Nicolae Sapoval

Wir müssen wissen – wir werden wissen (David Hilbert)

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Houston, TX 77005

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at Rice University in Dr. Luay Nakhleh’s lab lab. My research interests lie at the intersection of computer science, mathematics, and biology. I have received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rice University under the guidance of Dr. Todd J. Treangen. I have previously completed a B.Sc. with Honors in Mathematics, and a B.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Chicago.

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Apr 07, 2025 Preprint “Intratumor Heterogeneity Through the Lens of Gene Regulatory Networks” is available on bioRxiv
Jan 31, 2025 Preprint “Theoretical and Empirical Performance of Pseudo-likelihood-based Bayesian Inference of Species Trees under the Multispecies Coalescent” is available on bioRxiv
Dec 31, 2024 Added a note on “How I find, organize and read papers”
Jun 03, 2024 Preprint “Lightweight taxonomic profiling of long-read sequenced metagenomes with Lemur and Magnet” is available on bioRxiv
Jun 01, 2024 Started postdoctoral postion in Dr. Luay Nakhleh’s lab at Rice University
May 28, 2024 “Crykey: Rapid identification of SARS-CoV-2 cryptic mutations in wastewater” is out in Nature Communications
Apr 02, 2024 Successfully defended Ph.D. thesis titled Interrogating Microbial Populations: from Large-scale Data to Algorithms to Field-deployed Software. The complete thesis PDF is available at Rice Research Reporsitory
Jan 01, 2024 “KombOver: Efficient k-core and K-truss based characterization of perturbations within the human gut microbiome” is out in Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2024
May 17, 2023 “Enabling accurate and early detection of recently emerged SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in wastewater” is out in Nature Communications
Jun 17, 2022 “KOMB: K-core based de novo characterization of copy number variation in microbiomes” is out in Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal