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Big congratulations to Kat and Stephanie on their papers being published and accepted, respectively!

Congrats to Stephanie for successfully passing her candidacy and submitting her new paper developing a tool (PanSweep) to help identify contamination in pangenomes!

Congrats to both Kat and Patrick for their paper submission about functional annotation improvements using adaptive thresholds!

Congrats to Larry Beaver for his new position at the Energy Advancement and Innovation Center here on West Campus. 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 Phylogenize2. In addition, both Stephanie Majernik and Kathryn Kananen gave talks on some of the work they have been doing on pangenome contamination and genome annotation.

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 lab 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 successfully passing his candidacy!

We are very happy to have Emily Bradley join the group as an undergraduate working with their new mentor Alexis Young!

Congrats to Larry Beaver and his wife for the newest addition to their family! We look forward to having you back during the summer and can’t wait to see all the new baby pictures.