Nicolae Sapoval
Wir müssen wissen – wir werden wissen (David Hilbert)
Duncan Hall
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at Rice University in Dr. Luay Nakhleh’s group. 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.
news
| Oct 30, 2026 | “Advancing microbial pangenomics through human pangenomics” is out in Trends in Genetics |
|---|---|
| Oct 18, 2026 | “DIMPLE: A Tree-Guided Divide-and-Conquer Framework for ILS-Aware Phylogenetic Network Inference on Large-Scale Data” is available on bioRxiv |
| Jun 26, 2026 | “Kente: A Graph-based Pangenomic Approach for Horizontal Gene Transfer Detection in Microbiomes” is available on bioRxiv |
| May 26, 2026 | “On the consistency of duplication, loss, and deep coalescence gene tree parsimony costs under the multispecies coalescent” is out in the proceedings of RECOMB-CG Springer |
| May 26, 2026 | “Theoretical and Empirical Performance of Pseudo-likelihood-based Bayesian Inference of Species Trees under the Multispecies Coalescent” is out in the proceedings of RECOMB-CG Springer |
| Apr 30, 2026 | “Impact of Data Error on Phylogenetic Network Inference from Gene Trees Under the Multispecies Network Coalescent” is out in Methods in Molecular Biology Springer |
| Mar 12, 2026 | “Leveraging spectrum of graph sheaf Laplacian as a genome-architecture-aware measure of microbiome diversity” is available on bioRxiv |
| Feb 21, 2026 | “On the consistency of duplication, loss, and deep coalescence gene tree parsimony costs under the multispecies coalescent” is available on bioRxiv |
| Nov 28, 2025 | “GRNITE: Gene Regulatory Network Inference with Text Embeddings” is available on bioRxiv |
| Jun 16, 2025 | “A survey of computational approaches for characterizing microbial interactions in microbial mats” is out in Genome Biology |