News
2025
Participate in a User Study: Search Engine for Genome-Mapped Visualizations
12 August 2025 | We're looking for genomics researchers to participate in a user study of a new search engine designed for genome-mapped data visualizations. More ...
Talks, posters, and tutorial at ISMB@2025
14 July 2025 | Come see our various works at ISMB in Liverpool! More ...
Beyond Time and Accuracy paper accepted for CHI2025!
11 March 2025 | In-lab study of eye tracking to understand how people read visualizations. More ...
VUES on Spatial Biology
7 March 2025 | This Tuesday (11 March 2025), we are hosting a seminar at Harvard Medical School on the Future of 3D Tissue Maps More ...
2024
2023
2022
Viv Paper Published in Nature Methods
11 May 2022 | Our paper about Viv was published in Nature Methods. More ...
2021
Prestigeous Scholarship
15 April 2021 | Goldwater Scholarship awarded to lab alumni Karan Luthria! More ...
2020
Open Source Software Contributions
1 November 2020 | Lab members contribute to multiple open source software projects. More ...
Best Poster and Best Paper Honorable Mention at IEEE VIS
20 October 2020 | Congratulations to Aditeya Pandey and Sehi L'Yi for Best Poster, and to Fritz Lekschas for Best Paper honorable mention More ...
New EHR, Genomics, and Imaging Data Visualization Postdoc Positions!
7 October 2020 | The lab is hiring multiple postdoctoral fellows for EHR, genomics, and imaging data visualization to work as part of international consortia. More ...
Workshop on User-Centered Design in Computational Biology Research
6 October 2020 | Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2021 will feature a workshop on using user-centered design approaches to build computational biology tools. More ...
First Data Release of HuBMAP
1 September 2020 | The NIH-funded Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) published its first data release. More ...
Viv Image Visualization Library Preprint Released
13 August 2020 | We created a novel solution to directly visualize OME-TIFF files and Bio-Formats-compatible Zarr stores containing highly multiplexed, high-bit depth, and high-resolution image data in the browser. More ...
2019
IEEE VIS 2019 Best Short Paper Award for Periphery Plots
22 October 2019 | The paper introducing the "periphery plot" technique for contextualizing time-series data has won the inaugural Best Short Paper Award at the IEEE VIS Conference 2019. More ...
Papers, Posters, and Presentations at IEEE VIS 2019
19 October 2019 | Several projects from the lab will be featured in publications, presentations, and posters at IEEE VIS 2019. More ...
HuBMAP Marker Paper Published in Nature
9 October 2019 | The HuBMAP Consortium published a roadmap for building a map of the human body at the cellular and molecular level. More ...
New postdoc, data curator, and software engineering positions open
22 July 2019 | The lab is hiring multiple postdoctoral fellows for single-cell, nucleomics, and cancer epigenomics data visualization, as well as a senior data curator, and a software engineer. More ...
Welcome to Claudia Meyer, Justine Shih, Mark Keller, and Thomas Chan!
10 June 2019 | Four undergraduate summer interns joining the lab in June 2019. More ...
Welcome to Drashko Nakikj!
1 April 2019 | We are excited to have new postdoc join the lab to work on our clinical data visualization efforts. More ...
2018
Lab Alumna Alaleh Azhir awarded Rhodes Scholarship
18 November 2018 | Former lab member Alaleh Azhir was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and will be studying at Oxford University in 2019 More ...
Gehlenborg Lab joins NIH HuBMAP
26 September 2018 | Nils and colleagues will lead creation of informatics tools for major NIH effort to assemble a molecular atlas of human tissues. More ...
HiGlass Published in Genome Biology
29 August 2018 | An article describing our HiGlass genome data visualization tool has been published in Genome Biology. More ...
EMBL John Kendrew Award
20 July 2018 | Nils receives the John Kendrew Award and presents a talk at EMBL Lab Day. More ...
Gehlenborg Lab will present five talks at ISMB 2018
5 July 2018 | The Gehlenborg Lab will be presenting five talks at ISMB 2018 in Chicago. More ...
Welcome to Trevor Manz, Angela Chen, and Lina Chi!
15 June 2018 | New team members and visitors joined the lab in June 2018. More ...
Danielle Nguyen, Sabrina Nusrat, and Theresa Harbig Joining the Lab
29 January 2018 | Three talented new team members joined the Gehlenborg Lab in January 2018 More ...
2017
Visualizing Genealogies and Multivariate Clinical Data
19 April 2017 | Lineage is a web-based visualization tool for the analysis of clinical data in the context of genealogical graphs. More ...
HiPiler Preprint on the bioRxiv
3 April 2017 | HiPiler is interactive visualization interface for the exploration and visualization of regions-of-interest such as loops in large genome interaction maps. More ...
HiGlass Released and Preprint Posted
31 March 2017 | HiGlass is a web-based exploration tool for Hi-C and other genomic interaction maps that provides multi-scale and comparative visualizations. More ...
UpSetR Preprint Posted
25 March 2017 | UpSetR is an open source R package that employs a scalable matrix-based visualization of sets. More ...