Lab members

Michael I. Love (he/him/his)
Associate Professor - Genetics and Biostatistics at UNC-Chapel Hill

Email: michaelisaiahlove [at] gmail

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Name	Research topics	Position
Michael Love @mikelove	Statistical software for genomic data analysis; Causal mechanisms for GWAS loci; Uncertainty propagation in differential analysis	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
Wancen Mu @wancenm	Allelic imbalance in scRNA-seq: airpart; Bootstrap enrichment analysis: nullranges	PhD candidate
Ji-Eun Park @JiEunPark	Mutational signatures and risk factors in cancer; Co-supervised with Di Wu	PhD candidate
Rachel Sharp @rrsharp122	Molecular mechanisms of GWAS variants associated with neuropsychiatric traits; Co-supervised with Hyejung Won	PhD candidate
Yuriko Harigaya	Statistical methods for response QTL Co-supervised with William Valdar	PhD candidate

Alumni

Name	Research topic	Current position
Sarah Reifeis @sarah_reifeis	Exposure effects with confounding	Eli Lilly
Scott Van Buren	scRNA-seq quantification uncertainty	Harvard FAS Informatics
Arjun Bhattacharya @bhattac_a_bt	TWAS for breast cancer outcomes; Multi-omic strategies in TWAS: MOSTWAS; Compressed sensing for deconvolution: DeCompress	Postdoc in Pasaniuc lab
Sean McCabe @SeanMcCabeBIOS	Multi-omics visualization: movie; LDA of isoforms: actor	Postdoc in Lin lab
Anqi Zhu @anqiz91	Differential analysis in RNA-seq; Developed apeglm, swish, mrlocus	Genentech

Name	Research topic	Current position	~~~~~~~~~~
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.

Name	Research topic	Current position
Achal Patel	Breast cancer TWAS	Troester lab member
Amanda Tapia	Colocalization of QTL and GWAS	Li lab member
Joshua Zitovsky	Fast implementation of apeglm for allelic expression ratios	Kosorok lab member

(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	Monash University