Gurinder Singh Mickey Atwal Laboratory

Quantitative Biology Center
Cancer Center

Welcome to the lab website of Gurinder Singh "Mickey" Atwal.

Fueled by data generated from recent technological developments in DNA sequencing, the Atwal Lab is currently focused on population genetics, cancer biology and high-performance computing. We often tackle scientific questions computationally by invoking theoretical concepts from statistical physics and machine learning.

A common thread in our research is the quest to understand collective biological phenomena from the perspective of the physical sciences. To this end, we develop and deploy mathematical and computational tools to address quantitative principles governing the behavior of many-body biological systems, ranging from molecular interactions in a single eukaryotic cell to the evolution of the species Homo sapiens.

Our fantastic team of lab members and collaborators consists of physicists, biologists, mathematicians and computer scientists and we work closely with experimentalists and clinicians both here at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and around the world. For more details feel free to browse through our website.

News and Events

Program Committee of the 10th IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS). December 4 - 6, 2011.

Chengyu Liu and Robert Aboukhalil join the lab for the summer of 2011, analyzing gene copy number profiles of tumors.

New paper published in Cancer Cell identifying a gene, PHLPP1, as a prostate tumor suppressor.
Co-organizing 9th IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS). Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, November 10 - 12, 2010. Announcement.

Dr. Atwal named by Genome Technology as one of the top 25 young investigators in systems biology. See the profile article here, detailing research on developing new computational algorithms to detect genetic variants important in cancer risk and progression.