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2026-01-22
"Catch-Up Weight Gain and Gut Microbiota Development in Full-Term Small for Gestational Age Children During the First Year of Life - A Prospective Cohort Study" - in American Journal of Human Biology
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2025-12-29
"Transformer-Based Classification of Transposable Element Consensus Sequences with TEclass2" has been published in MDPI Biology.
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2025-08-24
"The Synchrony of STARD4-AS1 and H19 Downregulation with Cardiomyocytes Cell Cycle Arrest" has been published by Biology of the Cell.
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2025-08-06
"Prognostic marker Musashi-2 modulates DNA damage response and radioresistance in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma" has been published by Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology.
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2025-06-18
"Evaluating the Effectiveness of Various Small RNA Alignment Techniques in Transcriptomic Analysis by Examining Different Sources of Variability Through a Multi-Alignment Approach" has been published by Methods and Protocols Journal.
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2025-03-21
"Musashi inhibitor Ro 08-2750 attenuates triple-negative breast cancer cell proliferation and migration and acts as a novel chemo- and radiosensitizer" has been published by Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy.
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2024-12-31
"Development of a new data management system for the study of the gut microbiome of children who are small for their gestational age" has been published by Computational and Structural Biotechnology.
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2024-12-30
"Animal and vegetal materials of mouse oocytes segregate at first zygotic cleavage: a simple mechanism that makes the 2-cell blastomeres differ reciprocally from the start" has been published by Molecular Human Reproduction.
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2024-11-04
"miR-193b-5p and miR-374b-5p Are Aberrantly Expressed in Endometriosis and Suppress Endometrial Cell Migration In Vitro" has been published in Biomolecules.
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2024-06-07
"Interplay of miR-542, miR-126, miR-143 and miR-26b with PI3K-Akt is a Diagnostic Signal and Putative Regulatory Target in HPV-Positive Cervical Cancer" has been published by Biochemical Genetics.
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2024-02
"NewickTreeModifier: a simple web page to prune and modify Newick trees" has been published in Journal of Heredity.
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2023-08-28
"The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome" by T2T Consortium has been published by Nature.
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Reza Halabian, Ph.D.
Reza Halabian
StatusPostdoctoral researcher
E-mailreza.halabian[at]uni-muenster.de
reza.halabian[at]ukmuenster.de
Room110.005
Phone+49 251 8353002
Research Interests
  • Single-cell and spatial multimodal informatics
  • Detection of somatic structural variants using single-molecule sequencing data
  • Medical genomics
  • Immunoinformatics
  • Clonal evolution analysis in cancer
  • Translational bioinformatics
  • Genome assembly and annotation
Education
Postdoctoral projects
  • Current Project: Benchmarking computational approaches for spatial omics data analysis.
  • Completed: Computational and Biological Insights into Sperm Entry Site Effects on Mice Blastomere Totipotency Using Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data.
Ph.D. Project
  • In Silico Discovery of DNA Transductions Rendered by Non-LTR Retroelements Across the Human Genomes.
Publications
  • Nolte, T.; Halabian, R.; Israel, S.; Suzuki, Y.; Avelar, R. A.; Palmer, D.; Fuellen, G.; Makalowski, W.; Boiani, M., Animal and vegetal materials of mouse oocytes segregate at first zygotic cleavage: a simple mechanism that makes the two-cell blastomeres differ reciprocally from the start. Molecular Human Reproduction 2024, 31 (1). doi: 10.1093/molehr/gaae045.
  • Halabian, R.; Storer, J. M.; Hoyt, S. J.; Hartley, G. A.; Brosius, J.; O’Neill, R. J.; Makałowski, W., Exploring Alu-Driven DNA Transductions in the Primate Genomes. bioRxiv 2024, 2024.04.29.591526. doi: 10.1101/2024.04.29.591526. (Under review at Genome Biology)
  • Rhie, A.; Nurk, S.; Cechova, M.; Hoyt, S. J.; Taylor, D. J.; Altemose, N.; Hook, P. W.; Koren, S.; Rautiainen, M.; Alexandrov, I. A.; Allen, J.; Asri, M.; Bzikadze, A. V.; Chen, N.-C.; Chin, C.-S.; Diekhans, M.; Flicek, P.; Formenti, G.; Fungtammasan, A.; Garcia Giron, C.; Garrison, E.; Gershman, A.; Gerton, J. L.; Grady, P. G. S.; Guarracino, A.; Haggerty, L.; Halabian, R.; Hansen, N. F.; Harris, R.; Hartley, G. A.; Harvey, W. T.; Haukness, M.; Heinz, J.; Hourlier, T.; Hubley, R. M.; Hunt, S. E.; Hwang, S.; Jain, M.; Kesharwani, R. K.; Lewis, A. P.; Li, H.; Logsdon, G. A.; Lucas, J. K.; Makalowski, W.; Markovic, C.; Martin, F. J.; Mc Cartney, A. M.; McCoy, R. C.; McDaniel, J.; McNulty, B. M.; Medvedev, P.; Mikheenko, A.; Munson, K. M.; Murphy, T. D.; Olsen, H. E.; Olson, N. D.; Paulin, L. F.; Porubsky, D.; Potapova, T.; Ryabov, F.; Salzberg, S. L.; Sauria, M. E. G.; Sedlazeck, F. J.; Shafin, K.; Shepelev, V. A.; Shumate, A.; Storer, J. M.; Surapaneni, L.; Taravella Oill, A. M.; Thibaud-Nissen, F.; Timp, W.; Tomaszkiewicz, M.; Vollger, M. R.; Walenz, B. P.; Watwood, A. C.; Weissensteiner, M. H.; Wenger, A. M.; Wilson, M. A.; Zarate, S.; Zhu, Y.; Zook, J. M.; Eichler, E. E.; O’Neill, R. J.; Schatz, M. C.; Miga, K. H.; Makova, K. D.; Phillippy, A. M., The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome. Nature 2023. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06457-y
  • Halabian R, Makałowski W. A Map of 3′ DNA Transduction Variants Mediated by Non-LTR Retroelements on 3202 Human Genomes. Biology. 2022; 11(7):1032.doi: 10.3390/biology11071032
  • Hoyt SJ, Storer JM, Hartley GA, Grady PGS, Gershman A, de Lima LG, Limouse C, Halabian R, Wojenski L, Rodriguez M, Altemose N, Rhie A, Core LJ, Gerton JL, Makalowski W, Olson D, Rosen J, Smit AFA, Straight AF, Vollger MR, Wheeler TJ, Schatz MC, Eichler EE, Phillippy AM, Timp W, Miga KH, O''Neill RJ. From telomere to telomere: The transcriptional and epigenetic state of human repeat elements. Science. 2022 Apr;376(6588):eabk3112. doi: 10.1126/science.abk3112
  • Bohn, J.; Halabian, R.; Schrader, L.; Shabardina, V.; Steffen, R.; Suzuki, Y.; Ernst, U. R.; Gadau, J.; Makałowski, W., Genome assembly and annotation of the California harvester ant Pogonomyrmex californicus. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics 2020, 11 (1) doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkaa019
Teachings
  • 2018-2022 (winter semesters): Bioinformatics 1 practicals course, Instructor, University of Münster, Germany
Conferences and Workshops
  • July 3-6, 2023: Participation in the course of 14th Poznan summer school of bioinformatics with the topic of the analysis of single-cell data, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
  • November 3-5, 2021: Virtual Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) conference on genome informatics. Participant with a poster, Title: DNA transductions mediated by non-LTR retroelements in the complete human genome (T2T-CHM13), Reza Halabian et al.
  • October 6-9, 2020: Virtual Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) conference on transposable elements. Participant with a poster, Title: Frequent polymorphic DNA transductions in human populations, Reza Halabian and Wojciech Makalowski.
  • September 4-8, 2017: Participation in the course of 12th Poznan summer school of bioinformatics with the topic of NGS in medical research, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
  • 2007, November: 5th national conference of biotechnology. Participant with an oral presentation, Title: Detection SNPs of Bovine Prolactin Gene, Tehran, Iran.
  • 2006.09.12-24: Coursework training (2 weeks) in Bioinformatics for MD simulation, CinnaGen, Tehran, Iran.
  • 2006.10.12-24: Coursework training (2 weeks) in PCR for Diagnosis: Design of Laboratory, Real Time PCR, Diagnosis for HIV. CinnaGene, Tehran, Iran.
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