News Archive - Enes Kemal Ergin

2026

[Dec 2025] Submitted third paper, ProteoForge, to bioRxiv; currently under revision for the Journal of Proteome Research. bioRxiv preprint
[Jun 2025] Stayed at the Lange Lab as a Staff Bioinformatician to continue proteomics research and ongoing projects.
[May 2025] PhD thesis indexed on Google Scholar
[Apr 2025] Fifth co-authored paper (for PROFYLE) by Barnabas et al. published in EMBO Molecular Medicine.
[Apr 2025] Successfully defended PhD dissertation without revisions; thesis deposited to UBC Library.

[Nov 2024] Attended CNPN 2024 in Whistler, BC.
[Jul 2024] Fifth co-authored paper by Barnabas and Bhat (PROFYLE) submitted to bioRxiv. (Published Apr 2025 in EMBO Molecular Medicine.)
[Jun 2024] Received approval to write and defend PhD thesis.
[May 2024] Published second first-authored paper on QuEStVar in the Journal of Proteome Research.

[Nov 2023] Fourth co-authored paper, led by Dr. Amanda Lorentzian, published in Nature Communications .
[Jul 2023] Led a workshop on common downstream proteomics analysis pipelines using R for the Trainee Omics Group (TOG) at BCCHR.
[Jun 2023] Gave a talk on QuEStVar and stable proteomes in cancer cell lines at BCCHR's Trainee Omics Group (TOG).
[May 2023] Received a student travel award at CNPN 2023 in Regina, SK.
[May 2023] Gave a trainee talk on InPACCT and presented two posters at CNPN 2023 in Regina, SK.
[Mar 2023] Presented a poster at BIG 2023 Research Day.
[Jan 2023] Fourth co-authored paper, led by Dr. Amanda Lorentzian, posted to MedRxiv as a preprint. (Published in Nature Communications, Nov 2023.)

[Sep 2022] Published first full-authored manuscript, SQuAPP, in Oxford Bioinformatics.
[May 2022] Supervised first co-op student over the following eight months.

[Dec 2021] Co-authored second proteomics paper, published in the Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research.
[Sep 2021] Passed comprehensive exam and advanced to PhD candidacy.

[Aug 2020] Took a leave of absence from PhD.
[May 2020] Presented on normalization techniques for proteomics data to the Trainee Omics Group (TOG) at BCCHR.

[Nov 2019] Co-authored first proteomics paper, published in Molecular & Cellular Proteomics.
[May 2019] Received the Four Year Doctoral Fellowship (4YF) for PhD funding.
[Apr 2019] Transferred from Masters to PhD in the UBC Bioinformatics Graduate Program.

[May 2018] Attended first proteomics conference, CNPN 2018, in Vancouver, BC.
[May 2018] Received the Michael Cuccione Childhood Cancer Foundation Graduate Studentship.
[Apr 2018] Presented a class project poster at STAT Day 2018 at UBC.

[Sep 2017] Began graduate studies in the Lange Lab at BC Children's Hospital Research Institute.
[Sep 2017] Enrolled in Special Topics in Bioinformatics at UBC.
[Jun 2017] Relocated from the U.S. to Canada.
[May 2017] Graduated with Distinction from the Computer Science Department at NAU.
[May 2017] Accepted into the Bioinformatics Masters program at UBC.