THE MANGUL LAB AT USC
We design, develop, and apply novel data-driven, computational approaches that accelerate the diffusion of genomics and biomedical data into translational research and education.
Lab news!
Welcome Angela back to Mangul Lab as PhD student
In May 2020, Angela officially joins Mangul Lab at USC as a PhD student co-advised by Serghei Mangul and Stan Louie. During her first year in the Pharmaceutical & Translational Sciences (PHTS) Program, Angela completed one rotation in Mangul Lab. Angela’s long-term career goal is to work in the biotechnology [...]
Mangul Lab submits preprint of a WGS-based structural variant callers benchmarking study
Mangul Lab at USC shared a new preprint which presents a benchmarking study of structural variant (SV) callers – computational tools for identifying genomic regions that have altered DNA and may be implicated in various diseases and disorders. Varuni Sarwal, alumnus of Serghei’s group at UCLA, is the first [...]
Welcome Kerui back to Mangul Lab as PhD student
In May 2020, Kerui officially joins Mangul Lab at USC as a PhD student co-advised by Serghei Mangul and Houda Alachkar. During her first year in the Pharmaceutical & Translational Sciences (PHTS) Program, Kerui completed two doctoral rotations in Mangul Lab—first, learning how to use computational skills to handle big [...]
Mangul Lab at USC welcomes Sharon Waymost
This spring, Mangul Lab welcomes a new member to our group! Sharon Waymost is joining us as a graduate student working towards her Master of Science degree in Computer Science at UCLA. Sharon first worked with Serghei in Eleazar Eskin’s lab in the Department of Computer Science at UCLA back [...]
Mangul Lab pens commentary piece on conference travel for junior scientists in the wake of climate change
Mangul Lab at USC shared a new preprint of 2020 which presents a conversational editorial on the difficult choices that junior scholars face when choosing to travel via airplane to scientific conferences. With the ever-increasing carbon footprint associated with conferences, scientists can learn to refine their conference experiences when [...]
Mangul Lab publishes third paper – an analysis of microbial reference databases
Today we celebrate the publication of our third peer-reviewed paper since Mangul Lab launched at USC! Consensus of fungal and bacterial genome representation across multiple reference databases. Cailtin Loeffler and Aaron Karlsberg, both alumnus of Serghei’s group at UCLA and currently scientific research staff with Mangul Lab [...]