Fran Supek
Professor
In the Genome Data Science lab, we use statistical genomics and machine learning to study quality control (QC) mechanisms that protect the integrity of information stored in the cell: its genome and the transcriptome, as well as gene functional links.
We perform large-scale bioinformatic studies of multi-omic data from human tumors (somatic mutations, and transcriptomes), human populations (germline variation) and metagenomes (incl. human microbiomes).
Read more on the lab webpage at https://www.genomedatalab.org/
Fields of interest
We study mechanisms of maintaining genome stability in human cells via statistical analyses of mutation patterns in cancer, which often result from deficient DNA repair [ 1 ]. Next, we are interested in how mRNA synthesis and turnover pathways shape genomes and transcriptomes in health and disease [ 2 ]. Finally, we combine experimental work and genomics to scan cancer genomes for genetic interactions to predict tumor evolution and identify novel synthetic lethalities [ 3 ]. More generally, we study novel approaches using machine learning to infer gene function from massive genomic data [ 4 ].
Primary fields of research
- cancer genomics and evolution
- applied AI to bioinformatics and genomics
- DNA repair in context of chromatin
- mutagenesis, genome instability
- population genomics, disease risk prediction
- gene function, synthetic lethality
- transcriptomics (NMD, splicing)
- bioinformatics of long-read sequencing
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