Beatriz graduates with a Ph.D. in Microbiology with a designated emphasis in biotechnology on Dec 31st, 2020! Congratulations to Dr. Pereira! Wish you a new journey filled with success! Also see this Beatriz’s fantastic blog about her Ph.D. journey!
Prof. Tagkopoulos chaired the session “Whole-cell and metabolic biodesign” and presented the work “Accelerated knowledge discovery from omics data with active learning” at the 1st International BioDesign Research Conference, December 1st – 18th, 2020, Virtual. Reference: The 1st International BioDesign Research Conference.
A new publication from Derrick Risner, Fangzhou Li, Dr. Jason S. Fell, Dr. Sara A. Pace, Dr. Justin B. Siegel, Dr. Ilias Tagopolous, and Dr. Edward S. Spang, providing a model for assessing the projected cost of animal cell-based meat. A sensitivity analysis of the model identified the nine most influential cost factors for ACBM […]
A new Front. Artif. Intell. article by Jason, Tarani, and Prof. Tagkopoulos! In this work, we applied the learning ontologies via embeddings (LOVE) framework, which takes advantage of the semantic similarity of the word embeddings to the field of food ontologies. The automated method we proposed here is a solution to the manual burden of […]
A new publication from Xiaokang Wang, Navneet Rai, Beatriz Merchel Piovesan Pereira, Ameen Eetemadi, and Ilias Tagkopoulos. How to design experiments that accelerate knowledge discovery on complex biological landscapes remains a tantalizing question. In this paper we designed an optimal experimental design (coined OPEX) framework to guide omics experimentation by selecting the most informative experiments to […]
Gabe joins the lab as a CS PhD student in 2020! Gabe received his B.S. in mechanical engineering at UC Davis, and before joining the lab, he was working as a data scientist at Process Integration and Predictive Analytics, LLC. Learn more from Gabe’s CV!
Christian joins the lab as a CS PhD student in 2020! Christian acquired his B.S. in biochemical engineering at UC Davis, and the Master of Information and Data Science degree at UC Berkeley. Before joining the lab, Christian was also working as a data engineer at Genentech. Learn more from Christian’s CV!
A new publication from Dr. Wai Shun Mak, Dr. Xiaokang Wang, Rigoberto Arenas, Youtian Cui, Dr. Steve J Bertolani, Wen Qiao Deng, Dr. Ilias Tagkopoulos, Dr. David K Wilson, Dr. Justin B Siegel, combining structural biology, genomic mining, and computational modeling to identify structural features critical to aldehyde deformylating oxygenases (ADOs). They discovered latent ADO-like […]
Erol joins the lab as a postdoctoral associate in 2020! Erol received his Ph.D. degree at University of California, San Diego in 2020, and he specializes in bioengineering with the emphasis on machine learning. Learn more from Erol’s CV.
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA) awarded $100M and $40M respectively, $140M in total, to seven newly established artificial intelligence institutes. UC Davis AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems led by Prof. Ilias Tagkopoulos was selected as one of the seven […]