2026 · Teaching Statistics

Actionable visualization principles and guidance for a foundational university data science course

David C. Sterratt, Narjes Rohani, Kobi Gal

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2026 · bioRxiv

Spatial transcriptomics implicates the thalamus and cortex in autism and schizophrenia

David M. Young, Ruchira Sharma, Narjes Rohani, Chimmi Dema, Lindsay Liang, Bernie Devlin, Devanand S. Manoli, Stephan J. Sanders

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2026 · bioRxiv

Spatiotemporal analysis of autism gene enrichment implicates cortex, thalamus, and hypothalamus

Xuran Wang, Yue Li, David M. Young, Alicia Ljungdahl, Chimmi Dema, Narjes Rohani, Tomasz J. Nowakowski, Kathryn Roeder, Stephan J. Sanders

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2026 · Genome Medicine · accepted

Modifying splicing in 5'UTRs to increase translation as a therapeutic approach for multiple rare haploinsufficient disorders

Eloise S. Beer Wells, Laura De Conti, Hyung Chul Kim, Narjes Rohani, Kartik Chundru, Laura M. Watts, Ruebena Dawes, Yuyang Chen, Alexandra C. Martin-Geary, Michael J. Griffiths, Sam Scott, Rosemary A. Bamford, Jonathan Mill, Caroline F. Wright, Marco Baralle, Stephan J. Sanders, Nicola Whiffin

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2026 · bioRxiv

Molecular dynamics of Brodmann Area 22 in development and autism

Varun Suresh, Emilie M. Wigdor, Yuhan Hao, Rachel Leonard, Joseph Asfouri, Michael Griffiths, Clements Evans, Guohua Yuan, Narjes Rohani, Jakob Weiss, Chimmi Dema, Tanzila Mukthar, Frederik H. Lassen, Nicole Schafer, Shan Dong, Duncan Palmer, Edward Chang, Stephan J. Sanders, Tomasz J. Nowakowski

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2026 · Nature · accepted

Genome-scale functional mapping of the mammalian whole brain with in vivo Perturb-seq

Tuo Shi, Maria Korshunova, Seoyeon Kim, David DeTomaso, Xinhe Zheng, Lavanya Vishvanath, Thokozile Nyasulu, Nhan Huynh, Alexander Sun, Patrick C. Thompson, Yifan Zhang, Emilie M. Wigdor, Narjes Rohani, Salma Ali, Huixian Qiu, Michael Geralt, Ziyan Zhao, Sara Rabhi, Zizhen Yao, Cindy Tj van Velthoven, Joseph R. Nery, Rosa Gomez Castanon, Severin Dicks, Tiffany J. Chen, Joseph R. Ecker, Hongkui Zeng, Grace Xy Zheng, Stephan J. Sanders, Laksshman Sundaram, Xin Jin

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2025 · Nature · accepted

A Retinoic Acid Autoregulatory Loop Governing Prefrontal-Motor Arealization

Lin Yang, Mikihito Shibata, Saejeong Park, Yuting Liu, Iva Salamon, Jia Liu, Suel-Kee Kim, Akemi Shibata, Ashley Deveau-French, Xoel Mato Blanco, Suxia Bai, Timothy Nottoli, Xiaojun Xing, Narjes Rohani, Stephan J. Sanders, Rothem Kovner, Kartik Pattabiraman, Nenad Sestan

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2025 · bioRxiv

Modulating splicing in 5’untranslated regions to treat rare haploinsufficient disease

Eloise S. Beer Wells, Laura De Conti, Hyung Chul Kim, Narjes Rohani, Kartik Chundru, Laura M. Watts, Ruebena Dawes, Yuyang Chen, Alexandra C. Martin-Geary, Michael J. Griffiths, Sam Scott, Rosemary A. Bamford, Jonathan Mill, Caroline F. Wright, Marco Baralle, Stephan J. Sanders, Nicola Whiffin

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2025 · bioRxiv

Disruption of cell-type-specific molecular programs of medium spiny neurons in autism

Guohua Yuan, Varun Suresh, Emilie M. Wigdor, Yuhan Hao, Rachel Leonard, Marilyn Steyert, Michael Griffiths, Clements Evans, Narjes Rohani, Jakob Weiss, Frederik H. Lassen, Nicole Schafer, Shan Dong, Duncan S. Palmer, Stephan J. Sanders, Tomasz J. Nowakowski

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2025 · Research Square preprint

Tracing the evolutionary trajectory of CDK4/6 inhibitor resistance in oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer

Ioanna Mavrommati, Tabitha Branston, Fatemeh Ahmadi Moughari, Shefali Thakur, Frederick J. H. Whiting, Yu Zhang, Riccardo Ferro, Ekaterina Izmailova, Narjes Rohani, Harriet Kemp, Gareth Muirhead, Dhrusti Patel, Lesly-Ann Martin, Andrew A. N. J. Tutt, Trevor A. Graham, Syed Haider, Rachael Natrajan

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2024 · BMC Medical Education

Providing insights into health data science education through artificial intelligence

Narjes Rohani, Kobi Gal, Michael Gallagher, Areti Manataki

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2024 · Journal of Educational Data Mining

ClickTree: A Tree-based Method for Predicting Math Students’ Performance Based on Clickstream Data

Narjes Rohani, Behnam Rohani, Areti Manataki

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2024 · bioRxiv

Insights into Health Data Science Education: A Qualitative Content Analysis

Narjes Rohani, Michael Gallagher, Kobi Gal, Areti Manataki

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2024 · Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Self-reported learning strategies and preferences in health informatics

Narjes Rohani, Michael Gallagher, Kobi Gal, Kasia Banas, Areti Manataki

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2024 · Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Education Challenges Among Early Career Researchers in Medical Informatics

Narjes Rohani, Michael Gallagher, Kobi Gal, Areti Manataki

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2024 · JMIR Medical Education

Identifying learning preferences and strategies in health data science courses: systematic review

Narjes Rohani, Stephen Sowa, Areti Manataki

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2024 · bioRxiv

Providing Insights into Health Data Science Education through Artificial Intelligence

Narjes Rohani, Kobi Gal, Michael Gallagher, Areti Manataki

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2023 · Educational Data Mining

Early Prediction of Student Performance in a Health Data Science MOOC

Narjes Rohani, Kobi Gal, Michael Gallagher, Areti Manataki

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2022 · Process Mining Workshops

Discovering students’ learning strategies in a visual programming MOOC through process mining techniques

Narjes Rohani, Kobi Gal, Michael Gallagher, Areti Manataki

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2021 · PeerJ

DisCoVering potential candidates of RNAi-based therapy for COVID-19 using computational methods

Narjes Rohani, Fatemeh Ahmadi Moughari, Changiz Eslahchi

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2020 · Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics

ISCMF: Integrated similarity-constrained matrix factorization for drug-drug interaction prediction

Narjes Rohani, Changiz Eslahchi, Amir Katanforoush

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2020 · Frontiers in Genetics

Classifying breast cancer molecular subtypes by using deep clustering approach

Narjes Rohani, Changiz Eslahchi

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2019 · Scientific Reports

Drug-Drug Interaction Predicting by Neural Network Using Integrated Similarity

Narjes Rohani, Changiz Eslahchi

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Background Information: Learning Inventories

Narjes Rohani, Stephen Sowa, Areti Manataki

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Education Challenges among Early Career Researchers in Medical Informatics and Perceived Value of Personalised Learning: A Qualitative Content Analysis

Narjes Rohani, Michael Gallagher, Kobi Gal, Areti Manataki

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