Natalie Kokroko | Treangen lab at Rice University

Natalie (2nd year PhD student, Computer Science) obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Biomedical engineering at the University of Ghana in November, 2021. She is currently a 2nd year PhD student at the RICE University in the Computer Science Program. She hopes to make use of computational tools and algorithms to interpret and analyze clinical and environmental microbiome data. Generally, Natalie is interested in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Genomics and Metagenomic data analysis. Natalie’s research is funded by the Computer Science Department support and the NIH NIA(R56AG080920).

In her free time, she loves to play tennis and watch movies with a big bowl of ice-cream. Dogs are her favorite.

A few of Natalie’s recent publications: (Amaral et al., 2024; Sapoval et al., 2024).

References

2024

Probiotic therapy modulates the brain-gut-liver microbiota axis in a mouse model of traumatic brain injury

Wellington Z Amaral, Natalie Kokroko, Todd J Treangen, and 2 more authors

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Basis of Disease, 2024

Lightweight taxonomic profiling of long-read sequenced metagenomes with Lemur and Magnet

Nicolae Sapoval, Yunxi Liu, Kristen Curry, and 8 more authors

bioRxiv, 2024

Bib

@article{sapoval2024lightweight,
  title = {Lightweight taxonomic profiling of long-read sequenced metagenomes with Lemur and Magnet},
  author = {Sapoval, Nicolae and Liu, Yunxi and Curry, Kristen and Kille, Bryce and Huang, Wenyu and Kokroko, Natalie and Nute, Michael G and Tyshaieva, Alona and Dilthey, Alexander T and Molloy, Erin and others},
  year = {2024},
  journal = {bioRxiv},
  publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory},
  pages = {2024--06}
}