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<a class="white-text" href="{{ site.baseurl }}">Leiserson Research Group</a><br/>
<a class="white-text" href="https://umd.edu/" target="_new">University of Maryland</a>
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<h5>
Welcome to the Leiserson Research Group!
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<p>
Max is leaving his position at U. Maryland to join
<a href='https://mosaic.us/' style="color:rgb(247,245,242);text-decoration:underline" target="_new">Mosaic</a>.
Consequently, the Leiserson Research Group is not accepting new students or postdocs.
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<p class="caption" style="font-size:120%">
We are a research group in the <a href="https://cs.umd.edu" target="_new">Department of Computer Science</a> and <a href="https://cbcb.umiacs.umd.edu" target="_new">Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology</a> at the University of Maryland.
Our research is focused on designing algorithms to make advances in public health, particularly related to <b><i>cancer</i></b>.
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Current topics of interest include cancer genomics, cancer immunotherapy, and network biology.
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<span class="card-title">Somatic mutations</span>
<p>What are the causes and consequences of somatic mutations in cancer?</p>
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<a href="{{site.baseurl}}/research#mutations-in-cancer">Learn more</a>
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<span class="card-title">Network biology</span>
<p>What are the shared patterns in biological networks from different species?</p>
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<a href="{{site.baseurl}}/research#network-biology">Learn more</a>
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<span class="card-title">Immunotherapy</span>
<p>What factors gathered from patients before treatment are predictive of response?</p>
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<a href="{{site.baseurl}}/research#cancer-immunotherapy">Learn more</a>
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<h5>Recent news</h5>
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<b>Apr 10, 2020</b><br/>
Congratulations to <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/people/jason-fan">Jason Fan</a> and <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/people/nick-franzese">Nick Franzese</a> for <a href="https://www.cbcb.umd.edu/about-us/news/two-cbcb-graduate-students-receive-nsf-graduate-research-fellowships" target="_new">receiving NSF Graduate Research Fellowships</a>!
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<b>Dec 17, 2019</b><br/>
Congratulations to Mark Keller for receiving an Honorable Mention for the <a href="https://cra.org/about/awards/outstanding-undergraduate-researcher-award/" target="_new">CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award</a>!
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<b>Dec 4, 2019</b><br/>
Max presents at the <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/beixiao/cs-colloquium-at-au?authuser=0" target="_new">American Computer Science seminar series</a>.
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<b>Nov 19, 2019</b><br/>
Max presents at the <a href="https://btep.ccr.cancer.gov/max-leiserson-umd-nov-19-11-am/" target="_new">National Cancer Institute in the Bioinformatics Training and Education Program</a> seminar series.
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<b>Nov 7, 2019</b><br/>
Max presents at <a href="https://www.bu.edu/bioinformatics/seminars/sysbioseminars/" target="_new">Boston University in the Systems Biology Seminar series</a>.
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<b>Jul 26, 2019</b><br/>
The <i>Signature Markov Model</i> (SigMa) is published in <a href="https://genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13073-019-0659-1" target="_new"><i>Genome Medicine</i></a>.
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<b>Jul 25, 2019</b><br/>
<a href='{{site.baseurl}}/people/welles-robinson' target='_new'>Welles Robinson</a> presents the Tumor Covariate Signature Model at ISMB 2019. Check out the full paper in <a href='https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/35/14/i492/5529117' target='_new'><i>Bioinformatics</i></a>!
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<b>Jul 22, 2019</b><br/>
Congratulations to <a href='{{site.baseurl}}/people/mark-keller' target='_new'>Mark Keller</a> for winning Best Poster at <a href='http://biovis.net/2019/index.html' target='_new'>BioVis@ISMB 2019</a> for his poster on <a href='https://explosig.lrgr.io/' target='_new'>ExploSig</a>.
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<b>Apr 1, 2019</b><br/>
Max is coorganizing a <a href='https://psb.stanford.edu/callfor/papers/mutation/' target='_new'>session on mutational signatures</a> at the <a href='https://psb.stanford.edu/' target='_new'>Pacific Syposium on Biocomputing</a>.
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<b>Mar 8, 2019</b><br/>
The <u>MU</u>lti-Species <u>N</u>etwork <u>K</u>ernel (MUNK) algorithm for diverse cross-species inference is published in <a href='https://academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gkz132/5371270' target='_new'>Nucleic Acids Research</a>!
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<b>Jan 28, 2019</b><br/>
An article on our recent <a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208422" target="_new">PLoS ONE</a> paper appeared in the <a href='https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/features/4320' target='_new'>U. Maryland Today</a>.
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<b>Dec 31, 2018</b><br/>
Our collaboration with Microsoft Research on predicting response to immunotherapy in bladder cancers is out in <a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208422" target="_new">PLoS ONE</a>!
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<b>Dec 1, 2018</b><br/>
Max is PC co-chair for <a href='http://recombccb.recomb2019.org' target='_new'>RECOMB Computational Cancer Biology (CCB)</a> in Washington, DC on May 3-4, 2019.
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<b>Nov 10, 2018</b><br/>
Cindy, Jason, and Max lead a team as part of the <a href='https://mcwic.cs.umd.edu/events/techresearch' target='_new'>Tech+Research</a> workshop at <a href='https://gotechnica.org/' target='_new'>Technica</a>, the largest all-female hackathon.
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<b>Sep 08, 2018</b><br/>
The Hierarchical HotNet algorithm for identifying significantly altered subnetworks is published in <a href="https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/34/17/i972/5093236?rss=1" target="_new">ECCB/Bioinformatics</a>!
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<b>Dec 21, 2017</b><br/>
Our work on cross-species network embeddings has been <a href="http://recomb2018.fr/program/" target="_new">accepted to RECOMB 2018</a>!
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<b>Nov 27, 2017</b><br/>
Max gives a talk at a <a href="https://www.birs.ca/events/2017/5-day-workshops/17w5134/schedule" target="_new">CMO-BIRS workshop</a> in Oaxaca, Mexico
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<b>Sep 07, 2017</b><br/>
Jason Fan joins the group -- welcome Jason!
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<b>Aug 01, 2017</b><br/>
Founding of the Leiserson Research Group at the University of Maryland!
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