• [Oct, 2022] Yatish gives a keynote talk at the NGS 2022 conference organized by the American Society for Microbiology.

  • [Sep, 2022] Yatish gives a talk at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a chalk talk at the UCSD Undergraduate Bioinformatics Club (UBIC).

  • [Sep, 2022] Turakhia Lab welcomes new members Arkid Bera, Yingqi Cao, Debabrata Chaudhury, Dhruvi Lodhavia and Harsh Motwani to the lab.

  • [Sep, 2022] Turakhia Lab joins the SEARCH team which is tracking the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in San Diego.

  • [Aug, 2022] RIPPLES manuscript on SARS-CoV-2 recombination is published in Nature. Read press release. Congratulations, Cheng Ye and Kyle Smith, for contributing to this study!

  • [Jul, 2022] Yatish presents at phyloseminar. Watch recording.

  • [Jun, 2022] matOptimize is published in Bioinformatics! Read press coverage. Congratulations, Cheng et al.!

  • [Jun, 2022] High school interns Vidhi Kulkarnia and Ronnie Volman join the lab for Summer 2022. Welcome, Vidhi and Ronnie!

  • [Jun, 2022] Alireza presents his work at AACBB 2022, held in conjunction with ISCA 2022.

  • [Jun, 2022] Undergraduate researchers Arthur Lu, Crystal Zou and Kevin Lie join the lab. Welcome, Arthur, Crystal and Kevin!

  • [May, 2022] Cheng Ye wins ECE best undergraduate research award 2022! Read Cheng's story here. Congratulations, Cheng!

  • [May, 2022] Yatish presents an invited talk on "Pandemic-scale Phylogenetics" at the HiCOMB 2022 workshop

  • [Apr, 2022] Undergraduate researchers Carol Bao and Xuan Wang join the lab for Spring and Summer internships

  • [Apr, 2022] Yatish starts teaching ECE 111: Advanced Digital Design Project

  • [Mar 2022] Turakhia Lab has a fun outing in Catalina Island during the Spring break!

  • [Jan, 2022] Cheng Ye et al. release a preprint on matOptimize: a parallel tree optimization tool capable of handling million-scale SARS-CoV-2 phylogenies

  • [Jan, 2022] Yatish starts teaching the graduate course ECE 284: Parallel Computing in Bioinformatics

  • [Jan, 2022] Alireza Mohammadidoost (PhD, ECE) joins the lab. Welcome, Alireza!

  • [Dec, 2021] Cheng Ye et al. release a preprint on pandemic-scale phylogenetics, which is covered by The Medical News

  • [Nov, 2021] Yatish is quoted by The Guardian on the Omicron variant

  • [Nov, 2021] Yatish gives a talk on "Pandemic-scale Phylogenetics" in the CSE 290 class at UCSD

  • [Nov, 2021] Angie Hinrichs (UCSC) highlights UShER and matOptimize at the StaPH-B meeting

  • [Sep, 2021] Manuscript on matUtlils and the UCSC SARS-CoV-2 tree database published in Molecular Biology and Evolution (MBE)

  • [Sep, 2021] Sumit Walia (PhD, ECE) and Kyle Smith (UG, Bioinformatics) join the lab. Welcome, Sumit and Kyle!

  • [Sep, 2021] RIPPLES and UShER are featured in an article in The Scientist

  • [Sep, 2021] Devika and Shoh wrap up their summer research internships. Congratulations!

  • [Aug, 2021] Yatish provides a tutorial on UShER at the Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (VEME 2021)

  • [Aug, 2021] The Medical News features our work on SARS-CoV-2 recombination

  • [Aug, 2021] A preprint on RIPPLES, with contributions from Yatish (co-first author) and Cheng, is posted on bioRxiv

  • [Jul, 2021] Yatish interviews with The Wired on the Delta variant

  • [Jul, 2021] Yatish officially starts at UCSD as an Assistant Professor

  • [May, 2021] UShER is featured by GenomeWeb, UCSC NewsCenter, MedicalXPress, and several other media outlets

  • [May, 2021] Manuscript on UShER published in Nature Genetics

  • [Apr, 2021] Devika Torvi and Shoh Mollenkamp join the lab for Spring and Summer internships

  • [Apr, 2021] Zihao Kong joins the lab for research

  • [Apr, 2021] Yatish gives a seminar talk on UShER for the BME 281C class at UCSC

  • [Apr, 2021] UCSC makes an announcement about the UShER-based SARS-CoV-2 tree that just surpassed 1M genomes

  • [Apr, 2021] Yatish contributes to a manuscript published in Genome Biology and Evoution (GBE)

  • [Jan, 2021] Cheng Ye (UG, ECE) joined the lab