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Todd J. Treangen

@treangen.bsky.social

Computational tools for microbial genomics, metagenomics, & public health πŸ§¬πŸ¦ πŸ”Ž Associate Professor of Computer Science, Rice University πŸ¦‰πŸ’» Treangen Lab website: www.treangenlab.com

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Some of my work from the first year of my PhD is out as a preprint, please check it out!

Virus evolution is rapid and prolific both across and within individuals. However, a significant amount of variation remains hidden due to computational bottlenecks in read-alignment and variant calling

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08.12.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Congrats to Bryce Kille on absolutely smashing his PhD defense at Rice today with advisor @treangen.bsky.social ! Collaborating with Bryce over the past few years has been an absolute delight πŸ‘πŸŽ‰πŸ‘πŸŽ‰

27.01.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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We're hiring: Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. Come join us: Excellent and supportive colleagues at a private university with a beautiful campus and great students! please RT
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21.08.2024 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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Had a great lab retreat on Saturday at rice together with @svillapol.bsky.social and @treangen.bsky.social lab. Amazing talks, discussions and overlap of interests. Won't be the last one :)

29.04.2024 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

10 years on, @bkille.bsky.social @treangen.bsky.social and co. have refreshed Parsnp with a version 2! Build a core genome multi-alignment for 100k SARS genomes or 1k Mtb genomes in under an hour πŸ’¨

01.02.2024 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great day in my life!! Finally defended my Ph.D.!
I can’t do this without the guidance of my Ph.D. advisor
@treangen.bsky.social and my co-advisor @sedlazeck.bsky.social ! I’ll soon join @sedlazeck.bsky.social ’s group at as an postdoc focusing on cancer genetics and cancer epigenetics.

28.11.2023 03:14 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Adam Phillippy A Ken Kennedy Institute Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Adam Phillippy, Senior Investigator at National Human Genome Research Institute, National Inst...

I was waiting for a great topic for my first Bluesky post, and I cannot thing of a better one: I’m thrilled to be hosting @aphillippy.bsky.social at Rice University today and looking forward to his talk at 4pm! events.rice.edu/event/345896...

14.11.2023 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

"Minmers are a generalization of minimizers that enable unbiased local jaccard estimation" aka MashMap3 with Bryce Kille, @erikg.bsky.social, and @treangen.bsky.social is now accepted in Bioinformatics! Many thanks to the reviewers for their very careful reviews doi.org/10.1093/bioi...

12.09.2023 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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