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Recent news
2024
2024-11-14, I'm presenting a poster at Biological Data Science, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, on "ANI, are you OK? Challenges for k-mer-based estimation of evolutionary distances"
2024-10-19, Our Quest for Orthologs Benchmark Service paper is accepted for publication in NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics!
2024-10-19, The GIAB genomic stratifications is published in Nature Communication!
2024-10-15, The Quest for Orthologs consortium is published a piece in Genome Biology and Evolution discussing the challanges in the era of biodiversity genomics.
2024-10-15, I have submitted a grant application. Wish me luck!
2024-10-02, The Minimizer review paper, with great viz for teaching, has been accepted for publication in Genome Biology!
2024-09-06, I've submitted the ANI evaluation abstract to the Biological Data Science! Meet you at CSHL in November 2024.
2024-07-25, FastOMA has been accepted for publication in Nature methods.
2024-06-00, we submitted the revised version of the FastOMA manuscript.
2024-06-03, we received the comments from 3 reviewes for the Minimizer manuscript from Genome Biology.
2024-05-13, we submited the revised manuscriot of the GIAB stratification project.
2024-05-01, starting a new PostDoc position at JHU.
2024-04-25, Sara's paper got published in BMC Genomics.
2024-04-01, sad moments of saying goodbye to friends in Lausanne.
2024-02-20, the status of FastOMA paper submission changed to "All Reviewers Assigned".
2024-01-19, we received a major revision for Sara's paper from BMC Genomics.
2024-01-19, congrats to Arun, our master student, who defended his thesis!
2024-01-16, we submitted the FastOMA manuscript!
2024-01-02, I gave a talk on k-mer approaches at Sharif university.
2023
2023-12-07, we are organsing the QfO8 meeting which will be held in Montreal, Submit your abstract now!
2023-11-07, we submitted the GIAB genomic stratifications manuscript.
2023-11-06, I gave a talk on computional comparative genomics at the Botanical Garden, University of Zurich.
2023-10-23, the OMA 2024 paper got accepted in the NAR journal.
2023-07-27, Sina presented FastOMA in ISMB/ECCB, France!
2023-07-04, Sara defended her master project!
2023-06-01, Fahimeh, who will be our visiting researcher, started her project on copy number variations.
2023-02-07, congragts to Alina, our former intern, who will start her DPhil at Oxford soon!
2022
2022-11-18, Sina gave a lecture as part of the Reviews in Quantitative Biology course.
2022-09-12, Sina presented in ECCB/QfO about BioQA summer project.
2022-08-23, Ali, our research intern, presented his poster at EPFL.
2022-03-17, OMAmo paper is accpeted for publication in Bioinformatics.
2021
2022-10-20, we submitted the OMAmo paper.
2021-09-12, I presented the PhaseRE project on "Identifying recombination location per sample using long reads." in the Basel Computational Biology Conference.
2021-05-01, I arrived in Lausanne (Switzerlands) to start a PostDoc at Department of Computational Biology, the University of Lausanne.
2021-03-01, I've got promoted to the manager of Bioinformatics Department in Life and Me company.
2020
2020-11-22, Alireza's paper on graph total variation got accepted!
2020-00-00, I've started to work for the Life and Me company as a bioinformatic analyst.
2020-09-09, I've submitted a proposal for the Marie Curie Postdoc fellowship (but I didn't get it in the end).
2020-07-28, I defended my PhD thesis with an excellence rank. Hurray!
2020-07-21, The panel of NDORMS-Oxford informed me that they will not be offering me the PostDoc position
2020-07-17, I've got accepted to work as a postdoc in UCL. Unfortunately, I couldn't proceed!
2020-05-05, I've got rejected after an interview with CafeBazaar for a data scientist position.
2019
2019-08-06, Proud to receive an offer letter from Human Genome Sequencing Center as an Exchange visitor.
2019-03-26, My first first-author paper, HapMC, is published in PLOS one, after several rejection in other lower IF journals.
2019-03-21, I had an Skype interview with [The Jackson Laboratory](www.jax.org) as a computational sciences summer intern (but in the end I didn't get it.)
2018-10-14, I've arrived in the Netherlands to join the WUR bioinformatics group as a guest researcher.
2015-09-23, I've started my PhD at Iran university of science and technology.
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