Publications

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

2026

Camirand-Lemyre, F.*, Delaigle, A.* & Mao, J. * (To Appear). Blockwise dynamic selection of smoothing parameters for kernel estimators of nonstationary densities of streaming data. Biometrika.

Kodikara, S.*, Mao, J.*, San Valentin, E. M. D., Do, K.-A., Reyes-Gibby, C. & Lê Cao, K.-A. (2026). Oral microbial signatures of head and neck cancer patients highlight diverse longitudinal patterns of oral mucositis severity. BMC Microbiology.

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

Mu, D., …, Li, S.*, Mao, J.*. Building reliable DNA methylation classifiers for twin zygosity: a systematic pipeline leveraging multiple twin cohorts.

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

Thesis

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