Trainees and Postdoctoral Fellows

PhD, Bioengineering, University of Missouri-Columbia

Research focus: applying statistical and machine learning methods to large-scale datasets of biological information; identifying causal relationships between regulatory molecules and specific biological processes to develop more targeted and effective treatments for a wide range of diseases and conditions

Junior, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Vanderbilt University

Mentor: Simon Vandekar

Gadiyar is utilizing biostatistical models to procure spatial-marker bivariate data and using this data to analyze niche cell-to-cell interactions within cancer data sets. He is also assisting with meta-analysis on the necessity of excitatory cues when performing rTMS treatment. He presented the poster "Evaluation of Spatial Statistics Methods in Multiplexed Immunoflorescence Images of Ovarian Cancer" at ENAR 2024.

PhD candidate, Statistics, National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan)

Research interests include: survival analysis, medical research, biostatistics, statistical consulting

PhD, Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), University of Malaya

Primary appointment: Senior Lecturer, Bayero University, Kano

Research interests include: artificial intelligence in healthcare, soft computing, decision support systems, evolutionary algorithms, intelligent agents

PhD, Bioinformatics, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Technology University

Jia Li's work at Vanderbilt has included "Tuft cell heterogeneity in function, lineage, and structure in ideal inflammatory disease," "Combinatorial single-cell strategies for a Crohn's disease gut cell atlas," and "Mechanistic insights into histone deacetylase inhibition for the treatment of retinoblastoma."

Publications include "scMRMA: Single cell multiresolution marker-based annotation" (Nucleic Acids Research 2022)

Winner of the Best Poster award in the department's 20th anniversary poster session for "Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics clustering with an optimized adaptive k-nearest neighbor graph"

PhD, Epidemiology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Primary appointment: Project Coordinator and Researcher, Africa Center for Excellence for Population Health Policy, Bayero University, Kano

Research interests include: infectious diseases, health systems, health equity, global health, evidence-informed decision-making