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2024

  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series for the Duke University Genetics & Genomics Program. on November 12, 2024
  • Lyla presents a poster at the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Frontiers in Single Cell Genomics. on November 8, 2024
  • JEFworks lab undergraduate and post-bacc students present their work at BMES! on October 26, 2024
  • Dr. Fan gives a talk to the Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. on October 11, 2024
  • Lyla presents a poster at the MidAtlantic Bioinformatice Conference on Gene count normalization in single-cell imaging-based spatially resolved transcriptomics. on October 4, 2024
  • JEFworks lab members have a bake off at the annual lab retreat. on September 29, 2024
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk at the 4th Annual Penn Conference On Big Data in Biomedical and Population Health Sciences on Artificial Intelligence and Causal Inference in Population Health and Biomedicine. on September 17, 2024
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk at the University of Maryland as part of the Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Genomics seminar series. on September 4, 2024
  • Rafael presents CRAWDAD at the HuBMAP Vasculature Common Coordinate Framework (VCCF) Visualization monthly meeting. on August 26, 2024
  • Dr. Fan speaks to summer high-school students as part of the ISPEED program. Vivien gives ISPEED students a tour of the JEFworks lab. on July 16, 2024
  • Rafael passes his PhD qualifying exam with flying colors! Congratulations Rafael! on July 8, 2024
  • Gohta Aihara graduates from the lab and will be heading to California to pursue his PhD at Caltech! Thanks for being a part of the team and best of luck in your future pursuits! on June 28, 2024
  • Prof. Fan gives an invited talk in the Advances in Spatial Technologies session at the Single-Cell Cancer Biology and also serves on the faculty mentoring panel to discuss Shaping the Future of Single-Cell Cancer Biology. on June 11, 2024
  • JEFworks lab members give talks at the 2024 HuBMAP Annual Meeting. on May 14, 2024
  • JEFworks lab members celebrate the end of the semester with a lab BBQ. on May 3, 2024
  • Prof. Fan gives an invited talk at STATGEN in the session on new mathematical paradigms behind single-cell biology. on April 30, 2024
  • Prof. Fan chairs a panel on the role of AI in neuroscience for the Kavli NDI Annual Symposium. on April 8, 2024
  • Prof. Fan serves on a panel on the future of genomic technologies for JHU BME's 60th anniversary symposium. on April 5, 2024
  • Prof. Fan gives an invited seminar at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. on April 3, 2024
  • Prof. Fan gives a talk at OneNeuro. on March 22, 2024
  • Prof. Fan gives a lightning talk at the BME Faculty Retreat. on March 8, 2024
  • JEFworks Lab members give guest lectures in the Genomic Data Visualizations class. on March 1, 2024
  • The Johns Hopkins News reports on STalign. on February 20, 2024
  • Caleb Hallinan successfully completes his rotations and will join the lab for his PhD! Glad to have you on the team Caleb! on February 19, 2024
  • Lyla gives a talk at the Spatial Multi-Omics for Cancer Systems Biology workshop at Dana Farber. on February 12, 2024
  • Kalen gives an interview about spatial transcriptomics and STalign for an episode of the podcast CompBio Cafe produced by the Black Women Comp Bio network. on February 12, 2024
  • JEFworks lab members present their work at the DOM/WSE Research Retreat! on February 9, 2024
  • JEFworks lab members go ice skating! on February 7, 2024
  • Prof. Fan is interviewed for The Johns Hopkins News-Letter. on February 6, 2024
  • Gohta presents his work at the JHU Genomics Floor Meeting. on January 24, 2024
  • We welcome back Mayling and also Vivien as new undergraduate students in the lab! on January 22, 2024
  • Prof. Fan teaches Genomic Data Visualization again this semester! on January 8, 2024
  • 2023

  • Prof. Fan gives an invited talk at the JHU Epigenomics Workshop. on December 11, 2023
  • Prof. Fan gives an invited talk at the Stanford Biostatistics Workshop in the Department of Biomedical Data Science. on November 30, 2023
  • Prof. Fan gives a keynote talk at RECOMB/ISCB Conference on regulatory and systems genomics at UCLA. on November 29, 2023
  • JEFworks Lab members present their work at the 3rd Annual JHU SIngle Cell Symposium. on November 10, 2023
  • JEFworks Lab members present their work at the Cold Spring Harbor Single Cell Analysis conference. on November 8, 2023
  • JEFworks Lab members carve pumpkins at a fall lab retreat. on October 29, 2023
  • We welcome Caleb Hallinan to the lab! Welcome Caleb! on October 24, 2023
  • Dr. Fan hosts Dr. Jingyi Jessica Li for the Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering Seminar series. on October 23, 2023
  • Dr. Fan speaks to prospective graduate students at the Explore Hopkins Presentation - Future of Medicine seminar. on October 20, 2023
  • Rafael gives an invited virtual talk on CRAWDAD at the Sao Paulo Workshop on Spatial Omics. on October 17, 2023
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk at Single Cell Genomics Conference. on October 11, 2023
  • Dr. Fan hosts Dr. Yun Li for the Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering Seminar series. on September 25, 2023
  • Dr. Fan gives the keynote talk in the Machine Learning algorithms for advancing spatial biology session at the Basel Computational Biology Conference. on September 12, 2023
  • We welcome Srujan (Sami) Singh to the lab! Welcome Sami! on September 7, 2023
  • We welcome Dee Velazquez to the lab! Welcome Dee! on August 28, 2023
  • Lab alumni Mayling starts as an undergraduate student in BME at Hopkins! Welcome (back) to the nest Mayling! on August 18, 2023
  • Manju presents and wins a best poster award at the Cerebellum Gordon Research Conference! Congrats Manju! on August 7, 2023
  • Kalen passes her PhD qualifying exam with flying colors! Congratulations Kalen! on July 27, 2023
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk on How to be Successful as an Undergraduate in Biomedical Engineering at the Hop-In Summer Workshop series for first generation and limited-income college students. on July 26, 2023
  • Iris completes her summer internship and presents her results at lab meeting. Great job Iris! on July 21, 2023
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk at the CSHL Single Cell Analysis course. on July 10, 2023
  • We welcome Rabira Dosho to the lab! Welcome Rabira! on July 3, 2023
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk at the Keystone Conference - Single Cell Biology from Development to Cancer. on June 20, 2023
  • Nikita successfully completes her rotations and has joined a lab for her PhD work focusing on agent-based modeling in aging. Best of luck in your future pursuits Nikita! on June 14, 2023
  • Gohta graduates from Hopkins and continues with the lab as a software developer! on May 30, 2023
  • We welcome Iris Kwon to the lab! Welcome Iris! on May 22, 2023
  • Feiyang Huang graduates from Hopkins and will be heading to New York City to pursue his PhD at the Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine program! Thanks for being a part of the team and best of luck in your future pursuits! on May 19, 2023
  • Dr. Fan shares her views on why it's worth making computational methods easy to use in a Nature Careers column. on April 27, 2023
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk at BME Seminar Series at Columbia University. on April 21, 2023
  • Brendan Miller transitions to a new role as a Spatial Transcriptomics Computational Biologist at Merck! Thanks for being a part of the team and best of luck in your future pursuits! on April 13, 2023
  • Prospective BME PhD student Ruiyang visits the JEFworks Lab! on March 31, 2023
  • Manju receives an Honorable Mention for her NSF GRFP. Congratulations Manju! on March 30, 2023
  • Dr. Fan gives a talk at the HuBMAP Demo Day. on March 27, 2023
  • Manju presents her work at the JHU Genomics Floor Meeting. on March 22, 2023
  • Manju passes her PhD qualifying exam with flying colors! Congratulations Manju! on March 10, 2023
  • Kalen and Manju give guest lectures for Prof. Fan's course on Genomic Data Visualization. on March 6, 2023
  • Rafael dos Santos Peixoto successfully completes his rotations and will join the lab for his PhD! Glad to have you on the team Rafael! on February 20, 2023
  • Brendan gives an invited talk for the Bioinformatics Training and Education Program at the National Cancer Institute on February 17, 2023
  • Lyla present her research at the DOM/WSE Research Retreat! on February 17, 2023
  • Prof. Fan is featured in the latest edition of JHU Engineering Magazine. on January 31, 2023
  • We welcome Gohta Aihara to the lab! Welcome Gohta! on January 27, 2023
  • Prof. Fan teaches Genomic Data Visualization again this semester! on January 23, 2023
  • 2022

  • Happy holidays from the JEFworks Lab! on December 19, 2022
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk at the Spectra of Life EMBL PhD Symposium. on December 7, 2022
  • Brendan gives an invited talk at the Single Cell Club at NYU Langone ABL (Applied Bioinformatics Laboratories). on November 14, 2022
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk at the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences (IBBS) 21st anniversary sympsoium. on November 10, 2022
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk at the Translational Data Science Seminar Series at Fred Hutch. on November 3, 2022
  • We welcome Rafael dos Santos Peixoto to the lab! Welcome Rafael! on November 1, 2022
  • Dr. Fan hosts Dr. Michalina Janiszewska for the Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering Seminar series. on October 17, 2022
  • Vikram successfully completes his rotations and has joined a lab for his PhD work focusing on genomics. Best of luck in your future pursuits Vikram! on October 15, 2022
  • JEFworks Lab members give invited talks as part of the Partnering Towards Discovery seminar series. on October 11, 2022
  • Dr. Fan speaks to the current cohort of NCI F99/K00 awardees as a panelist at the annual fellows meeting. on September 23, 2022
  • JEFworks Lab members present their research at the DOM/WSE Research Retreat! Congrats to Brendan for winning the WSE Trainee Award! on September 20, 2022
  • JEFworks Lab joins the HuBMAP consortium!. Dr. Fan meet other consortia members at the annual Kickoff Meeting! on September 13, 2022
  • Mayling successfully completes her lab internship and will be writing up her research results for the Regeneron Science Talent Search competition. Best of luck Mayling! on August 19, 2022
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Department of Biostatistics Seminar series. on August 18, 2022
  • JEFworks Lab members paint their science at a summer lab retreat. on August 2, 2022
  • Dr. Fan teaches highschool summer students about spatial transcriptomics and data analysis as part of the ISPEED program. on July 27, 2022
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk at the Workshop in Computational Biology at ICML. on July 22, 2022
  • JEFworks Lab members give invited talks and poster presentations at Bioengineering Solutions for Biology and Medicine in Munich Germany. on July 6, 2022
  • Kalen presents her work at the JHU Genomics Floor Meeting. on June 29, 2022
  • JEFworks Lab members make tie dye shirts! on June 28, 2022
  • We welcome Mayling Chen to the lab! Welcome Mayling! on June 21, 2022
  • Manju Anant successfully completes her rotations and will join the lab for her PhD! Glad to have you on the team Manju! on June 20, 2022
  • Lyla gives an invited talk for the virtual forum on Understanding Cells in Context - Spatial Transcriptomics organized by The Jackson Laboratory. on May 23, 2022
  • Arpan Sahoo graduates from Hopkins and will be pursuing his MD at the Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida! Thanks for being a part of the team and best of luck in your future pursuits! on May 20, 2022
  • Dr. Fan co-chairs the Single Cell and Developmental Biology session at the Biology of Genomes conference at Cold Spring Harbor. on May 12, 2022
  • Irika successfully completes her rotations and has joined a lab for her PhD work focusing on neurodegeneration and glia. Best of luck in your future pursuits Irika! on May 4, 2022
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk at the Biomedical Engineering Seminar at AUB. on April 25, 2022
  • Dr. Fan speaks with the Boston-area Women in Bioinformatics group as part of their Fireside Chat series. on April 7, 2022
  • We welcome Vikram Shivakumar to the lab! Welcome Vikram! on April 4, 2022
  • Dr. Fan gives a talk at ENAR as part of the session on Recent Advances in Statistical Methods for Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics Data Analysis. on March 30, 2022
  • We welcome Kalen Clifton to the lab! Welcome Kalen! on March 21, 2022
  • Brendan gives an invited talk as part of the CNS Research Showcase at Indiana University. on March 21, 2022
  • Prospective BME PhD students Jodi and Nikita visit the JEFworks Lab! on March 18, 2022
  • Brendan and Lyla give guest lectures for Prof. Fan's course on Genomic Data Visualization. on March 9, 2022
  • Lyla passes her PhD qualifying exam with flying colors! Congratulations Lyla! on February 24, 2022
  • Arpan presents his work at the JHU Genomics Collective meeting. on February 23, 2022
  • Brendan gives an update to his work at the JHU Genomics Collective meeting. on February 9, 2022
  • Dr. Fan joins the BICCN as an affiliate member and gives a talk on common coordinate frameworks for aligning spatially resolved transcriptomics data. on February 7, 2022
  • Prof. Fan teaches a new course on Genomic Data Visualization this semester! on January 24, 2022
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk at the Maths in Life Sciences Seminar Series jointly run by the Applied Maths and Biostats/Data Science departments here at the University of Manchester in the UK. on January 17, 2022
  • 2021

  • Happy holidays from the JEFworks Lab! on December 20, 2021
  • Lyla gives an invited talk at the Learning Meaningful Representations of Life conference at NeurIPS 2021. on December 14, 2021
  • Dr. Fan gives a grand rounds presentation at Weill Cornell Medicine's department of Pathology. on December 13, 2021
  • We welcome Irika Sinha to the lab! Welcome Irika! on December 7, 2021
  • Jose Delgado successfully completes his ICR Internship with the lab. Best of luck in your future pursuits Jose! on December 6, 2021
  • Congrats to the 2021 Rising Stars in Engineering in Health! on November 21, 2021
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Bioinformatics and Comp Bio Seminar series. on November 18, 2021
  • Dr. Fan hosts Dr. Elham Azizi for the Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering Seminar series. on November 15, 2021
  • Dr. Fan kicks off day 3 of the CSHL Single Cell Analysis meeting with her invited talk on Computational Approaches for Spatial Transcriptomic Data Analysis. on November 12, 2021
  • Lyla gives a lightning talk on VeloViz at the CSHL Single Cell Analysis meeting. on November 10, 2021
  • Have a fun and spooky Halloween from the JEFworks Lab! on October 29, 2021
  • The JEFworks lab goes on a lab hike! on October 24, 2021
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk at the MIT Bioinformatics Seminar series. on October 20, 2021
  • Lyla presents VeloViz at the JHU Symposium on Genomics and Bioinformatics 2021. on October 14, 2021
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk at The SBP Medical Discovery Institute for the C3 Single Cell Space Force seminar series. on October 4, 2021
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk at Next Generation Genomics 2021. on September 27, 2021
  • We welcome Jose Delgado to the lab as part of the Introduction to Computing Research (ICR) program. Welcome Jose! on September 21, 2021
  • We welcome Manjari (Manju) Anant to the lab! Welcome Manju! on September 14, 2021
  • Brendan presents his work at the University of Sydney Statistical Bioinformatics Seminar series. on September 13, 2021
  • Dr. Fan talks with JHU graduate students and post-docs about Research Intensive [STEM] Positions at the PHutures Academic Job Search Series. on September 2, 2021
  • The JEFworks lab receives support from the NIH/NIGMS Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (R35 MIRA). on September 1, 2021
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk with Daniel Tward and Michael Miller on Multi-scale representations of the molecular and tissue continuum at the BICCN morphology working group meeting. on September 1, 2021
  • The JEFworks Lab is slowly transitioning to in-person. Welcome back! on August 30, 2021
  • Dr. Fan gives the Keynote address at the Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (HGWISE) + Learn with Leaders Summer Research Workshop to a group of highschool girls. on August 23, 2021
  • Leela successfully completes her summer internship with the JEFworks Lab under the mentorship and guidance of Lyla. Best of luck Leela! on August 22, 2021
  • Local JEFworks Lab members meet for the first time in person for Lab Lunch! on July 15, 2021
  • We welcome Leela Mehta-Harwitz to the lab! Welcome Leela! on June 22, 2021
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited seminar at the Spatial Omics Seminar series. on June 11, 2021
  • Dr. Fan participates in the Break Through Cancer panel on Spatial Profiling. on June 9, 2021
  • The JEFworks lab receives support from the NSF CAREER awards. on June 8, 2021
  • Lab alumni Catherine graduates from highschool! Congrats Catherine! on June 2, 2021
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited seminar at the USC Biostatistics Division. on May 20, 2021
  • Brendan presents his work at the JHU Genomics Collective meeting. on May 19, 2021
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk to the Pfizer Single Cell working group. on April 26, 2021
  • Lyla presents her work at the Broad Single Cell Working Group. on April 20, 2021
  • Dr. Fan teaches undergraduate students about analyzing single cell spatially resolved transcriptomics data in a hands-on coding workshop. on April 10, 2021
  • Lyla presents her work at the Women of Whiting Symposium Women in STEM Symposium on April 9, 2021
  • Congratulations to Tobi Adelaja on the new position in his home city of Chicago. Best of luck Tobi! on March 26, 2021
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited talk at the Single Cell Biology Keystone eSymposium. on March 18, 2021
  • Dr. Fan hosts Dr. David Van Valen for the Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering Seminar series. on March 15, 2021
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited seminar at the Brigham and Women's Hospital Channing Division of Network Medicine. on March 9, 2021
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited seminar at the UCLA Brain Mapping Center. on March 4, 2021
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited seminar and spends the day virtually with the SKCCC Research Program in Quantitative Sciences at JHMI on February 18, 2021
  • Lyla presents her work on VeloViz at the JHU Genomics Collective meeting on February 10, 2021
  • 2020

  • Happy holidays from the JEFworks Lab! on December 18, 2020
  • Dr. Fan gives an invited seminar and spends the day virtually with the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department at JHSPH on December 7, 2020
  • We welcome Feiyang Huang to the lab. Welcome Feiyang! on November 13, 2020
  • Catherine Lo successfully completes her lab internship and will be writing up her research results for the Regeneron Science Talent Search competition. Best of luck Catherine! on November 9, 2020
  • Dr. Fan gives a virtual invited talks as part of the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference, the JHU Symposium on Genomics and Bioinformatics, and the Kavli NDI Breakfast Club on October 27, 2020
  • Dr. Fan gives a virtual invited talk as part of the Keck Seminar Series. on October 2, 2020
  • Lyla Atta successfully completes her rotations and will join the lab for her PhD! Glad to have you on the team Lyla! on September 19, 2020
  • We welcome Tobi Adelaja to the lab as a visiting post-doctoral fellow. Welcome Tobi! on September 8, 2020
  • We welcome Lyla Atta to the lab! Welcome Lyla! on August 10, 2020
  • We welcome Brendan Miller to the lab! Welcome Brendan! on July 15, 2020
  • The JEFworks Lab officially launches at Johns Hopkins University! on July 1, 2020
  • We welcome Catherine Lo to the lab! Welcome Catherine! on June 19, 2020
  • We welcome Arpan Sahoo to the lab! Welcome Arpan! on June 1, 2020
  • 2019

  • Congrats to Dr. Fan for being in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Healthcare List! on December 3, 2019
  • Dr. Fan wins the 2019 Nature Research Award for Inspiring Science. on October 15, 2019
  • Dr. Fan gives invited talks at KOGO and SGI. on September 5, 2019
  • Dr. Fan gives invited talks at Bio-IT World and the MCTB Symposium at ASU. on April 21, 2019
  • 2018

  • NCI approves Dr. Fan's K00 grant to continue her work in developing statistical methods for characterizing tumor heterogeneity at the single cell level on April 20, 2018
  • Dr. Fan starts her post-doctoral fellowship in Dr. Xiaowei Zhuang's lab at Harvard University on March 1, 2018