News

April 10, 2025
New preprint from collaborative work with Kshitiz’ and Agmon’s labs on cancer cell adaption to hypoxia

March 27, 2025
We’re honored that our cancer reversion venture was chosen to join the NSF-sponsored Northeast Regional I-Corps program for entrepreneurial research teams.

October 15, 2024
Dr. Vera-Licona will give an invited talk at the Third Meeting in Mathematical Biology, Non Arquimidean and Computational Methods the week of November 3rd in Yucatan, Mexico

August 16, 2024
Excited to announce the publication of our collaborative paper with the Kshitiz and Agmon labs in Molecular Carcinogenesis. Read more here

June 05, 2024
We are excited to welcome the MD/PhD student Kevin Liu, who is joining our lab for a summer rotation.

May 23, 2024
We are happy to welcome Simran Jain, a Bioengineering undergraduate student from UConn, who is joining our lab as a summer intern through the Health Research Program (HRP).

May 06, 2024
We are thrilled to celebrate Dr. Lauren Marazzi’s achievement as she completes her MD/PhD and prepares to begin her residency at Johns Hopkins. After a beautiful commencement ceremony, we couldn’t be prouder of her hard work, dedication, and the impact she’s had on our lab. We look forward to following her continued success in the next exciting chapter of her medical career.

May 03, 2024
Dr. Vera-Licona will present the lab work on cancer reprogramming in the Diversity in Math Bio as part of the 2024 SMB Summer Seminar Series, on June 4th

March 19, 2024
Dr. Vera-Licona will give an invited talk at the Math Department, University of California, Riverside on May 1st, 2024

January 3, 2024
Dr. Vera-Licona will give an invited talk in the special session Computational Biomedicine: Methods – Models – Applications at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) 2024 in San Francisco, CA.

November 8, 2023
Dr. Vera-Licona will give an invited talk at the Inauguration of the Mexican Biology and Mathematics Network (RedMexBiomate) in Cuernavaca, Mexico

October 11, 2023
Dr. Vera-Licona will present their efforts to construct an Encyclopedia of Cancer Cell Reversion at the International Conference of Systems Biology (ICSB 2023) within the Systems Biology of Cancer Session

October 11, 2023
Today, Lauren Marazzi will introduce NETISCE at the International Conference of Systems Biology (ICSB 2023) within the Network Biology Session

March 20, 2023
Dr. Vera-Licona will give an invited talk in June at the Centre International de Recontres Mathématiques (CIRM) in Marseille, France during the workshop on Networks and Biological Models Inference in the CNRS Bioss working group on symbolic systems biology

October 13, 2022
Dr. Vera-Licona will give a talk today at the International Conference of Systems Biology (ICSB 2022) in Berlin within the Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Session

July 29, 2022
Today Dr. Vera-Licona will give a talk at Institut Curie in Paris. The talk will be entitled A dynamical systems and control theory approach to cell reprogramming

June 20, 2022
New paper! We introduce NETISCE, a novel computational tool for identifying cell fate reprogramming targets in static networks

June 21, 2022
Dr. Vera-Licona & collaborators received award from the Interstellar Initiative Alumni Program by the New York Academy of Sciences and Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development. See coverage in UConn Today news

June 20, 2022
Welcome to Anna Kopec, our 2022 summer high school intern!

June 1, 2022
Welcome to Alex Jones, Ananya Patil and Zuizz Saeed, our summer undergraduate students!

April 14, 2022
Lauren successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations Lauren! We wish her a successful continuation with the last MD portion of her MD/PhD

January 1, 2022
New paper on bioRxiv introducing NETISCE, a network-based cell reprogramming tool

July 31, 2021
Congratulations to Lauren and her team for winning in the Best Tool category at the 2021 PhysiCell Virtual Workshop & Hackathon.

July 6, 2021
Welcome to Ananya Patil and Milan Shah, our summer high school students!

June 25, 2021
Dr. Vera-Licona will deliver invited talk at the NetBioMed 2021 Satellite Meeting as part of the Networks 2021: A Joint Sunbelt and (Network Science Society) NetSci Conference

May 17, 2021
The paper on the role of MyD88 in macrophage mediated recognition and clearance of Lyme disease is published ! A wonderful collaboration with the Salazar Lab.

March 1-4, 2021
Dr. Vera-Licona and Lauren will be at the INCOME 2021 Conference

January 9-10, 2021
Lauren will present a poster at the ASPA Northeast Regional Conference

May 15, 2020
Maddie successfully defended her honors thesis entitled A Quantitative Pipeline For The Identification of Combinations of Targets for Claudin-Low Triple Negative Breast Cancer Reversion. Congratulations Maddie!

December 11, 2020
Dr. Vera-Licona will give a talk entitled A dynamical systems and control theory approach to cell reprogramming at the 9th Institute for Systems Genomics networking workshop.

December 3-4, 2020
Lauren will present a poster at the (Computational Genomics and Systems Biology Symposium )

July 14, 2020
Dr. Vera-Licona will deliver invited talk at the (Center for Reproducible Biomedical Modeling Seminar, Virtual)