Behind the Paper
The real stories behind the latest research papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows
Telling the tale of rising seas and Africa’s Heritage Sites
Together with 12 other colleagues from 13 institutions, across 8 countries and with different scientific backgrounds, we just completed an analysis on vulnerability of coastal African Heritage sites to climate change. Here we discuss our experience and the main outcomes of our efforts.
Commensal or pathogen? ColV plasmids in E. coli evolution
E. coli ST58 are supposed to be environmental commensals and yet they are a globally emerging cause of sepsis. What can genomic epidemiology reveal about their rise to prominence?
What happens to pay allocation when wages becomes transparent?
Tracking salaries and performance outcomes of close to 100,000 US academics over two decades, our latest research finds that pay transparency leads to more equitable and equal wages but also to reduced power of performance-based incentives.
UINMF performs mosaic integration of single-cell multi-omic datasets using nonnegative matrix factorization
Single-cell genomic technologies provide an unprecedented opportunity to define molecular cell types in a data-driven fashion, but present unique data integration challenges. Here we present UINMF, a computational tool designed to improve dataset integrations by leveraging unshared features.
