Dr. Levi Waldron
CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York
levi.waldron@sph.cuny.edu; http://www.waldronlab.org
Professional Preparation
Assistant Professor, City University of New York School of Public
Health, New York, NY, 2013-present
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts UK. 2010-2013
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Ontario. 2008-2010
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Ontario. 2007-2008
Post-doctoral Fellow, Royal Roads University, Victoria, British Columbia. 2005-2007
Instructor, Royal Roads University, Victoria, British Columbia. 2006-2008
PhD, University of Toronto, Ontario. 2005
Master, University of Waterloo, Ontario. 1998
Selected Publications
Re A, Waldron L, Quattrone A: Control of gene expression by RNA binding
protein action on alternative translation initiation sites. PLoS Comput. Biol. 2016, 12:e1005198.
Waldron L, Riester M, Ramos M, Parmigiani G, Birrer M: The Doppelgänger Effect: Hidden Duplicates in Databases of Transcriptome Profiles. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 2016, 108.
Nelms BD, Waldron L, Barrera LA, Weflen AW, Goettel JA, Guo G, Montgomery RK, Neutra MR, Breault DT, Snapper SB, Orkin SH, Bulyk ML, Huttenhower C, Lencer WI: CellMapper: rapid and accurate inference of gene expression in difficult-to-isolate cell types. Genome Biol. 2016, 17:201.
Pasolli E, Truong DT, Malik F, Waldron L, Segata N: Machine Learning Meta-analysis of Large Metagenomic Datasets: Tools and Biological Insights. PLoS Comput. Biol. 2016, 12:e1004977
Morgan XC, Kabakchiev B, Waldron L, Tyler AD, Tickle TL, Milgrom R, Stempak JM, Gevers D, Xavier RJ, Silverberg MS, Huttenhower C: Associations between host gene expression, the mucosal microbiome, and clinical outcome in the pelvic pouch of patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Genome Biol. 2015, 16:67.
Morgan X, Kabakchiev B, Waldron L, Tyler A, Tickle T, Milgrom R, Stempak J, Gevers D, Xavier R, Silverberg M, Huttenhower C: Associations between host gene expression, the mucosal microbiome, and clinical outcome in the pelvic pouch of patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Genome Biol. 2015, 16:67.
Huber W, Carey VJ, Gentleman R, Anders S, Carlson M, Carvalho BS, Bravo HC, Davis S, Gatto L, Girke T, Gottardo R, Hahne F, Hansen KD, Irizarry RA, Lawrence M, Love MI, MacDonald J, Obenchain V, Oleś AK, Pagès H, Reyes A, Shannon P, Smyth GK, Tenenbaum D, Waldron L, Morgan M: Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor. Nat. Methods 2015, 12:115–121.
Zhao SD, Parmigiani G, Huttenhower C, Waldron L: Más-o-menos: a simple sign averaging method for discrimination in genomic data analysis. Bioinformatics 2014.
Bernau C, Riester M, Boulesteix A-L, Parmigiani G, Huttenhower C, Waldron L, Trippa L. Crossstudy validation for assessment of prediction algorithms. Bioinformatics 2014 30:i105–i112.
Franzosa EA, Morgan XC, Segata N, Waldron L, Reyes J, Earl AM, Giannoukos G, Boylan MR, Ciulla D, Gevers D, Izard J, Garrett WS, Chan AT, Huttenhower C. Relating the metatranscriptome and metagenome of the human gut. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2014.
full list of publications:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-Bfm-2IAAAAJ&hl=it