Dr. Nicholas Panchy
Research Consultant, MSU Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research
Biomedical Physical Sciences Building
828-423-4718
panchyni@msu.edu
Link to CV
Bio: Dr. Nicholas Panchy is a Research Consultant at the Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research. Prior to joining ICER in 2022, Dr. Panchy received his Ph.D. in Genetics from Michigan State University in 2017, where he studied gene expression in a variant of plant and microbial systems using bioinformatic and computational techniques. After receiving his Ph.D., he pursued post-doctoral training in mathematical modeling in the lab of Tian Hong at the University of Tennessee Knoxville (2017-2022).
Research and technical skills:
- Actively practicing and teaching scientific programming in Python and R
- Prior experience in C++, C-sharp, MATLAB, and Mathematica
- Experienced with pre-processing, cleaning, and investigation of large-scale omics data using both statistical and dimension-reduction based approaches
- Experienced with genome assembling, annotation, and alignment algorithm using both short and long reads
Selected Publications
- Panchy N, Watanabe K, Hong T. Interpretable, Scalable, and Transferrable Functional Projection of Large-Scale Transcriptome Data Using Constrained Matrix Decomposition. Front Genet. 2021 Aug 20;12:719099.
- Panchy N, von Arnim AG, Hong T. (2020) Early Detection of Daylengths with a Feedforward Circuit Coregulated by Circadian and Diurnal Cycles. Biophys J. 119(9):1878-1895
- Panchy N, Azeredo-Tseng C, Luo M, Randall N, Hong T. (2020) Integrative Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals a Multiphasic Epithelial-Mesenchymal Spectrum in Cancer and Non-tumorigenic Cells. Front Oncol. 9:1479