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Academic Achievements
October 2025: Our paper 'On the size of the neighborhoods of a word' has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
August 2025: Our preprint 'Accurate hybrid plasmids assembly with HyPlAs' is available on biorXiv.
August 2025: Cedric gives a talk on ancestral gene orders at the workshop 'Novel Mathematical Paradigm for Phylogenomics'.
March 2025: Congratulations to Fatih Karaoglanoglu who successfully defended his PhD.
February 2025: Our paper 'A vector representation for phylogenetic trees' has appeared in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
December 2024: Congratulations to Piyush Agarwal for defending his MSc thesis 'Inference of the effective population size from genomic variation data using a divide & conquer strategy'.
November 2024: Our paper 'PlasEval: a framework for comparing and evaluating plasmid detection tools' has appeared in BMC Bioinformatics.
Research Experience
Currently a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University, leading the 'Computational Methods for Paleogenomics and Comparative Genomics' research group.
Background
Research interests include computational biology, comparative genomics, and cancer genomics. Focused on phylogenomics (construction and analysis of gene families and gene trees), genome rearrangements and the reconstruction of ancestral gene orders, pathogen genomics, and cancer genomics.
Miscellany
Team members include Luca Parmigiani, Leoard Bohnenkämper, Aniket Mane, Fatih Karaoglanoglu, Victor Epain, Pegah Aryadoost, Piyush Agarwal, Andeas Rempel, etc.