2025

April: Amirsaman and Brian attended AACR 2025. See their abstracts below, along with Diego's, a lab collaborator.        

1. "Dissecting tumor gene expression from cfDNA EPIC-Seq profiles" by Amirsaman Ashtari: https://aacrjournals.org/cancerres/article/85/8_Supplement_1/2384/754834
2. "An AI framework for genome-wide genotyping using targeted sequencing data" by Amirsaman Ashtari: https://aacrjournals.org/cancerres/article/85/8_Supplement_1/1116/759397
3. "A mathematical model for cfDNA fragmentation" by Brian Liu: https://aacrjournals.org/cancerres/article/85/8_Supplement_1/6243/760965
4. "An enhanced ctDNA burden estimation" by Diego Almanza: https://aacrjournals.org/cancerres/article/85/8_Supplement_1/2384/754834

March: Nourya and Isabel departed the lab.

February: Welcome our newest addition, Seraphina Shi, as a postdoctoral scholar!

January: Welcoming Isabel Michel as a new member to the lab!

2024

October: Pulkit and Meenal departed the lab.  Welcoming new RAs, Nourya Cohen and Brian Liu (returning), and Bioinformatician, Mengran Zhang!

September: Welcome Amirsaman Ashtari as our lab's first postdoc!

August: Congratulations, Leslie, on receiving the IDHE Research Fellowship!

July: Welcome Leslie Espinoza Campomanes and Meenal Gupta as our new RAs!

June: Brian Liu departed the lab.

April: Welcome Eden Luvishis, Pulkit Goel, and Brian Liu to the Esfahani lab!

March: Dr. Esfahani officially started his lab.