Cristian Coarfa, Ph.D.
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Cristian Coarfa, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Positions
- Associate Professor
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Mol and Cell Biology-Mol.Regulation
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US
- Associate Professor
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Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States
- Associate Professor
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Center for Precision Environmental Health
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
Houston, Texas United States
Education
- PhD from Rice University
- Houston, TX United States
- Computer Science
- MS from Rice University
- Houston, TX United States
- Computer Science
Professional Statement
Our research focuses on achieving biological insight via integrative analysis, interpretation, and visualization of large scale multi-omics datasets, and enabling of scientific advancements via collaborative tools and computing platforms. Our lab has extensive experience with analysis of RNA-Seq coding and non-coding transcriptomics, Small RNA-Seq, Whole-Genome Bisulfite-Seq, MS-based Metabolomics and Lipidomics, MS Proteomics, and RPPA Proteomics. We have developed methods for integration of genetic and epigenetic variation, reference pipelines for epigenetic assays, and bioinformatic tools for high-throughput reads mapping and structural variants detection. Our current focus is on tool development for metabolomics and transcriptomics integration, and mining of large transcriptomic and epigenomic data collections.Websites
Selected Publications
- Coarfa C, Yu F, Miller CA, Chen Z, Harris RA, Milosavljevic A "Pash 3.0: A versatile software package for read mapping and integrative analysis of genomic and epigenomic variation using massively parallel DNA sequencing.." BMC Bioinformatics. 2010;11:572. Pubmed PMID: 21092284
- Van Baak TE, Coarfa C, et al, Waterland RA. "Epigenetic supersimilarity of monozygotic twin pairs." Genome Biology. 2018 Jan 9;19 Pubmed PMID: 29310692
- Mindikoglu AL, Opekun AR, Putluri N, Coarfa C "Unique metabolomic signature associated with hepatorenal dysfunction and mortality in cirrhosis." Transl Res. 2018 May; Pubmed PMID: 29291380
- Abbas HA, Bui NHB, Rajapakshe K, Wong J, Gunaratne P, Tsai KY, Coarfa C, Flores ER "Distinct TP63 Isoform-Driven Transcriptional Signatures Predict Tumor Progression and Clinical Outcomes." Cancer Research. 2018 Jan; Pubmed PMID: 29180475
- Coarfa C, Couroucli X, Moorthy B, Lingappan K "Sexual dimorphism of the pulmonary transcriptome in neonatal hyperoxic lung injury: identification of angiogenesis as a key pathway." Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2017 Dec; Pubmed PMID: 28818871
- von Rundstedt FC, Rajapakshe K, Lerner SP, Coarfa C, Putluri N. "Integrative Pathway Analysis of Metabolic Signature in Bladder Cancer: A Linkage to The Cancer Genome Atlas Project and Prediction of Survival." J Urology. 2016 Jun; Pubmed PMID: 26802582
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