News

Updates from the lab — new papers, awards, and new members.

August 2, 2024

Jiayan (Yoshii) Ma from the DGP program joins us as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!

July 25, 2024

Ravi Bandaru receives the runner-up award ($10,000) from the Science Olympiad Alumni Research (SOAR) Foundation for his cfDNA research. Congrats!

July 19, 2024

Sanaz Ghotbaldini receives the T32 Carcinogenesis Fellowship for her Ph.D. thesis project. Congrats!

July 12, 2024

James Li presents his work at ISMB (Montreal) and receives 2nd place for best student talk. Congrats!

April 6, 2024

Sanaz Ghotbaldini from Dr. Joshua J. Meeks's lab joins as a co-mentored Ph.D. student. Welcome!

March 30, 2024

Our FinaleMe paper is accepted by Nature Communications. Northwestern news

January 29, 2024

Ravi Bandaru joins the lab as a full-time Data Analyst. Welcome!

September 1, 2023

The lab moves to Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

March 16, 2023

Dr. Hailu Fu's NOMe-HiC paper is published in Genome Biology. Read paper

March 7, 2023

Dr. Yaping Liu receives the Focused Research Award from the Sony Research Award Program for cell-free DNA work.

November 14, 2022

CRAG paper on cfDNA fragmentation hotspots accepted by Genome Medicine. Read paper

August 1, 2022

Dr. Yaping Liu receives the MIRA (R35) award from NIGMS for five years of single-cell multi-omics work.

September 20, 2022

Dr. Yaping Liu receives the R56 High Priority Short-Term Award from NHGRI for cell-free DNA work.

July 26, 2021

Dr. Yaping Liu receives the MOMI pilot grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for cfDNA study in preterm birth.

November 3, 2021

Review paper on cfDNA fragmentation patterns accepted by British Journal of Cancer. Read paper

November 16, 2020

FinaleDB paper accepted by Bioinformatics. Read paper

January 7, 2020

Our single-cell Methyl-HiC work is highlighted by Nature Methods as "Method of the Year 2019."

June 20, 2019

Single-cell Methyl-HiC paper accepted by Nature Methods. Read paper

January 14, 2019

EpiFluid Lab officially starts at CCHMC.