About me

I recently joined the Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core (HBC) as an analyst and member of the training team. Previously, I worked at the Single-cell Analysis Innovation Lab (SAIL) which is led by Dr. Dana Pe'er at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Publications

SEACells infers transcriptional and epigenomic cellular states from single-cell genomics data

Sitara Persad, Zi-Ning Choo, Christine Dien, Noor Sohail, Ignas Masilionis, Ronan Chaligné, Tal Nawy, Chrysothemis C. Brown, Roshan Sharma, Itsik Pe’er, Manu Setty, Dana Pe’er

Nature Biotechnology (2023)

MACHETE identifies interferon-encompassing chromosome 9p21.3 deletions as mediators of immune evasion and metastasis

Francisco M. Barriga, Kaloyan M. Tsanov, Yu-Jui Ho, Noor Sohail, Amy Zhang, Timour Baslan, Alexandra N. Wuest, Isabella Del Priore, Brigita Meškauskaitė, Geulah Livshits, Direna Alonso-Curbelo, Janelle Simon, Almudena Chaves-Perez, Dafna Bar-Sagi, Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue, Faiyaz Notta, Ronan Chaligne, Roshan Sharma, Dana Pe’er, Scott W. Lowe.

Nature Cancer (2022)

Overcoming Challenging Substituent Perturbations with Multisite λ-Dynamics: A Case Study Targeting β-Secretase 1

Jonah Z. Vilseck, Noor Sohail, Ryan L. Hayes, and Charles L. Brooks III.

The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (2019)

Landscape of Germline and Somatic Mitochondrial DNA Mutations in Pediatric Malignancies

Petr Triska, Kristiyana Kaneva, Daria Merkurjev, Noor Sohail, Marni J. Falk, Timothy J. Triche Jr, Jaclyn A. Biegel, Xiaowu Gai.

Cancer Research (2019)

Work Experience

  • Apr 2023 - Present

    Bioinformatician II
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
    Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core (HBC)

    Interpreting omics data for labs within the larger Harvard community. Teaching workshops and modules to students on data analysis and bioinformatics methods.

  • Apr 2021 - Apr 2023

    Computational Biologist
    Sloan Kettering Instute
    Single-cell Analaysis Innovation Lab (SAIL)

    Analyzing and creating pipelines for scRNA-seq with current computational approaches such as dimensionality reduction, differential gene expression analysis, and GSEA.

  • May 2020 - Aug 2020

    Summer Research Intern
    Weill Cornell Medicine
    Cantley Lab

    Mapped differential gene expression to proteins in order to investigate phosphorylation patterns.

  • Jan 2020 - Mar 2020

    Lab Prep Assistant
    University of Michigan

    Prepared reagents and materials for an advanced laboratory biology course.

  • May 2018 - Aug 2018
    May 2019 - Aug 2019

    Summer Research Intern
    Van Andel Research Institute
    Triche Lab

    Maintained and extended MTseeker, an R Bioconductor package that isolates variants in mitochondrial DNA, to trace lineages in single cell samples.

  • Jan 2018 - Apr 2018

    Mathematics Tutor
    University of Michigan

    Mentored University of Michigan students one-on-one in Calculus 1 and 2 through the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives.

  • Oct 2017 - Dec 2019

    Undergraduate Researcher
    University of Michigan
    Brooks Lab

    Simulated interactions between proteins and ligands using computational chemistry techniques to determine free energies of binding.

  • Sep 2016 - May 2020

    University of Michigan

    B.Sc Life Science Informatics

  • 2016