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Ken Lau

Department of Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB)
Epithelial Biology Center (EBC)
Center for Quantitative Sciences (CQS)
Vanderbilt Digestive Diseases Research Center (VDDRC)
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC)
Vanderbilt Center for Stem Cell Biology (VCSCB)
Program in Developmental Biology (PDB)
Chemical and Physical Biology Program (CPB)


The Lau lab considers every one of the 30 plus trillion cells in the body to be unique, thus, utilizes state-of-the art technologies to profile tissues at the single-cell resolution. Resulting “big data” consisting of thousands of data points and dimensions are analyzed by data science-driven computational techniques.

The Lau lab considers every one of the 30 plus trillion cells in the body to be unique, thus, utilizes state-of-the art technologies to profile tissues at the single-cell resolution. Resulting “big data” consisting of thousands of data points and dimensions are analyzed by data science-driven computational techniques.

Keywords: single-cell biology , algorithms , data science , colon cancer , stem cells , transcriptomics

Research Area: Computational and Systems Biology , Stem Cell Biology & Regeneration , Epithelial Biology , Gene Regulation , Genomics , Molecular Pathology , Neurodegeneration and Neuroinflamation , Developmental Neuroscience , Developmental Biology