Lab members

Michael I. Love (he/him/his)
Associate Professor - Genetics and Biostatistics at UNC-Chapel Hill
Associate Director - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) PhD program

Email: michaelisaiahlove [at] gmail / love [at] unc.edu

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Name	Research topics	Position
Michael Love	Statistical software for genomic data analysis; Causal mechanisms for GWAS loci	PI
Jon Rosen	Functional interrogation of GWAS variants; Variant selection and MPRA analysis within IGVF; Gen. Epi. of HLB Traits, Karen Mohlke lab	Post-doctoral
Euphy Wu @FennecPaaaw	Isoform-level allelic imbalance: SEESAW; Co-supervised with Naim Rashid	PhD candidate
Ji-Eun Park @JiEunPark	Mutational signatures and risk factors in cancer; Co-supervised with Di Wu	PhD candidate
Rachel Sharp @rrsharp122	Neuropsychiatric GWAS variants, GxE	PhD candidate
Yuriko Harigaya	Statistical methods for response QTL Co-supervised with William Valdar	PhD candidate
Justin Landis	Long-read RNA-seq methods	Rotation student

Alumni

Name	Research topic	Current position
Wancen Mu @wancenm	Allelic imbalance in scRNA-seq: airpart; Bootstrap enrichment analysis: nullranges; Gaussian processes for multi-omic time series; Predictive modeling of gRNA efficiency
Sarah Reifeis @sarah_reifeis	Exposure effects with confounding	Eli Lilly
Scott Van Buren	scRNA-seq quantification uncertainty	Harvard FAS Informatics
Achal Patel @pateap07	Breast cancer TWAS	Genentech
Arjun Bhattacharya @bhattac_a_bt	TWAS for breast cancer outcomes; Multi-omic strategies in TWAS: MOSTWAS; Compressed sensing for deconvolution: DeCompress	Assist. Prof., MD Anderson
Sean McCabe @SeanMcCabeBIOS	Multi-omics visualization: movie; LDA of isoforms: actor	Assist. Prof., Indiana Univ.
Anqi Zhu @anqiz91	Differential analysis in RNA-seq; Developed apeglm, swish, mrlocus	Genentech

Name	Research topic	Current position
Isabella Gamez	Bacterial RNA-seq - Rita Tamayo lab	NIEHS post-bac
Kwame Forbes @kwame_forbes	Integration of single cell expression data for exploration of bulk DE analysis	UNC BCB
Alexandre Lockhart	Identification of mutational signatures via targeted sequencing	Rho Inc.

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Amanda Tapia	Colocalization of QTL and GWAS
Joshua Zitovsky	Fast implementation of apeglm for allelic expression ratios

(Current or former students from other labs that have contributed to Love Lab research)

Name	Research topic	School (lab)
Anna A. Monaco @AnnaAMonaco	Molecular Biology/Genetics/Evo-Devo	Robert Zinzen (Berlin)
Noor P. Singh @pratapnoor	Statistical methods for RNA-seq	UMD (Patro)
Dongze He @dongzehe	Single-cell RNA-seq	UMD (Patro)
Avi Srivastava @k3yavi	Fast mapping, scRNA-seq quant.	SBU (Patro)
Hirak Sarkar @hiraksarkar	Selective alignment, scRNA-seq simulation, transcript grouping	UMD (Patro)
Stuart Lee @_stuartlee	Human-centred data science, tidy range operations	Melbourne