400K NHMRC Ideas grant to work on "Deep learning and physiology based approach to derive and link obstructive sleep apnoea phenotypes and symptomatology" (collaboration led by Juha Toyras at UQ).
13/11/2020 Grant success: $470K ARC Discovery grant to work on "Safer gene editing tools for Australian livestock and biotech industries" (collaboration with Ernst Wolvetang at UQ).
21/09/2020 Congratulations to Abdullah, who is now officially known as Dr Nazib.
15/09/2020 Congratulations to Sirin, who is now officially known as Dr Roomkham.
01/09/2020 Congratulations to Ben on the successful completion of his Honours degree.
17/07/2020 Our work "Metagenomic Geolocation using Read Signatures" won best poster award at ISMB 2020 (CAMDA track).
08/01/2020 Dimitri's co-authored Conversation article on the latest details of the "CRISPR babies" story, and their implications for the field, is now also available in French.
11/12/2019 Congratulations to Sirin on a successful final seminar.
06/12/2019 Dimitri's co-authored Conversation article on the latest details of the "CRISPR babies" story, and their implications for the field, is now also available in Indonesian.
06/12/2019 Dimitri has co-authored an article for The Conversation on the latest details of the "CRISPR babies" story, and their implications for the field.
03/12/2019 Congratulations to Abdullah on a successful final seminar.
01/12/2019 Congratulations to Michael and Marc on the successful completion of their Honours projects.
25/06/2019 PhD candidature Confirmed! Congratulations Ethan.
21/03/2019 Congratulations to Mike and Ben for securing scholarships for their Honours project.
20/03/2019 Congratulations to Jake, PhD student in the group, for the successful Confirmation of his candidature.
14/03/2019 Dimitri has co-authored an article for The Conversation on the call for a moratorium on germline gene editing in humans.
09/02/2019 New paper out in Nucleic Acids Research, "Haplotype-resolved and integrated genome analysis of the cancer cell line HepG2".
09/02/2019 New paper out in Genome Research, "Comprehensive, integrated, and phased whole-genome analysis of the primary ENCODE cell line K562".
07/12/2018 New paper out in Nature Communications, "Neural network analysis of sleep stages enables efficient diagnosis of narcolepsy".
01/12/2018 Congratulations to James on the successful completion of his Honours project.
27/11/2018 Dimitri has co-authored an article for The Conversation on the "CRISPR babies" story.
28/08/2018 New paper: Y Niwa et al. (2018). "Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors Chrm1 and Chrm3 are essential for REM sleep", Cell Reports 24:2231-2247.
14/08/2018 New paper: D Perrin, G Zuccon (2018). "Recursive module extraction using Louvain and PageRank", F1000Research 7:1286.
04/07/2018 Submission accepted to Sleep Down Under 2018. Come see us this October to learn more about sleep monitoring using consumer wearables.
09/04/2018 Paper accepted to EMBC 2018, evaluating the performance of image registration tools on high-resolution whole-brain images obtained from tissue clearing.
08/03/2018 New paper: S Roomkham, D Lovell, J Cheung, D Perrin (2018). "Promises and challenges in the use of consumer-grade devices for sleep monitoring", IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering 11:53-67.
16/02/2018 New preprint: S Choobdar et al. (2018). "Open community challenge reveals molecular network modules with key roles in diseases", bioRxiv 265553.
14/02/2018 James has completed his VRES project, and is presenting the results of his work in the EECS session (9-11am, GP-B121).
11/01/2018 New paper: LS Lo, J Galloway, B Ploderer, D Perrin (2017). "Armbeta: towards accessible wearable technology to quantify upper limb movement and activities", Proceedings of the 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OzCHI), pp. 356-360.
06/12/2017 Congratulations to Ethan and Jacob (new group member), who have both been successful in the annual scholarship round and will start their PhD in early 2018.
03/12/2017 New preprint: B Zhou et al. (2017). "Comprehensive, Integrated, and Phased Whole-Genome Analysis of the Primary ENCODE Cell Line K562", bioRxiv 192344.
01/12/2017 Congratulations to Ethan, who was working on machine learning for mammography data for his Honours project, and is graduating this month. Good luck on your PhD scholarship application!
24/11/2017 New paper: T Chappell, S Geva, JM Hogan, F Huygens, W Kelly, D Perrin (2017). "Signature-based clustering for analysis of the wound microbiome", Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), pp. 339-346.
01/12/2017 Congratulations to Congratulations to Chris, Honours student in the group, who is graduating this month after completing his work on CRISPR.
10/11/2017 Large grant for the group: Dimitri is part of a team awarded a $3.2m ARC LIEF on "automated high resolution and high contrast cryo-TEM for three-dimensional structural biology".
05/10/2017 New preprint: JB Stephansen et al. (2017). "The use of neural networks in the analysis of sleep stages and the diagnosis of narcolepsy", arXiv:1710.02094.
20/06/2017 Congratulations to Abdullah, PhD student in the group, who just passed his Confirmation seminar.
29/03/2017 Congratulations to Sirin, PhD student in the group, who just passed her Confirmation seminar.
21/02/2017 Dimitri will be representing CORE at Science Meets Parliament next month.
01/01/2017 Welcome to the Biomedical Data Science (BMDS) lab.