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Lab members
Nahed Jalloul is an NJCCR Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rutgers Cancer
Institute. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Rennes 1,
where she designed a system of acquisition and movement analysis for
detecting the presence of a major motor dysfunction in Parkinson’s
disease patients. As a postdoc, she developed a clinical trial protocol to
validate this system. Before joining Rutgers, Nahed was a
lecturer at the American University of Beirut. Her personal
interests include sports, and spending time with family and friends.
Amartya Singh is a Postdoctoral Fellow and a recent graduate of
the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers
University. He has developed a novel biclustering algorithm to
investigate the systems level biology of cancer and is currently
working on expanding his analysis to connect genomic and
epigenetic properties of tumors. During his graduate
studies he was co-advised by Prof. Gyan Bhanot.
Saman Zeeshan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers Cancer
Institute, working jointly with the lab of Dr. Sharon Pine. She received her Ph.D. in Bioinformatics with Magna cum
Laude from the University of Wuerzburg, Germany, and has conduced
postdoctoral research at the Jackson Laboratory, where she actively
participated in designing experiments and computational analyses on
understanding alternative splicing aberrations and identifying novel
signatures in high-grade cancers. She has been awarded the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Scholarship
from the European Union Masters Training Program and has hold various
distinguished positions throughout her academic career.
Amir Farmanbar is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers Cancer Institute.
received his Ph.D. in computational biology from The University of
Tokyo (東大, Tōdai). He is interested in developing computational
tools that help study cancer clonal
evolution and tumor heterogeneity. He enjoys watching and playing football
(soccer).
Jui Wan Loh is an NJCCR Pre-doctoral Fellow, a Shatkin Scholar,
and a recent recipient of a Ph.D. degree from the Graduate Program of
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Rutgers University. Her
research interests are in developing computational modeling approaches to study
cancer. She is particularly focused on investigating evolution of
leukemia in patients as well as animal models. She enjoys swimming and biking.
Vaidhyanathan Mahaganapathy is a Ph. D. candidate in the Microbiology
and Molecular Genetics graduate program at Rutgers University. He is
working on understanding genomic alteration in non-tumor cells that
are present in tumor microenvironment. Vaidhy took a special
interest in the field of computational biology while studying
Biotechnology towards his Bachelor’s degree. This motivated him to
pursue a Master’s degree in Bioinformatics, prior to joining
Rutgers. His research interests include, leveraging the advancements
in sequencing and computational genomics to better understand
diseases and disorders in humans. When not working, he likes to go
on long drives, take pictures, and play soccer.
Christopher Thai is a Ph.D. student in the Quantitative
Biomedicine program at Rutgers University. He had only recently
taken interest in health and medical applications of computer
science and statistics in his last year of working towards his
bachelor's in computer science at UCLA. He is now excited to
explore the world of genomics and computational biology. In his free
time, he likes to play video games, exercise, play music, and cook.
Srinivas Rajagopalan is a recent graduate of Rutgers University in Biomathematics.
He is currently a research assistant, planning to pursue a graduate degree in the field of computational
biology to study cancer genomics. In his free time, he enjoys
playing Spikeball (a unique cross of volleyball and Foursquare) and
long distance running, as well as solving problems in number theory.
Abdor Rahman Ahmed is a current undergraduate sophomore in the
Honors College of Rutgers University through the School of
Environmental and Biological Sciences. Additionally, Abdor Rahman is
a Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP)
scholar. His research interests include microbiology, biotechnology,
molecular biology, nanotechnology, and origami.
Alumni
Mohammad Hadigol was an NJCCR Postdoctoral Fellow focused on developing diagnostic pipelines using
calibrated deep-sequencing techniques. He is currently a scientist
at Merck and continues to contribute to the lab as a Visiting Scholar.
Lodovico Terzi was a Visiting Scholar at the Rutgers Cancer Institute
from Dr. Davide Rossi's laboratory at the Institute of Oncology Research in Bellinzona
(Switzerland). His current research is focused on studying
cancel cell adaptation and evolution in leukemia and lymphoma.
Theodora Katsarou is an undergraduate at Stony Brook University, and
was a 2019
DIMACS fellow. She is a pre-med double major in Applied
Mathematics and Biology and plans to pursue a masters degree in
Computational Biology before medical school.
Caitlin Guccione is a graduate student at University of California San Diego
and was a 2018
DIMACS fellow. She is now studying computer
science and computational biology.
Simon Bird is a graduate of the Honors College at Rutgers University
and was a 2017
DIMACS fellow. He is studying mathematics, and is pursuing a
graduate degree in applied mathematics.
Anthony Fratella-Calabrese is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of the Rutgers School
of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Anthony is now a medical student
at Rutgers NJMS.
Affiliations
We are affiliated with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the Molecular Biosciences Graduate Programs, the Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, and the Center for Quantitative Biology at Rutgers University.
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Hossein Khiabanian is an Associate Professor of Pathology in Medical
Informatics. He received his Ph.D. in
Physics from Brown University, where he studied galaxy clusters and
dark matter structures, using weak gravitational lensing. Prior to joining Rutgers,
Hossein was a member of the Departments of Systems Biology and Biomedical
Informatics at Columbia University. He is
a 
Ameen Jafferier obtained his M.S. in Biomedical Informatics and Bachelor of Science from Rutgers University. His
research in the lab was focused on implementing informatics approaches for interpreting clinical
sequencing data.
Tim Hedspeth is an undergraduate at Emmanuel College in Boston, MA,
and a