Teaching
Courses #
Current courses:
- BIOS 784 / BCB 784 - Introduction to Computational Biology
- Fall 2026, Tue/Thur 12:30-1:45, Aug 17 – Dec 11
- BCB 724 - Data Communication
- Fall 2026, Tue/Thur 2:00-3:15, Nov 3 – Dec 3
Previous courses:
- BIOS 735 - Introduction to Statistical Computing, Last taught: Spring 2019 (co-taught with Dr. Naim Rashid)
Mentorship #
Below is information for students interested in mentorship or joining the lab.
Information by student category #
- Prospective PhD students: please apply through BBSP or the Biostatistics department (see links below). You can mention your interest in the Love lab in your application; we do not need to meet beforehand for you to express interest in the lab. I generally will not reply to emails about joining the lab from prospective students.
- Current UNC graduate students: you are welcome to email me about rotations, courses, etc.
- UNC undergraduates: spots in the lab are limited, but some years I have capacity to supervise honors theses.
- Visiting graduate students from outside UNC: these are considered case-by-case.
- High school students and undergraduates from other universities: unfortunately I cannot provide mentorship to high school students or undergraduate students from other universities.
Graduate programs at UNC #
I am part of the leadership of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) PhD program within the Biological & Biomedical Sciences Program (BBSP) in the School of Medicine of UNC-Chapel Hill. Note that there is not direct application or admittance into labs/programs: “Students are admitted into the BBSP for the first year of graduate study. During this year you are free to explore departments, programs, labs and courses before committing to a specific thesis lab or PhD program.”
Links about BCB and BBSP:
Basic questions about the BCB and BBSP programs are likely answered in the informational links above. I may not reply to emails unless they are about information not present in these links.
I am also a faculty in the Biostatistics Department at the Gillings School of Public Health:
Online books and tutorials #
- Statistical Modeling of High Dimensional Counts (online mini-book)
- Published as a chapter: Methods Mol Biol. 2021:2284:97-134
- Data Analysis for the Life Sciences by Rafael A. Irizarry and Michael I. Love
- Tidy ranges tutorial (online mini-book)
- part of Tidyomics Project