Dr. Justin Whalley, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics, with experience in finding the quintessential features in large, multi-layered 'omic datasets.

North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Research Expertise

Genomics
Bioinformatics
Immunity
Tensor decomposition
Cancer
Cancer Research
Oncology
Genetics
Immunology and Allergy
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Molecular Biology
Modeling and Simulation
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Genetics (clinical)
Molecular Medicine
Biotechnology

About

Dr. Justin P. Whalley was educated in the UK (M.Sci. Mathematics, University of Bristol) and France (Ph.D. Bioinformatics, University of Évry). He moved to Spain to work as a postdoc at the National Center for Genomic Analysis (CNAG). During his time there, he ran the Quality Control working group for the Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes project to assess the data coming in and reduce batch effects. This involved collaboration with researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the German Cancer Research Center and the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the UK. He returned to the UK to work as a [Senior Bioinformatician at the University of Oxford](https://www.well.ox.ac.uk/people/jpw/). His time there coincided with the global pandemic and he was deeply involved in the COvid-19 Multi-omics Blood ATlas (COMBAT) consortium as the lead for the Integration (Tensor) working group. Dr. Whalley became a member of the [faculty of the Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science](https://www.rosalindfranklin.edu/academics/faculty/justin-p-whalley/) in January 2023.

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Publications

The Repertoire of Mutational Signatures in Human Cancer
Unknown Venue
2018
Cancer Gets a Global Genomic Map: The Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes incorporated 2,658 whole genomes, 38 tumor types, 1,188 transcriptomes, and 1,300 scientists from 37 countries
Clinical OMICs
2020
TrackSig: reconstructing evolutionary trajectories of mutations in cancer
Unknown Venue
2018
Patterns of structural variation in human cancer
Unknown Venue
2017
Abstract LB-378: Comprehensive analysis of chromothripsis in 2,658 human cancers using whole-genome sequencing
Cancer Research
2018
The whole-genome panorama of cancer drivers
Unknown Venue
2017
Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes reveals driver rearrangements promoted by LINE-1 retrotransposition in human tumours
Unknown Venue
2017
The landscape of viral associations in human cancers
Unknown Venue
2018
Genomic basis for RNA alterations revealed by whole-genome analyses of 27 cancer types
Unknown Venue
2017
Publisher Correction: Comprehensive molecular characterization of mitochondrial genomes in human cancers
Nature Genetics
2020
Spatial Genome Organization as a Framework for Somatic Alterations in Human Cancer
Unknown Venue
2017
A deep learning system can accurately classify primary and metastatic cancers based on patterns of passenger mutations
Unknown Venue
2017
Unique genomic features and deeply-conserved functions of long non-coding RNAs in the Cancer LncRNA Census (CLC)
Unknown Venue
2017
Integrative pathway enrichment analysis of multivariate omics data
Unknown Venue
2018
ABO blood group association and COVID-19. COVID-19 susceptibility and severity: a review
Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy
2022
Genomic footprints of activated telomere maintenance mechanisms in cancer
Unknown Venue
2017
Divergent mutational processes distinguish hypoxic and normoxic tumours
Unknown Venue
2019
Pathway and network analysis of more than 2,500 whole cancer genomes
Unknown Venue
2018
Sex Differences in Oncogenic Mutational Processes
Unknown Venue
2019
Whole genome and RNA sequencing of 1,220 cancers reveals hundreds of genes deregulated by rearrangement of cis-regulatory elements
Unknown Venue
2017
DriverPower: Combined burden and functional impact tests for cancer driver discovery
Unknown Venue
2017
Accelerated somatic mutation calling for whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing data from heterogenous tumor samples
Unknown Venue
2023
SVclone: inferring structural variant cancer cell fraction
Unknown Venue
2017
Enabling rapid cloud-based analysis of thousands of human genomes via Butler
Unknown Venue
2017
Constructing custom-made radiotranscriptomic signatures from CT angiograms: an application in COVID-19 vascular inflammation
European Heart Journal
2022
Mapping the epigenomic landscape of human monocytes following innate immune activation reveals context-specific mechanisms driving endotoxin tolerance
BMC Genomics
2023
Genetic Manipulation of Animals for Modeling Disease and Investigating Gene Function
Human Molecular Genetics
2018
SARS-CoV-2 infection induces a long-lived pro-inflammatory transcriptional profile
Genome Medicine
2023
A Transcriptomic Approach to Understand Patient Susceptibility to Pneumonia After Abdominal Surgery
Annals of Surgery
2023
A transcriptomic approach to understand patient susceptibility to pneumonia after abdominal surgery
Unknown Venue
2023
Unbiased single cell spatial analysis localises inflammatory clusters of immature neutrophils-CD8 T cells to alveolar progenitor cells in fatal COVID-19 lungs
Unknown Venue
2022
Coronavirus disease 2019 subphenotypes and differential treatment response to convalescent plasma in critically ill adults: secondary analyses of a randomized clinical trial
Intensive Care Medicine
2022
High-throughput mass spectrometry maps the sepsis plasma proteome and differences in response
Unknown Venue
2022
Constructing custom-made radiotranscriptomic signatures of vascular inflammation from routine CT angiograms: a prospective outcomes validation study in COVID-19
The Lancet Digital Health
2022
Natural Killer cells demonstrate distinct eQTL and transcriptome-wide disease associations, highlighting their role in autoimmunity
Nature Communications
2022
Epigenomic analysis reveals a dynamic and context-specific macrophage enhancer landscape associated with innate immune activation and tolerance
Genome Biology
2022
A blood atlas of COVID-19 defines hallmarks of disease severity and specificity
Cell
2022
Using de novo assembly to identify structural variation of eight complex immune system gene regions
PLOS Computational Biology
2021
A blood atlas of COVID-19 defines hallmarks of disease severity and specificity
Unknown Venue
2021
Natural Killer cells demonstrate distinct eQTL and transcriptome-wide disease associations, highlighting their role in autoimmunity
Unknown Venue
2021
Genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9-knockout in human induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC)-derived macrophages
Scientific Reports
2021
Using de novo assembly to identify structural variation of complex immune system gene regions
Unknown Venue
2021
Framework for quality assessment of whole genome cancer sequences
Nature Communications
2020
Retrospective evaluation of whole exome and genome mutation calls in 746 cancer samples
Nature Communications
2020
Sex differences in oncogenic mutational processes
Nature Communications
2020
Comprehensive analysis of chromothripsis in 2,658 human cancers using whole-genome sequencing
Nature Genetics
2020
Comprehensive molecular characterization of mitochondrial genomes in human cancers
Nature Genetics
2020
Disruption of chromatin folding domains by somatic genomic rearrangements in human cancer
Nature Genetics
2020
Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes identifies driver rearrangements promoted by LINE-1 retrotransposition
Nature Genetics
2020
Butler enables rapid cloud-based analysis of thousands of human genomes
Nature Biotechnology
2020
The landscape of viral associations in human cancers
Nature Genetics
2020
The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers
Nature
2020
A deep learning system accurately classifies primary and metastatic cancers using passenger mutation patterns
Nature Communications
2020
Analyses of non-coding somatic drivers in 2,658 cancer whole genomes
Nature
2020
Cancer LncRNA Census reveals evidence for deep functional conservation of long noncoding RNAs in tumorigenesis
Communications Biology
2020
Combined burden and functional impact tests for cancer driver discovery using DriverPower
Nature Communications
2020
Divergent mutational processes distinguish hypoxic and normoxic tumours
Nature Communications
2020
Genomic basis for RNA alterations in cancer
Nature
2020
Genomic footprints of activated telomere maintenance mechanisms in cancer
Nature Communications
2020
High-coverage whole-genome analysis of 1220 cancers reveals hundreds of genes deregulated by rearrangement-mediated cis-regulatory alterations
Nature Communications
2020
Inferring structural variant cancer cell fraction
Nature Communications
2020
Integrative pathway enrichment analysis of multivariate omics data
Nature Communications
2020
Pathway and network analysis of more than 2500 whole cancer genomes
Nature Communications
2020
Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes
Nature
2020
Reconstructing evolutionary trajectories of mutation signature activities in cancer using TrackSig
Nature Communications
2020
The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer
Nature
2020
Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes
Nature
2020
Recurrent somatic mutations reveal new insights into consequences of mutagenic processes in cancer
PLOS Computational Biology
2019
Framework for quality assessment of whole genome, cancer sequences
Unknown Venue
2017

Education

Université d'Évry Val-d'Essonne

Ph.D., Bioinformatics / May, 2015

Évry

University of Bristol

M.Sci., Mathematics / June, 2008

Bristol

Experience

University of Oxford

Senior Bioinformatician / 20172022

Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science Chicago Medical School

Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics / 2023Present

CNAG

Postdoctoral Researcher / 20142017

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