Current Students

• Jumanah Alshenaifi
  

  jyalshenaifi@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Scott Kopetz, MD. PhD. & Andy Futreal, PhD.

  Colorectal cancer; genomics; multi-omics; tumor heterogeneity and evolution

• Jiun-Sheng Chen
  

  Jiun-Sheng.Chen@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Dr. Chad Huff

  Statistical genetics;  Cancer genetics; Genetic epidemiology; NGS data analysis and pipeline development

• Medina Colic
  

  mcolic@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Traver Hart, PhD

  Functional genomics, Chemogenetic and Genetic interactions, Bayesian networks, CRISPR technology, Synthetic lethality

• Darlan Conterno Minussi
  

  dcminussi@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Nicholas Navin, PhD

• Cem Dede
  

  Cem.Dede@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Michelle Barton, PhD

  Bioinformatics;Genetic Screening;CRISPR/Cas9 Tiling-sgRNA Knockout Screen;TRIM24;Domain Essentiality

• Nazanin Esmaeili Anvar
  

  nesmaeili@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Traver Hart, PhD

  Genetic interaction, synthetic lethality, enCas12a

• Pujun Guan
  

  pujun.guan@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Dianna M. Milewicz, MD, PhD

  Translational Clinical Medical Research of Disease Diagnosis and Management

• Shuai Guo
  

  sguo3@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Wenyi Wang, PhD

  Tumor transcriptome deconvolution; single cell genomics; tumor heterogeneity

• Siyuan He
  

  She2@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Nick Navin, PhD

  Single cell genomics; Tumor heterogeneity; Cancer immunotherapy

• Licai Huang
  

  Licai.Huang@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Min Jin Ha, PhD & Kim-Anh Do, PhD

  Statistical genetics and genomics; Bayesian inference; Graphical model. 

• Ramiz Iqbal
  

  riqbal@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Ken Chen, PhD

  Machine learning, Decision support, Personalize medicine 

• Swaminathan Kumar
  

  skumar11@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Michael Davies, MD, PhD

  Cancer Genomics; Bioinformatics; Immunogenomics; Statistical Genetics 

• Tapsi Kumar
  

  tseth@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Nicholas Navin, PhD

  Single cell genomics, Tumor microenvironment, Spatial imaging, Breast cell atlas

• Yash Lagisetty
  

  Yashwanth.Lagisetty@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Edgar Walters, PhD & Olivier Lichtarge, MD, PhD

  Complex Genetic Diseases, AI, Machine Learning, Applied Math, Neuropsychiatric Diseases

• Olivia Lee
  

  owlee@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: John Weinstein, MD, PhD

  Cancer genomics; Cancer evolution; Genetic epidemiology
• Jake Leighton
  

  jleighton@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Nicholas Navin, PhD

  Single cell sequencing; Tumor heterogeneity; Tumor initiation; Tumor metastasis; Phylogenetics

• Frank Lenoir
  

  walter.lenoir@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Traver Hart, PhD

  Tumor suppressors; Genomics; Network analysis; Genetic fitness; Functional interactions

• Wenhao Li
  

  wenhao.li@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Liang Li, PhD

  Joint model of survival and longitudinal data analysis

• Yan Li
  

  Yan.Li.1@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Liang Li, PhD

  Propensity score weighting methods

• Yiyun Lin
  

  Yiyun.Lin@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Nicholas Navin, PhD

  Single cell genomics; Therapeutic resistance, Microenvironment interaction, Spatial genomics

• Na Liu
  

  Na.Liu@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: J. Jack Lee, PhD

• Mengyi Lu
  

  mlu9@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Ying Yuan, PhD

  Bayesian adaptive clinical trial design

• Chenjie Lyu
  

  Chenjie.Lyu@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Ken Chen, PhD

  single cell multimodal integration

• Xingdi Ma
  

  Xingdi.Ma@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Ronald DePinho, MD

  Single cell genomics, Computational biology/immunology

• Akash Mitra
  

  amitra2@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: P. Andrew Futreal, PhD

  Intratumor heterogeneity; Tumor evolution; Tumor microenvironment

• Zuhal Ozcan
  

  zozcan1@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Paul Scheet, PhD

  Cancer genomics; Allelic imbalance; Copy number variation; RNA-seq

• Alexandria Plumer
  

  Alexandria.Plumer@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Prahlad Ram, Ph.D.

• Naveen Ramesh
  

  Naveen.Ramesh@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Nicholas Navin, PhD

  Liquid biopsy; Cell-free DNA; Prostate cancer; Genome evolution; Bioinformatics

• Keith Sanders
  

  Keith.L.Sanders@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Clifton David Fuller, MD, PhD

  Quantitative Imaging; Machine learning; Big data; Personalized medicine 

• Aislyn Schalck
  

  aschalck@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Nicholas Navin, PhD

  Single cell genomics; immunogenomics; Radiogenomics; Tumor microenvironment; Tumor genomic heterogeneity; Tumor aneuploidy; TCR sequencing 

• Jonathan Schulz
  

  Jonathan.Schulz@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Kunal Rai, PhD

  Deep learning (AI); Big data; Epigenomics; Genomics; ChIP-seq; Single cell RNA-seq; Cancer; Dementia

• Sahil Seth
  

  sseth@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Giulio Draetta, MD, PhD

  Tumor heterogeneity, Cancer evolution, Functional heterogeneity, Tumor immune micro-environment

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