08/02/2024: Jiayan (Yoshii) Ma from DGP program decides to join us as the PhD student. Welcome!

07/27/2024: Kundan Baliga from Neuqua Valley High School joined us as a high school intern. Welcome!

07/25/2024: Ravi Bandaru received the runner up award ($10,000 for one year) from Science Olympiad Alumni Research (SOAR) Foundation for his cfDNA research work in our lab. Congrats!

07/19/2024: Sanaz Ghotbaldini received the T32 Carcinogenesis fellowship for her PhD thesis project! Congrats!

07/12/2024: James Li just presented his work did in our lab last summer at the ISMB conference (Montreal, Canada) and received the 2nd place award for the best talk at the student symposium! Congrats!!

05/16/2024: Ethan Lin from Northwestern University won a Weinberg College Summer Research Grant and will join us for the summer internship. Congrats!

04/06/2024: Sanaz Ghotbaldini from Dr. Joshua J Meeks’s lab joins the lab as a co-mentored Ph.D. student. Welcome!

03/30/2024: Our FinaleMe work is accepted by Nature Communications. See report from Northwestern

01/29/2024：Ravi Bandaru from Pen state university joins the lab as a Full-time Data Analyst. Welcome!

09/01/2023：Our lab is moved to Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

05/25/2023：Ravi Bandaru from Pen state university and James Li from Wake Forest University joins the lab for the SURF program this summer. Welcome!

03/16/2023: Dr. Hailu Fu’s paper on NOMe-HiC is online at Genome Biology today. This is a collaboration work with Drs. Li Wang, Louis Muglia, and Matthew Weirauch’s group. Congratulations!

03/07/2023: Dr. Yaping Liu received Focused Research Award from the Sony Research Award Program for our cell-free DNA work!

01/09/2023: Dr. David Katz from Purdue University joins us as a research fellow. Welcome!

11/28/2022: Nayeon Son from MDB program joins us as a rotation student. Welcome!

11/14/2022: Our paper on cell-free DNA fragmentation hotspot is accepted by Genome Medicine (CRAG: De novo characterization of cell-free DNA fragmentation hotspots in plasma whole-genome sequencing)! Drs. Xionghui Zhou, Haizi Zheng, and Hailu FU are the joint first authors of the paper. This is a collaboration project with Dr. Kelsey L. Dillehay McKillip from UC Biorepository and Dr. Susan M. Pinney from UC FCC cohort. Congratulations to all!

09/20/2022: Dr. Yaping Liu received the High Priority, Short-Term Project Award (R56) from NHGRI for our cell-free DNA work!

08/25/2022: Drs. Hailu Fu and Li Wang’s work on single-molecule GTAGMe-seq is selected as the reviewer’s choice (top 10% of total abstracts) by ASHG 2022!

08/01/2022: Dr. Yaping Liu received the Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) (R35) from NIGMS for the next five years of single-cell multi-omics work!

06/07/2022: Dr. Yaping Liu received the Center for Pediatric Genomics (CPG) Pilot Award from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center for single-cell multi-omics.

06/01/2022: Congrats to Michelle Zhu, who did the SURF program here in 2019 summer. She is admitted to the MD program at UT Southwestern in Dallas!

06/01/2022: Congrats to Rosalyn Liou, who did the SURF program here in 2019 summer. She is admitted to the MD program at the University of Toledo!

05/23/2022: Congrats to Ravi Bandaru, he is admitted to Penn State University graduating in 2025 and Sidney Kimmel Medical College graduating in 2029!!

11/03/2021: Our review paper on cell-free DNA fragmentation pattern is accepted by British Journal of Cancer (At the dawn: cell-free DNA fragmentomics and gene regulation)!

07/26/2021: Dr. Yaping Liu received the MOMI pilot grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the cfDNA study in preterm birth.

07/20/2021: Kyle Van Blaricom from University of Cincinnati joins us as an undergraduate intern. Welcome!

07/07/2021: Dr. Yaping Liu received the innovation grant from CCHMC for the screening of early-stage cancers by cell-free DNA fragmentation patterns.

07/07/2021: Alison Jarmas from Dr. Rafi Kopan’s lab joins us as a co-advised graduate student. Welcome!

05/23/2021: Ken Chen from UC Berkley joins us as a SURF student (2021). Welcome!

04/16/2021: Juechen Yang joins us as a rotation student. Welcome!

03/12/2021: Ravi Bandaru joins EpiFluid Lab as a high school research volunteer from Mason High School. Welcome!

01/04/2021 Dr.Yaping Liu received the CCTST Pilot Collaborative Studies Grant award from University of Cincinnati for the study of cfDNA in early-stage cancers.

11/16/2020: Dr. Haizi Zheng and Michelle S. Zhu’s work on FinaleDB is accepted by Bioinformatics! Congratulations! FinaleDB is a database and browser for the cell-free DNA fragmentation.

08/31/2020: Dr. Xionghui Zhou’s work on cell-free DNA fragmentation hotspots in cancer early detection is selected as poster talk (presentation time: 5:50pm EST, 10/27/2020) and reviewer’s choice (top 10%) by ASHG 2020.

08/31/2020: Dr. Haizi Zheng and Michelle Zhu’s work on cell-free DNA fragmentation database is accepted as a poster in ASHG 2020.

08/24/2020: Dr. Haizi Zheng and Michelle Zhu’s preprint manuscript on cell-free DNA fragmentation database is online at BioRxiv now.

08/04/2020: Dr. Yaping Liu is invited to give a virtual talk at Broad Institute.

07/16/2020: Dr. Xionghui Zhou’s preprint manuscript on cell-free DNA fragmentation hotspots in early-stage cancer is online at BioRxiv now.

07/08/2020: Xiangfei Xie from Immunology graduate program joins EpiFluid Lab as a rotation graduate student. Welcome!

04/15/2020: Dr. Yaping Liu is invited to give a labroots webinar by Zymo Research Corp.

02/14/2020: Dr. Haizi Zheng joins EpiFluid Lab as a research associate. Welcome!

02/10/2020: Dr. Yaping Liu is invited to give a talk at UCLA Bioinformatics seminar.

01/07/2020: Our single-cell Methyl-HiC work is highlighted by Nature Method as “Method of the Year 2019”.

10/14/2019: Long Hu joins EpiFluid Lab as a research assistant. Welcome!

08/21/2019: David Paulding joins EpiFluid Lab as a rotation graduate student from MDB program for 2019 fall. Welcome!

08/21/2019: Dzhamal Sarvalov joins EpiFluid Lab as an undergraduate research volunteer from University of Cincinnati. Welcome!

06/24/2019: Dr. Yaping Liu received Trustee Award from Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation for cell-free DNA work.

06/20/2019: Our paper on single-cell Methyl-HiC is accepted by Nature Methods! Dr. Yaping Liu is the co-first author of the paper for the computational analysis. This technology allows us to jointly profile DNA methylation and 3D genome in a same single cell.

06/10/2019: Ava Norton joins EpiFluid Lab as an intern high school student for 2019 summer. Welcome!

05/31/2019: Rosalyn Liou and Michelle Zhu join EpiFluid Lab as SURF students for 2019 summer. Welcome!

04/24/2019: Dr. Yaping Liu received Center for Pediatric Genomics (CPG) Pilot Award from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center for single-cell multi-omics.

04/01/2019: Dr. Hailu Fu joins EpiFluid Lab as a research fellow. Welcome!

04/01/2019: Dr. Xionghui Zhou joins EpiFluid Lab as a research fellow. Welcome!

03/01/2019: Our paper on using cfDNA WGS to infer 3D genome and tissues-of-origin is online at BioRxiv now! This is a team work done with Freenome Inc.

01/14/2019: EpiFluid Lab officially starts at CCHMC