Improving microbiome analysis via curation and decontamination of reference genome databases
Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
Awards
Fellowships and Grants
Predicting clinically-significant microbial biomarkers via differential sequence assembly
Transition Postdoc Fellowship Projects (TPdF), Personalized Health and Related Technologies (PHRT), ETH Board
Identification and Assembly of Alu Repeats in Human Genomes
Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
Identifying Well-Matched Controls for Medical Sequencing
Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
Awards
A fast search tool for biological sequences
SIB Remarkable Outputs 2025, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Making DNA sequencing data more accessible
SIB Remarkable Outputs 2022, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Biosynthetic potential of the global ocean microbiome
SIB Remarkable Outputs 2022, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Metagraph: a versatile framework for scalable annotated de Bruijn graphs
F1000 Best Poster Award, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB)
MicroBeacon: A Microbial Beacon for Cancer Detection
Gold Medal, Best Model, Best Parts Collection, International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM)
Woodsworth College Dean's List, University of Toronto
Queen Elizabeth II Aiming for the Top Scholarship, Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP)