CMC Tool Showcase at the CEIRR Annual Network Meeting 2026
May 28, 1:30pm-2:30pm ET; Emory University
Prof. Sarah Cobey and Ananya Saha (U. Chicago) lead a breakout session showcasing new computational tools and methods developed across the CEIRR network.
Speakers:
John Huddleston and Caroline Kikawa – "Tools for generating and visualizing human neutralizing antibody titers”
Adriana Tomic – "Outer LIMITs: Unmasking the Spatial Landscape of Human GC Formation After Intranasal Influenza Vaccination”
Katia Koelle – "An evolutionary model with environmental noise to quantify genetic drift in acute influenza infections”
Sriram Vijendran, Carl Hutter, Tavis Anderson, Sanket Wagle, and Alexey Markin – "Computational updates from the flu-crew at the National Animal Disease Center, USDA-ARS”. They will cover -
PREMISE: A probabilistic framework for source assignment of Illumina reads
A GUI for identifying representative taxa on a phylogeny
A fast and easy-to-use bash pipeline for Oxford Nanopore Technologies influenza A sequences (assembly, classification, and evolutionary inference)
Objective Tree Measures for Assessing Coevolutionary Dynamics
Phylogenetic reference tree generation, and novel sequence placement and classification