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The Benos’ Lab has now moved to the University of Florida!

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We are a diverse, interdisciplinary team who likes to tackle important questions in systems medicine by developing and using novel machine learning algorithms. Our ultimate goal is to identify risk factors and mechanisms affecting aging and contributing to the onset and progression of chronic diseases and cancer.  We also develop predictive methods and tools that can directly improve health.  We use probabilistic graphical models and other machine learning methods to integrate and mine high-dimensional, multi-modal biomedical data and to investigate biological processes pertinent to health and disease.

Representative Recent Publications

  1. T. Cruz†, M. Jia†, J.C. Sembrat, T. Tabib, D.A.A. Vignali, P. Sanchez, R. Lafyatis, A.L. Mora, P. Benos, M. Rojas, “Reduced Proportion and Activity of Natural Killer Cells in the Lung of Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis”, Am J Resp Crit Care Med (2021) 204:608-610. [Abstract] [Article]   †equal contribution
  2. E. Valenzi, H. Yang, J.C. Sembrat, L. Yang, S. Winters, R. Nettles, D.J. Kass, S. Qin, X. Wang, M. Myerburg, B. Methe, A. Fitch, J. Alder, P.V. Benos, B.J. McVerry, M. Rojas, A. Morris, G.D. Kitsios, “Topographic Heterogeneity of Lung Microbiota in End-Stage Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: The Microbiome in Lung Explants-2 (MiLEs-2) Study”,   Thorax (2021) 76:239-247. [Abstract] [Article]  [medRxiv]
  3. X. Ge†, V.K. Raghu†, P.K. Chrysanthis, P.V. Benos, “CausalMGM: an interactive web-based causal discovery tool”,   Nucleic Acids Research (2020) 48(W1):W597-W602. [Abstract] [Article]  [Web tool]   †equal contribution
  4. K.L. Buschur, M. Chikina, P.V. Benos, “Causal network perturbations for instance-specific analysis of single cell and disease samples”,   Bioinformatics (2020) 36:2515–2521. [Abstract] [Article] [PMC version]
  5. V.K. Raghu, W. Zhao, J. Pu, J.K. Leader, R. Wang, J. Herman, J.-M. Yuan, P.V. Benos*, D.O. Wilson, “Feasibility of lung cancer prediction from low-dose CT scan and smoking factors using causal models”,   Thorax (2019) 74:643-649. [Abstract]  [Article]  [PMC version]  *corresponding author