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Forbes Women in Science

Director of the Center Dr. Prof. Alla Lapidus was included in the Forbes list of 10 Russian Women in Science!

Award from Academia Europaea’s Russian Club

Alexey Gurevich, CAB senior research fellow, has been recognized by the Russian branch of Academia Europaea for his work on QUAST and NPDtools projects. The Academy’s prizes are awarded once every several years for remarkable achievements by young Russian scientists (under 34 y.o.) in one of the six fields of study: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Earth Sciences, Medicine and the Humanities.

Fourteen winners of the 2019 prizes were announced in December 2020. Congratulations!

Russian President Scholarship

CAB junior research fellow Dmitry Meleshko received a Russian President Scholarship for young scientists (under 35 years) in prioritized economics sectors. His application describes plans for coronaSPAdes and PathRacer future development and was highly praised by the experts. This is the first member of CAB to receive this award! Congratulations!

metaFlye paper is out in Nature Methods!

metaFlye is a new metagenomic-specific version of the Flye long-read genome assembler (ONT and PacBio sequencing).
The paper about the assembler and its application to real and simulated metagenomic datasets is out in Nature Methods (see SPbU press releases in Russian and English). The research project is a result of a collaboration of 11 Russian and American scientists which included two members of our laboratory, Alexey Gurevich and Mike Rayko. The assembler is developed by a UCSD postdoc Mikhael Kolmogorov, you can download and try it here. The research supervisor of the project is Pavel Pevzner, Professor at UCSD and Chief Advisor of the Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology.
The Lab participation in the project was supported by RSF # 19-16-00049.

 

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