Adjunct faculty typically have an academic or research appointment at another institution and contribute or collaborate with one or more School of Medicine faculty members or programs.
Adjunct rank detailsMercedeh Javanbakht Movassagh
Assistant Professor AdjunctAbout
Research
Overview
Detailed expertise and methods development:
Development of computational and statistical methods for genetics, infectious disease genomics and sequencing data analysis (mirTarRnaSeq, mbQTL, VDJdive, RNA2DNAlign and PathSeeker).
Machine learning (Random Forest, SVMs, Topic Models, Clustering, Elastic Nets, Regressions, etc).
Next generation sequencing (NGS) analysis (RNA, microRNA (miRNA), whole genome sequencing (WGS), microbiome sequencing (16s rRNA), T cell receptor (TCR) single cell sequencing, exome and transcriptome sequencing.
Population genetics and ancestry analysis for WGS.
Genome wide association studies (GWAS).
Scalable processing of sparse sequencing data such as microbiome data.
Detailed Research interests:
Infectious disease (microbial, viral, parasitic and fungal), neonatal sepsis, hydrocephalus, RNAs and ncRNAs, computational biology, metagenomics, genetics, single nucleotide variants, mutations, cancer, whole genome sequencing, bioinformatics and biostatistics, machine learning, tropical medicine, global public health, and pathogenic cancers such as Burkitt Lymphoma, and interplay of host and human microbiome.