Sergio E. Mares

sergio [dot] mares [at] berkeley [dot] edu

Hello! I am a fourth year Computational Biology Ph.D Candidate at UC Berkeley, advised by Professor Nilah Ioannidis at the Center for Computational Biology and Professor Joseph Costello at the UCSF Neurosurgery Department.

I have a B.S in Biochemistry and a B.S in Microbiology/Cell and Molecular Biology with minors in Chemistry, Plant Biology, and Spanish from Oklahoma State University, where I was advised by Professor Marianna Patrauchan at the Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Department, where I worked on the conservation of calcium signalling proteins in pathogenic microbes.

Previously, I have also worked with Professor Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga at the University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras, improving assembly algorithms for detecting sparse microbial populations in metagenomic datasets.

I am broadly interested in the intersection between cancer genetics, deep learning models, and the improvement of current therapeutic strategies in cancer. Some of my current work focuses on benchmarking and generating new models for identifying novel molecular immunotherapuetic targets against brain tumors.

publications

  1. Sergio E. Mares, M. King, A. Kubo, A. Khavov, E. Lutter, N. Youssef, M. Patrauchan
    Journal of Microbiology 2020
  2. Biraj B. Kayastha, A. Kubo, J. Burch-Konda, R. L. Dohmen, J. L. McCoy, R. R. Rogers, Sergio E. Mares, J. Bevere, A. Huckaby, W. Witt, S. Peng, B. Chaudhary, S. Mohanty, M. Barbier, G. Cook, J. Deng, M. Patrauchan
    Nature Scientific Reports 2022
  3. Domokos I. Lauko, Taro Ohkawa, Sergio E. Mares, Matthew D. Welch
    Molecular Biology of the Cell 2021
  4. Chelsea L. Murphy, R. Yang, T. Decker, C. Cavalliere, V. Andreev, N. Bircher, J.Cornell, R. Dohmen, C. J. Pratt, A. Grinnell, J. Higgs, C. Jett, E. Gillett, R. Khadka, Sergio E. Mares, C. Meili, J. Liu, H. Mukhtar, Mostafa S. Elshahed, Noha H. Youssef
    Environmental Microbiology 2021