Congrats to Larry Beaver for his new position over at the nergy Advancement and Innovation Center here at the university. We are sad to see you go, but are extremely grateful for everything you have done for the group.

We have returned from ISMB with many a new idea. Patrick Bradley gave a fantastic talk on his tool Phylogenize. In Addition, both Stephanie Majernik and Kathryn Kananen gave their talks on some of the work they have been doing over the year.

Hello from Atlanta this time! ASM was a blast this year and I know we all enjoyed getting to see what everyone in the community is working on. Patrick, Kat, and Christian all presented their research.

Hello from Pittsburgh! Patrick is giving a talk on his tool phylogenize and some of the exciting work that we all have planned for the new release this summer. Some of our work is already on the github but we have exciting new features planned including a database expansion, new internal methods, and making the tool much more accessible.

Congrats to Christian for sucessfully passing his candidacy!