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2024
Justin Su August 28, 2024
Mangul Lab Presents at 8th Annual Conference of the Metagenomics and Metadesign of Subways and Urban Biomes (MetaSUB) International Consortium
On August 14, Justin presented a talk at the 8th Annual Conference of the Metagenomics and Metadesign of Subways and Urban Biomes (MetaSUB) International Consortium in Tokyo, Japan.
Nitesh Kumar Sharma, Mohammed Alser, and Karishma Chhugani also showcased a digital poster (Poster 8, Page 13) to ign…
Mangul Lab Highlights from Moving Targets 2024
Ella Schwab August 27, 2024
Mangul Lab Highlights from Moving Targets 2024
Our lab members Dhrithi Deshpande and Ella Schwab played key roles in organizing this year’s USC Chapter of AAPS-Led Conference, Moving Targets. With support from one of the Moving Targets faculty advisors Dr. Serghei Mangul, their efforts were essential to the event’s success, especially in attracting excellent speakers from both industry and academia. The conference theme, Computational Data-Driven Drug Discovery and Development, focused o…
Presenting at RECOMB 2024 Conference and Satellite Events
Karishma Chhugani June 12, 2024
Presenting at RECOMB 2024 Conference and Satellite Events
We are thrilled to announce that our lab results were selected for presentation as posters and talks at both the RECOMB 2024 conference and satellite events. RECOMB 2024 is the 28th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, aiming to present how computational and mathematical fields can solve problems in biological science. It was a great opportunity to share our findings and network with peers, …
Serghei Appointed as Mentor for NCATS Training Program
Karishma Chhugani May 13, 2024
Serghei Appointed as Mentor for NCATS Training Program
We are delighted to announce that Serghei has been appointed as a Mentor for the NCATS (National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences)…
Advancing Immune Phenotyping with USC Zumberge Grant
Karishma Chhugani May 10, 2024
Advancing Immune Phenotyping with USC Zumberge Grant
We are thrilled to announce that our proposal, “Developing reliable and scalable methods for deep immune phenotyping in public transcriptomics …
Karishma Chhugani April 29, 2024
Presenting “Benchmarking of machine learning algorithms to predict mortality in sepsis from transcriptomic data” talk at the ShowCAIS 2024 at USC Center for AI in Society”
On April 19…
Dottie Yu April 27, 2024
My journey to medical school
My name is Dottie, I graduated from USC in 2023 with a bachelors in Quantitative Biology. Very excited to share that I will be starting medical school at …
Mina Jung April 27, 2024
Reflecting on the URAP Experience and Presentation at the 2024 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work
On April 17, 2024, I attended the annual Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarl…
Yu Ning Huang April 17, 2024
CET teaching fellow
I am delighted to share some exciting news with all of you: I have been nominated by the esteemed Dean, Dr. Vassilios Papadopoulos, for the USC Center of Excellenc…
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS: 2024-2025 USC URAP FELLOW!
Grigore Boldirev April 15, 2024
Now recruiting: 2024-2025 USC URAP Fellow!
We are actively accepting applications from current USC undergraduate students to fill the position for the USC Undergraduate Research Associates Program…
Congratulations to Abdullah on acceptance into USC PHTS Graduate Program!
Serghei Mangul April 13, 2024
Congratulations to Abdullah on his acceptance into USC PHTS Graduate Program!
Congratulations to Abdullah Al Nahid on his acceptance into the prestigious Pharmaceutical and Translatio…
Congratulations to Seungmo on acceptance into UCLA CS Graduate Program!
Serghei Mangul April 05, 2024
Congratulations to Seungmo on acceptance into UCLA CS Graduate Program!
Seungmo Lee, previously an undergraduate researcher in Mangul Lab and ZarLab, has been accepted into UCLA’s Com…
Congratulations to Ryan on acceptance into the Georgia State University Graduate Program!
Serghei Mangul April 01, 2024
Congratulations to Ryan on acceptance into the Georgia State University Graduate Program!
Ryan Alomair, who was previously an undergraduate researcher in the lab, has been accepted in…
Niko Darci-Maher March 25, 2024
Choosing a major
As a freshman at UCLA with my major undeclared, I felt that it was impossible to choose between my conflicting interests. I liked physics in high school, and I wanted to learn to …
The Mangul lab presented at 2nd Drug Discovery Workshop at USC
Mina Jung March 19, 2024
The Mangul lab presented at 2nd Drug Discovery Workshop at USC
Mina Jung, Sanskruti Sharma, Justin Su, and Mohammad Vahed attended the 2nd Drug Discovery Innovation Workshop, hosted by CNT3D (Cent…
Celebrating Aditya Sarkar’s Admission to the University of Maryland Graduate Program!
Sanskruti Sharma February 22, 2024
Celebrating Aditya Sarkar’s Admission to the University of Maryland Graduate Program!
Congratulations to Aditya Sarkar (Undergraduate Researcher in our lab) on being accepted to the University of …
Congratulations to Dottie Yu on her acceptance to the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine!
Timur Suhodolschi February 20, 2024
Congratulations to Dottie Yu on her acceptance to the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine!
We extend a heartfelt congratulations to Dottie Yu on her acceptance to her top choice medical sc…
NOW RECRUITING: 2024-2025 NSF-funded UNDERGRADUATE STEM INTERN!
Grigore Boldirev February 05, 2024
NOW RECRUITING: 2024-2025 NSF-funded UNDERGRADUATE STEM INTERN!
We are actively accepting applications from current undergraduate STEM students to fill the position of an Undergraduate Researcher …
Mangul Lab Presents at Microbes in Wastewater 2024
Justin Su January 21, 2024
Mangul Lab Presents at Microbes in Wastewater 2024
On January 18 and 19, Justin attended the Microbes in Wastewater: Molecular Approaches in Pathogen & Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Surveilla…
Congratulations to Henry on his Acceptance into the USYD Doctoral Programe!
Henry Xu January 08, 2024
Congratulations to Henry on his Acceptance into the USYD Doctoral Programe!
We’re thrilled to share that Henry Xu has been accepted into the PhD program at the Cancer and Stem Cell Laboratory, Sch…
2023
The Mangul lab presented five talks at the ICCABS 2023 conference
Seungmo Lee December 14, 2023
The Mangul lab presented five talks at the ICCABS 2023 conference
Ram Ayyala, Grigore Boldirev, Seungmo Lee, and Justin Su participated in the 12th International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS) which was held at the University of Oklahoma from December 11-13, 2023.
ICCABS stands at the forefront of integrating computational methods with biological research, aiming to bring together leading academic and industry researchers to discuss the latest adva…
Nitesh Kumar Sharma October 25, 2023
Navigating Metagenomics Research: A High School Student’s Journey at USC BUGS Jr. Summer Research Program 2023
Diya Sreedhar, a rising Junior at Troy High School, Fullerton, CA successfully completed a novel research project in the niche field of Metagenomics as part of the USC BUGS 2023 Summer Research Program. She conducted her research at the Mangul Lab under the guidance of her mentor, Dr. Nitesh Sharma, who is a Postdoctoral researcher. Diya’s research project, titled ‘Meta…
Navigating the USC BUGS Jr. Summer Research Program 2023: A Handbook for High School Participants
Yu Ning Huang October 14, 2023
Navigating the USC BUGS Jr. Summer Research Program 2023: A Handbook for High School Participants
Shaunak Kapur, a rising senior from Seven Lakes High School in Houston, Texas, has embodied this commitment through his proactive involvement in the research endeavors, particularly during his summer term at the BUGS research program at the University of Southern California (USC). Shaunak foray into the sophisticated world of immunogenetics research began in The Mangul lab with his…
Ultimate Guide: BIG Summer 2023
Seungmo Lee August 24, 2023
Ultimate Guide: BIG Summer 2023
BIG Summer Research Symposium and Poster Presentation!
I participated in BIG Summer 2023 this summer, and the program offers an unparalleled opportuni…
The Mangul lab presented two talks and two posters at the ISMB/ECCB 2023 conference in Lyon, France
Yu Ning Huang July 31, 2023
The Mangul lab presented two talks and two posters at the ISMB/ECCB 2023 conference in Lyon, France
Yu Ning Huang and his esteemed mentor, Serghei Mangul, left an indelible mark at the ISMB/ECCB20…
Khooshbu Patel July 22, 2023
A transformative pursuit
Over the past two years, I have embarked on an extraordinary journey as I pursued my Master’s degree at the University of Southern California. This transforma…
Varuni Sarwal selected as a 2023 Amazon Fellow!
Grigore Boldirev July 13, 2023
Varuni Sarwal selected as a 2023 Amazon Fellow! Varuni Sarwal, a CS PhD student jointly advised by Eleazar Eskin, UCLA and Serghei Mangul, USC was selected as one of the 2023 Amazon Fe…
Navigating the job hunt: A piece of advice from my own experience
Anushka Yadav June 22, 2023
Hello everyone! As graduation season sweeps in, it brings with it a mix of excitement, anticipation, and a touch of apprehension. The thrill of completing years of hard work and the prospect of new…
Cynthia Ronkowski June 21, 2023
Would you like to take part in an exciting, one-day event along with fellow researchers across the globe? Then consider representing Los Angeles in this year’s Global City Sampling Day, hosted by t…
My pieces of advice for PhD students
Kerui-Peng June 06, 2023
Congratulations on being accepted into the PhD program and choosing to join the Mangul Lab at USC!
I was the first PhD student in this lab and recently graduated from the CXPT PhD program in less …
Dr. Mangul featured in COVID-19 preparedness article on GenomeWeb
Dottie Yu June 05, 2023
Dr. Mangul was featured in a recent GenomeWeb article that sheds light on what we can learn from the bioinformatics response to the COVID-19 pandemic, to prepare for future pandemics.
According to…
NOW RECRUITING: 2023-2024 NSF-funded UNDERGRADUATE STEM INTERN!
Grigore Boldirev May 08, 2023
NOW RECRUITING: 2023-2024 NSF-funded UNDERGRADUATE STEM INTERN!
We are actively accepting applications from current undergraduate STEM students to fill the position of an Undergraduate Researcher …
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS: 2023-2024 USC URAP FELLOW!
Grigore Boldirev April 17, 2023
Now recruiting: 2023-2024 USC URAP Fellow!
We are actively accepting applications from current USC undergraduate students to fill the position for the USC Undergraduate Research Associates Program…
Congratulations to Dhrithi on her acceptance into the USC PHTS Graduate Program!
Grigore Boldirev April 13, 2023
Congratulations to Dhrithi Deshpande on her acceptance into the prestigious Pharmaceutical & Translational Sciences (PHTS) Graduate Program at USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy…
Grigore Boldirev April 12, 2023
Congratulations to Anushka Yadav, a Master’s student in Mangul lab, on landing her new job as a Bioinformatics Technician in The Brown Lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New…
Serghei Mangul March 25, 2023
Celebrating Srishti Ginjala’s Admission to The Ohio State University as Computer Science PhD Student!
Congratulations to Srishti Ginjala on being accepted to the Ohio State University…
Celebrating Tejasvene Ramesh: Accepted into UMass Boston’s Ph.D. Integrated Biosciences Program!
Serghei Mangul March 24, 2023
Celebrating Tejasvene Ramesh: Accepted into UMass Boston’s Ph.D. Integrated Biosciences Program!
Congratulations to Tejasvene Ramesh, a Master’s Student in Mangul Lab, on her acceptan…
Congratulations to Grigore on acceptance into the Georgia State University Graduate Program!
Serghei Mangul March 23, 2023
Congratulations to Grigore Boldirev on acceptance into the Georgia State University Graduate Program! We are pleased to share the exciting news that one of our exceptional undergraduat…
Congratulations to Qiushi on acceptance into the University of Notre Dame Graduate Program!
Grigore Boldirev March 20, 2023
Congratulations to Qiushi Peng on acceptance into the University of Notre Dame Graduate Program! We are thrilled to share with you the news of Qiushi’s acceptance into the Graduate Pro…
Congratulations to Cecilia on Acceptance into USC QCB Graduate Program!
Grigore Boldirev March 13, 2023
Congratulations to Cecilia Liu on Acceptance into USC QCB Graduate Program! We are delighted to share the exciting news that Cecilia Liu, one of our talented undergraduate students pur…
Mangul Lab Awarded $3.9 Million NIH Grant
Grigore Boldirev February 22, 2023
Serghei Mangul was selected as a mentor for NIH AIM-AHEAD Fellowship Serghei Mangul, assistant professor of clinical pharmacy at the USC Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, was sel…
Congratulations to Dottie Yu on Provost Undergraduate Research award!
Grigore Boldirev January 05, 2023
Congratulations to Dottie Yu on Provost Undergraduate Research award!
Congratulations to Dottie Yu for winning the Spring 2023 Provost Undergraduate Research Fellowship award. She is …
2022
Mangul Lab to present at the Rocky Bioinformatics Conference 2022
Mohammad Vahed December 20, 2022
Mangul Lab to present at the Rocky Bioinformatics Conference 2022 Two members of the Mangul lab were invited to give talks at the Rocky Bioinformatics Conference 2022. Serghei Mangul, present a research project titled “Rigorous benchmarking of T cell receptor repertoire profiling methods for cancer RNA sequencing” and Mohammad Vahed, a postdoctoral researcher in our lab, presented a research project titled “A comprehensive analysis of the reusability of public omics data across 4…
Mangul Lab to present at ASHG 2022
Kerui Peng October 25, 2022
Looking forward to sharing research findings from Mangul lab with you! Members of Mangul Lab at the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy will present at the 2022 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting in LA:
Platform Presentation: Yesha Patel et al. Reading between the reads: Getting the most out of sequencing results, Session 48, Oct 27 (Thursday), 1:45 pm at Conv Ctr/West Hall A/West Building
Poster presentations: Oct 26 (Wednesday) 3-4:45 PM at Exh…
Mangul Lab to present at the NGSymposium in Computational Biology 2022
Kerui Peng October 06, 2022
Five members of the lab were invited to give talks at the NGSymposium in Computational Biology. Yesha M. Patel, a Senior Data Scientist in our lab, presented a research project titled “Seeing beyond the target: leveraging off-target reads in clinical tumor sequencing to identify prognostic biomarkers and survival.” Mohammad Vahed, a postdoctoral researcher in our lab, presented a research project titled “A comprehensive analysis of the reusability of public omics data across 2.8 million resea…
Congratulations to Cecilia (Fangyun) Liu on Provost Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
Grigore Boldirev September 14, 2022
Congratulations to Cecilia (Fangyun) Liu on Provost Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
Congratulations to Cecilia (Fangyun) Liu for winning the Fall 2022 Provost Undergraduate Researc…
Grigore Boldirev August 20, 2022
Congratulations to Andrew Wesel on acceptance into the Southern California Academy of Sciences (SCAS) Research Training Program (RTP)!
Andrew Wesel was accepted into the Southern Cali…
Grigore Boldirev August 18, 2022
Congratulations to Yesha Patel on making it through to the Semi finals for the 2022 Charles J. Epstein Trainee Awards for Excellence in Human Genetics Research!
Senior Data Scientist …
My journey to pursuing a PhD in Computer Science
Sei Chang August 09, 2022
My journey to pursuing a PhD in Computer Science
All the preconceived notions I held about computer science at UCLA were thrown out the window after the first year of classes. From dissecting asse…
Dottie and Cecilia share their experience at the 2022 USC QCB Conference
Dottie Yu June 03, 2022
Dottie’s Experience
My name is Dottie Yu and I am an undergraduate student in the Quantitative Biology BS program at USC. I am very glad to have attended the 2022 QCB Symposium at USC and present …
Cynthia Ronkowski May 16, 2022
Would you like to take part in an exciting, one-day event along with fellow researchers across the globe? Then consider representing Los Angeles in this year’s Global City Sampling Day, hosted by t…
Now recruiting: 2022-2023 Undergraduate STEM Intern!
Anish Nagareddy May 09, 2022
NOW RECRUITING: 2022-2023 NSF-funded UNDERGRADUATE STEM INTERN!
We are actively accepting applications from current undergraduate STEM students to fill the position of an Undergraduate Researcher …
Congratulations to Dottie Yu on Provost Undergraduate Research award!
Srishti Ginjala April 15, 2022
Congratulations to Dottie Yu on Provost Undergraduate Research award!
Congratulations to Dottie Yu for winning the Summer 2022 Provost Undergraduate Research Fellowship award. She is awarded for c…
2021
Now recruiting: Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate - Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics
Serghei Mangul July 21, 2021
A Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate position is available in the lab of Dr. Serghei Mangul in the Titus Family Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy at the University of Southern California. The Mangul lab aims to combine open omics data with robust bioinformatics methods to enable novel biological discoveries. This includes designing, developing, and applying novel and robust data-driven, computational approaches that will accelerate the diffusion of genomics and biomedic…
Now recruiting: 2021 USC SURF Program! (4000$ stipend!)
Dhrithi Deshpande May 09, 2021
Now recruiting: 2021 USC SURF Program!
We are actively accepting applications from current undergraduate students to fill the position of an Undergraduate Research Associate in the Mangul Lab for Summer 2021. Fellows will receive a $4,000 stipend for a virtual full‐time program during summer (full time, 10 weeks minimum; involvement for a longer period may depend upon project and faculty preference) The Mangul Lab is committed to ensuring an inclusive and supportive environment regardless of…
Now recruiting: 2021-2022 Undergraduate STEM Intern!
Dhrithi Deshpande May 04, 2021
Now recruiting: 2021-2022 Undergraduate STEM Intern!
We are actively accepting applications from current undergraduate STEM students to fill the position of an Undergraduate Researcher at the Mangul Lab for Summer 2021.
The Mangul Lab is committed to ensuring an inclusive and supportive environment regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, or socioeconomic background.
DEADLINE TO APPLY? Thursday, May 20, 2021 5:00pm Pacific Time (We …
Now Accepting Applications: 2021-2022 USC URAP Fellow!
Dhrithi Deshpande April 21, 2021
Now recruiting: 2021-2022 USC URAP Fellow!
We are actively accepting applications from current USC undergraduate students to fill the position for the USC Undergraduate Research Associates Program…
Featured in USC School of Pharmacy February 2021 Newsletter
Dhrithi Deshpande March 24, 2021
A big thank you to USC School of Pharmacy for featuring me in the Graduate Program Newsletter for participating in the Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society Conference 2020 (…
Featured in USC School of Pharmacy February 2021 Newsletter
Karishma Chhugani March 20, 2021
Thank you to USC School of Pharmacy for featuring me in this month’s Graduate Program Newsletter! I presented virtually on “Comprehensive Analysis of Usability and Archival Stability of RNA-seq Too…
2020
Now accepting applications: 2020-2021 USC URAP Undergraduate Fellow!
Lana Martin August 11, 2020
Accepting applications for the 2020-2021 USC URAP Fellow
We are actively accepting applications from current USC undergraduate students to fill one position for the USC Undergraduate Research Associates Program in Mangul Lab for Fall 2020 and Spring 2021.
The theme of our URAP internship for 2020-2021 is “Big Data Analysis Techniques (BDAT) for Scientific Reproducibility.” Please review the application page for additional information: http://www.sergheimangul.com/opportunities/2020-2021-ura…
Mangul Lab at USC welcomes postdoctoral scholar JungHyun Jung
Lana Martin August 10, 2020
Welcome to Mangul Lab JJ
Mangul Lab welcomes to the team a new postdoctoral scholar, JungHyun (JJ) Jung! JJ joins Mangul Lab at USC as a new postdoctoral scholar and is co-advised by Dr. Serghei Mangul and Dr. Nicholas Mancuso.
JJ received his Ph.D.in 2020 from Dongguk University in Korea. His research interests include integrative analysis using multi-omic data and method development for functional genomic data. While earning his PhD, JJ was advised by Dr. Jong Wha (Joanne) Joo and worked …
Mangul Lab to present at 2020 ACM-BCB
Lana Martin August 05, 2020
Mangul Lab to present at 2020 ACM-BCB
Congratulations to Mangul Lab postdoc Jaque Brito, whose highlight talk has been accepted for presentation at the 11th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB).
Jaque will deliver her talk, “Benchmarking of computational error-correction methods for next-generation sequencing data,” at ACM-BCB 2020, which will be held September 21 to 24, 2020, as a virtual conference. The highlight talk will present the m…
Mangul Lab to present at Workshop on Computational Biology in ICML 2020
Lana Martin July 17, 2020
Mangul Lab to present at ICML 2020 Workshop
Serghei will present a highlight talk titled, “Profiling immunoglobulin repertoires across multiple human tissues using RNA Sequencing,” at the ICML 202…
The first HiTSeq talk from Mangul Lab
Lana Martin July 15, 2020
First HiTSeq talk from Mangul Lab
Congratulations to Nathan LaPierre on the acceptance of his abstract to the High Throughput Sequencing (HiTSeq) 2020 virtual meeting.
Nathan will be presenting h…
Mangul Lab to present at BCC2020
Lana Martin July 14, 2020
Mangul Lab to present at BCC2020
Congratulations to Jaque Brito, Mangul Lab postdoctoral scholar, Niko Darci-Maher, Mangul Lab undergraduate researcher, and Varuni Sarwal, Mangul Lab alumni, on th…
Jenny Wu: What I’ve Learned in the Mangul Lab
Jenny Wu July 06, 2020
Jenny reflects on research in Mangul Lab
I have been in the lab since a junior year at UCLA, and I started out learning about the error correction benchmarking project. I began by learning about t…
Mangul Lab at USC welcomes undergraduate researcher Harman Singh
Lana Martin June 29, 2020
Welcome to Mangul Lab Harman
Mangul Lab welcomes to the team a new undergraduate researcher, Harman Singh!
Harman is an Electrical Engineering sophomore at the Indian Institute of Technology Delh…
The first RECOMB-Seq talk from Mangul Lab
Lana Martin June 22, 2020
First RECOMB-Seq talk from Mangul Lab
Congratulations to Nathan LaPierre, a PhD student in ZarLab at UCLA and a collaborator with Mangul Lab at USC, on the acceptance of his oral presentation, “Me…
Lana Martin June 19, 2020
Mangul Lab publishes fifth paper presenting a novel method for profiling immunoglobulin (Ig) receptor repertoires from RNA-Seq
SMangul Lab at USC published a paper presenting ImReP – a novel compu…
Mangul Lab at USC welcomes Master’s student Anushka Rajesh
Lana Martin June 17, 2020
Welcome to Mangul Lab Anushka
Mangul Lab welcomes to the team a new Master’s student, Anushka Rajesh!
Anushka is pursuing the Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Sou…
Lana Martin June 01, 2020
Mangul Lab releases fourth paper that recommends ways to enhance rigor and reproducibility in biomedical research
Mangul Lab at USC has published our fourth paper in GigaScience, which presents ou…
Welcome Angela back to Mangul Lab as PhD student
Lana Martin May 04, 2020
Welcome to Mangul Lab Angela
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 & …
Mangul Lab submits preprint of a WGS-based structural variant callers benchmarking study
Lana Martin April 29, 2020
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) call…
Lana Martin April 13, 2020
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 …
Mangul Lab publishes third paper – an analysis of microbial reference databases
Lana Martin April 10, 2020
Analysis of microbial reference databases
Today we celebrate the publication of our third peer-reviewed paper since Mangul Lab launched at USC!
Cailtin Loeffler and Aaron Karlsberg, both alumnus …
Mangul Lab joins urgent efforts to track COVID-19 by zipcode
Lana Martin April 08, 2020
Mangul Lab joins urgent efforts to track COVID-19 by zipcode
Members of Mangul Lab have joined efforts with UCLA researchers to curate data that will help hospitals—already burdened by the COVID-1…
Interview in Nature Methods: Bench pressing with genomics benchmarkers
Lana Martin April 06, 2020
Bench pressing with genomics benchmarkers
A journalist with Nature Methods recently interviewed Serghei on the increasingly important role that benchmarking studies play in biomedical and life sci…
Lana Martin March 20, 2020
Mangul Lab submits preprint presenting Metalign, software that boosts accuracy of existing metagenomic profiling methods
Mangul Lab at USC shared a new preprint which presents Metalign – a tool de…
Lana Martin March 20, 2020
Recommendations to enhance rigor and reproducibility in biomedical research
Mangul Lab at USC has shared a new preprint, which presents our group’s review of efforts to improve scientific rigor an…
Mangul Lab publishes second paper – a benchmarking study of error correction methods
Lana Martin March 19, 2020
Mangul Lab publishes second paper – a benchmarking study of error correction methods
Today we celebrate the publication of our second peer-reviewed paper since Mangul Lab launched at USC.
Keith M…
Mangul Lab submits preprint exploring read alignment techniques for short and long reads
Lana Martin March 17, 2020
Mangul Lab submits preprint exploring read alignment techniques for short and long reads
Last week, Mangul Lab at USC shared a new preprint, which presents our group’s review of the role algorithm…
Mangul Lab publishes first paper, a novel tool for managing bioinformatics analyses
Lana Martin March 03, 2020
a novel tool for managing bioinformatics analyses
We are proud to announce that our lab has published our first peer-reviewed paper since we established at USC School of Pharmacy in Fall 2019! Jaq…
2019
Mangul Lab celebrates conclusion of first semester at USC School of Pharmacy
Lana Martin December 20, 2019
End Year Celebration
Our group is celebrating the end of a productive calendar year—and the conclusion of our first semester at USC School of Pharmacy! We are proud to share the preprints and papers we produced with our incredible collaborators at ZarLab in the Department of Computational Medicine at UCLA, members of our own group now in the Titus Department of Clinical Pharmacy at USC, and the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Consortium.
Earlier this week, we celebrated our lab’s accompli…
Lana Martin December 03, 2019
Mangul Lab submits preprint presenting a comprehensive review of the diagnostic and therapeutic potential of metagenomics
Just before the Thanksgiving holiday break, Mangul Lab at USC released our second preprint—a review of the diagnostic and therapeutic potential of metagenomics.
Several members of our group—Caitlin Loeffler (Bioinformatics Analyst), Lana Martin (Project Specialist), Yutong Chang (Master’s student), Jeremy Rotman (alumni)—collaborated with Keylie Gibson, Ian Toma, and Kei…
Mangul Lab at USC attends first conference at ICCABS 2019 in Miami
Lana Martin November 18, 2019
Mangul Lab at ICCABS 2019
Last week, Serghei Mangul and Kerui Peng attended the 2019 9th International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and medical Sciences (ICCABS) at Florida International University in Miami!
Kerui, a PhD rotation student in Mangul Lab at USC, presented her research in an oral presentation, “Reuse of publicly available omics data across 1 million research publications,” at the meeting’s 9th Workshop on Computational Advances for Next Generation Sequencing.
In…
Mangul Lab PhD student Kerui Peng wins travel award to present at ICCABS 2019
Lana Martin November 06, 2019
Mangul Lab PhD student Kerui Peng wins travel award to present at ICCABS 2019
Congratulations to Kerui Peng, a PhD rotation student in Mangul Lab at USC, on the acceptance of her oral presentation…
Mangul Lab member Sei Chang reflects on summer undergraduate research experience
Lana Martin October 21, 2019
Mangul Lab member Sei Chang reflects on summer undergraduate research experience
Working in a research lab can be an invaluable experience for undergrads — and immersive summer research experience…
Lana Martin October 07, 2019
Mangul Lab submits first preprint presenting app for managing high-throughput analyses via mobile device
This week, Mangul Lab at USC released our first preprint, a paper that presents Telescope –…
UCLA undergraduate students and alumni join Mangul Lab at USC
Lana Martin September 25, 2019
UCLA undergraduate students and alumni join Mangul Lab at USC
We are excited to announce that a group of talented Bruins will be continuing their on-going computational genomics projects as inaugu…
Lana Martin September 19, 2019
Mangul Lab is recruiting!
The Mangul Lab at USC is looking for talented and highly motivated graduate students and post-docs. For more information, please see our Opportunities posting.
Serghei Mangul Joins USC School of Pharmacy Faculty
Serghei Mangul September 01, 2019
Serghei joins USC Faculty
As of September 1, 2019, Serghei Mangul, PhD, has joined the faculty of the Titus Department of Clinical Pharmacy as assistant professor of pharmacy.
Read more about it …