Jeremy Wang

Jeremy Wang, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics at the UNC School of Medicine. His research focuses on applying high-performance computational methods and machine learning to analyze high-throughput sequence data using long-read technologies (e.g., Oxford Nanopore) to advance precision personalized medicine. Key disease areas include

• Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD)
• Respiratory Infectious Diseases

His lab specializes in microbiome analysis, host-pathogen interactions, and computational genomics, working with collaborators in clinical, translational, and computational domains.

His publications demonstrate expertise in long-read sequencing applications for

• Pediatric cancer classification
• SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology
• Microbiome spatiotemporal dynamics
• Murine disease models
• Drosophilid genome assemblies
• Metagenomic bias analysis

Collaborations span UNC and global institutions, with current work extending to clinical laboratory partnerships for pathogen sequencing and oral microbiome sampling methodology.