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We are delighted to share that Jacqui has been appointed to the University of Utah Interdisciplinary T32 Training Program in Computational Approaches to Diabetes and Metabolism Research on September 10, 2026. This prestigious NIH-funded institutional training program brings together multidisciplin…

Congratulations to Sam on being appointed to the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Training Grant (T32): Huntsman Cancer Institute Oncological Data Science (ODSi) Training Program on September 9, 2026! The ODSi training program prepares next-generation re…

The Clement Lab has been awarded an NIH R35 grant starting August 1, 2026! Over the next five years, this funding will support our research program in creating accessible, robust, and reproducible computational and statistical tools to overcome barriers in measuring and interpreting CRISPR genome…

We are thrilled to announce that Jacob's submission, "MethylSeg: Context-Aware Methylome Segmentation Enables Robust PMD Detection in Array and WGBS Data", has been accepted for a 20-minute talk at ISMB 2026 as part of the HiTSeq Track! Partially methylated domains (PMDs) are large-scale epi…

We’re excited to share that Abhay was selected as one of two student presenters for this year’s DBMI Hub Talks, the annual community-wide event hosted by the University of Utah Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI). The event brings together leaders from academia and industry for an evening…

The Clement Lab has been awarded a University of Utah Research Foundation Interdisciplinary Research Initiative seed grant in partnership with Michael Werner's lab to explore how gene regulatory elements evolve across species. Gene regulation - the process that turns genes on and off - is fund…

Sam passed his written and oral qualifying exams! Congratulations Sam, and welcome to PhD candidacy!

Jacob passed his written and oral qualifying exams! Congratulations Jacob, and welcome to PhD candidacy!

Jax Lubkowitz was awarded a lightning talk at ISMB 2025.