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+- date: Oct 1, 2024
+  headline: Jiaan presents our work on metagenomic profiling of hospital wastewater at the 24th Annual Symposium of the Philippine Network of Microbial Culture Collections.
+  pic: 20241001_PNMCC_Jiaan.jpeg
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 - date: Aug 26, 2024
   headline: Our [new preprint](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.24.609479v1){:target="\_blank"} on the application of structure-aware protein language models to phage-host interaction prediction has been posted on bioRxiv.
 
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