Sam Morabito
smorabit{at}uci.edu
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California Irvine in the Swarup Lab where I work on expanding our understanding of human neurological diseases using high-dimensional genomics approaches like single-cell and spatial -omics. I recently earned my PhD in Mathematical, Computational and Systems Biology (MCSB) at UC Irvine, and I am continuing my research career as a Computational Biology Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico in Barcelona starting in spring 2024.
Outside of the lab, my favorite things to do include making and drinking specialty coffee, playing with my cats Kiki and Junior, listening to music (mostly metal!), and gaming.
news
Jan 17, 2024 | Today I successfully defended my PhD dissertation! |
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Jul 26, 2023 | Our new study of spatial and single-nucleus transcriptomics in genetic and sporadic Alzheimer’s Disease is now out on bioRxiv! Check out the pre-print here. |
Sep 23, 2022 | hdWGCNA, an R package that I developed for performing co-expression network analysis in single-cell and spatial transcriptomics data, is now on bioRxiv! hdWGCNA uses Seurat objects and essentially begins where the Seurat tutorial ends. Check out the hdWGCNA manuscript on bioRxiv and the hdWGCNA R package on GitHub. |
Aug 27, 2022 | I was recently awarded a Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31) from the National Institute on Aging for my research proposal titled “Single-cell epigenomic roadmap of Alzheimer’s disease”. This preliminary results for this project can be found in my Nature Genetics paper. I am immensely thankful for the support system in my lab and at UC Irvine that helped me to achieve this fellowship. |