Publications

Names of lab members are shown in bold. * indicates equal contribution.

2026

Kodikara, S.*, Mao, J.*, San Valentin, E. M. D., Do, K.-A., Reyes-Gibby, C. & Lê Cao, K.-A. (Accepted). Oral microbial signatures of head and neck cancer patients highlight diverse longitudinal patterns of oral mucositis severity. BMC Microbiology. Read the bioRxiv version here.

Sun, Y., Marron, J. S., Lê Cao, K.-A.* & Mao, J.* (2006). DIVAS: an R package for identifying shared and individual vari- ations of multiomics data. Bioinformatics..

Ma, C., Mao, J.*, Lê Cao, K.-A.* (2026). Multivariate integration of histological images and gene expression data: a comparative review. bioRxiv.

Mao, J., Choi, J.* & Lê Cao, K.-A.* (2026). Φ-Space ST: a platform-agnostic method to identify cell states in spatial transcriptomics studies. Cell Reports Methods. Seminar recording

Deng, Y., Mao, J.*, Choi, J.* & Lê Cao, K.-A.* (2026). Scalable cell-specific coexpression networks for granular regulatory pattern discovery with NeighbourNet. Genome Research.

Liu, X.-Z., Panina, Y., Cai, W., Fernández-García, J., Peng-Winkler, Y., Mao, J., … Fendt, S.-M. (2026). Targeting the lipid metabolism proteins FASN and GPAM in alveolar type II cells decreases lung metastasis. Cancer Discovery.

2025

Kuo, M., Lê Cao, K.-A., Kodikara, S.*, Mao, J.*, Sankaran, K.* (2025). phylobar: an R package for multiresolution compositional barplots in omics studies. Bioinformatics.

Zhang, X., Mao, J.* & Lê Cao, K.-A.* (2025). CellDiffusion: a generative model to annotate single-cell and spatial RNA-seq using bulk references. bioRxiv.

2024

Mao, J., Deng, Y. & Lê Cao, K.-A. (2024). Φ-Space: Continuous phenotyping of single-cell multi-omics data. Genome Biology.

Deng, Y., Mao, J.*, Choi, J.* & Lê Cao, K-A.* (2024). StableMate: a statistical method to select stable predictors in omics data. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics.

Under Review

Hesse S., Mao J., Hadziahmetovic A., Offensperger F., Rojas Ringeling F., Monteagudo-Mesas P., Frauenstein A., Canzar S., Meissner F., Zimmer R., Lê Cao K.-A., Klein C. (Under Review). A molecular atlas of human granulopoiesis. [Under review at Nature Communications] Atlas website

Camirand-Lemyre, F.*, Delaigle, A.* and Mao, J.* (Under Review). Nonparametric regression esti- mation for streaming data. [Under review at Biometrika]

Thesis

Mao, J. (2020). Nonparametric estimation for streaming data. PhD Thesis