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Nhan Ly-Trong submitted his PhD thesis

15 Aug 2024

Nhan Ly-Trong submitted his PhD thesis titled “Phylogenomics in the pandemic era” in June 2024. He has kept working in our lab as an Associate Research Fellow funded by a Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) grant for the project “Real-time genomic epidemiology with IQ-TREE”.


Van Nguyen-Hoang joins our group as a PhD student

29 Jan 2024

Welcome Van Nguyen-Hoang! Van just joined our group as a PhD student. She will work on building a new phylogenetic model for cancer types caused by single nucleotide variations particularly in non-coding RNAs.


Hashara Kumarasinghe joins our group as a PhD student

22 Jan 2024

Welcome Hashara Kumarasinghe! Hashara just joined our group as a PhD student. She will work on machine learning and cloud computing for phylogenomics.


Minh awarded Highly Cited Researcher 2023

01 Dec 2023

Minh Bui was recognised as a highly cited researcher 2023, among 7,125 scientists worldwide. In short, he is among the top 0.1% of researchers in the world, who have published many highly cited papers (in the top 1% papers) during the last 10 years.

Source: VC’s Update - 2023 Alumni Awards and Highly Cited Researchers by the Australian National University.


Field Leader in Evolutionary Biology for Minh

08 Nov 2023

Congratulations to Minh, who has been named the Field Leader in Evolutionary Biology in 2023 by The Australian.

The ANU leads in 12 fields of research: Anthropology; Asian Studies & History; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Birds; Chinese Studies & History; Condensed Matter Physics & Semiconductors; Evolutionary Biology; Geophysics; International Law; Optics & Photonics; Plasma & Fusion; Political Science.


Minh awarded Eureka Prize 2023

19 Jul 2023

Dr. Minh Bui and Prof. Robert Lanfear of the Australian National University (ANU) have been awarded the 2023 Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software for their work on IQ-TREE 2.

Source: Eureka Prize winner reflects on software that armed humanity against COVID-19 by the College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics, ANU.


Thomas Wong joins our group as a research fellow

01 Jul 2023

Welcome Thomas Wong! Thomas just joined our group as a research fellow. He will develop a new multi-tree model for the IQ-TREE software, which improves the software’s ability to identify and analyse complex evolutionary relationships.


Huaiyan Ren joins our group as a PhD student

31 Mar 2023

Welcome Huaiyan Ren! Huaiyan just joined our group as a PhD student. His research will consist of: (1) estimating (maximum likelihood) substitution matrix mixture model for DNA alignment and apply it to real species data; and (2) applying machine learning approaches (CNN) to mixture model selection.


Piyumal Demotte joins our group as a PhD student

30 Nov 2022

Welcome Piyumal Demotte! Piyumal just joined our group as a PhD student. He will work on optimized methods for phylogenetic dating, especially focusing on MCMC and machine learning approaches considering the complexities of biological datasets.


Minh awarded Highly Cited Researcher 2022

15 Nov 2022

Minh Bui was recognised as a highly cited researcher 2022, among 6,938 scientists worldwide. In short, he is among the top 0.1% of researchers in the world, who have published many highly cited papers (in the top 1% papers) during the last 10 years.

Ref: Minh’s researcher profile


Field Leader in Evolutionary Biology for Minh

09 Nov 2022

Congratulations to Minh, who has been named the Field Leader in Evolutionary Biology in 2022 by The Australian.


Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 2022 award

01 Nov 2022

We have recently received a prestigious grant funded by the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative for essential open source software for Science (Cycle 5), together with Prof. Gavin Huttley (PI).

The project is entitled cogent3 Python APIs for IQ-TREE and GraphBin via a Plug-In Architecture PROJECT: To enhance metagenomic analysis by integrating cogent3, GraphBin and IQ-TREE to support innovative genomic technologies for monitoring the impact of viral and bacterial diversity on human health.

Full list of all funded projects here.


Minh awarded Highly Cited Researcher 2021

26 Nov 2021

Minh Bui was recognised as a highly cited researcher 2021, among nearly 6,700 scientists worldwide. In short, he is among the top 0.1% of researchers in the world, who have published many highly cited papers (in the top 1% papers) during the last 10 years.

Source: CECS academic cited 15,000 times, makes world’s ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ list by the College of Engineering and Computer Science, ANU.


Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 2021 award

03 Sep 2021

Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative generously provided a funding of US$ 339,000 for the IQ-TREE software project: “Real-time genomic epidemiology with IQ-TREE”.

This project aims to significantly speed up IQ-TREE to enable real-time genomic epidemiology during ongoing outbreaks such as COVID-19, and to introduce continuous integration and a testing framework to ease software maintenance for all developers.

We are looking for two people for this project!

The highlight news by the College of Engineering and Computer Science.

Details for IQ-TREE project from CZI website.

Full list of all funded projects here.


Minh's seminar for Vietnamese Bioinformatics Network

02 Mar 2021

Minh recently gave a seminar for the Vietnamese Bioinformatics Network about his work with IQ-TREE and challenges in COVID-19 data analysis. His recorded talk is now available on YouTube (in Vietnamese):


Nhan Trong Ly joins our group as a PhD student

04 Jan 2021

Welcome Nhan Trong Ly! Nhan just joined our group as a PhD student. He will work on developing new effective methods for phylogenetic inference to deal with challenges from big biological data sets.


Simons-Moore Foundation grant

01 Sep 2020

We have recently received a prestigious grant funded by the The Simons and Moore Foundation leaded by PIs Andrew Roger, Edward Susko, Laura Eme and Minh Bui.

The project is about new phylogenomic models and methods to resolve the prokaryote to eukaryote transition.


James Barbetti joins our group as software developer

01 Jun 2020

Welcome James Barbetti! James just joined our group a software developer. He will work on improving IQ-TREE for ultra-large genomic datasets, with a particular focus on COVID-19 data.


ARC discovery project 2020 award

04 Dec 2019

We have recently received an Australian Research Council discovery grant 2020, together with Prof. Allen Rodrigo (CI) and A/Prof. Rob Lanfear (co-CI), H/Prof. Lars Jermiin, and Prof. Matt Hahn. The value is $422,697 for a three-year Postdoc.

The topic is about Efficient phylogenetic methods that manage the curse of genomic complexity. This project aims to develop new methods and software to infer the evolutionary history of organisms using genomic data. These new phylogenomic methods need to take account of the complexity of evolutionary processes and/or patterns in time (along the evolutionary tree) and space (along the genome). This project is significant because these methods must merge mathematics and statistics with High-Performance Computing to handle the huge quantities of genetic data and the complexity of evolution itself. An important expected outcome of this project will be the development and release of freely-available software that incorporates these new methods. This project expects to benefit scientists who need to infer phylogenies from genomic data.

Full list of all funded projects here….


Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 2019 award

15 Nov 2019

We have recently received a prestigious grant funded by the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative for essential open source software for Life Science. The project is entitled IQ-TREE for Ultra-Large Genomic Data: To develop an open standard and API for phylogenetic models and improve the speed and scalability of the IQ-TREE software for phylogenetic inference from ultra-large genomic data.

We are looking for a Software Engineer for this project!

The highlight news by the Research School of Computer Science.

Full list of all funded projects here.


Field Leader in Evolutionary Biology for Minh

29 Sep 2019

Congratulations to Minh, who has recently been named the Field Leader in Evolutionary Biology in 2019 by The Australian.

The ANU has also been named the Lead Institution in two fields: Evolutionary Biology and Birds.


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