scBay · Software
An R package for trajectory inference with honest uncertainty. 40k downloads.
Code & data →Dr. Priya Raman
Assistant Professor of Computational Biology
Recruiting two PhD students for 2026
My lab builds statistical methods for single-cell data, with a focus on cell-fate decisions in early development.
Before Edinburgh I was a postdoc at the Broad Institute and did my PhD at Cambridge. I care about reproducible methods, open data and kind lab culture.
News
- 2025Wellcome Career Development Award — £1.6M, 2025–2030
Selected publications
Fate decisions are made earlier than lineage markers suggest
Raman P, Okoye J, Lindqvist A. Nature Methods 21, 1102–1110 (2024)
scBay: calibrated uncertainty for single-cell trajectories
Raman P, Chen W. Genome Biology 24:188 (2023)
Batch effects masquerading as biology
Raman P, et al. Cell Systems 13(4) (2022)
A note on pseudotime and its discontents
Raman P. Bioinformatics 37(12) (2021)
Research & software
Embryo Atlas · Dataset
Single-cell profiles of 180,000 cells across six days of mouse development, openly licensed.
Join the lab
- PhD positions. Two funded places for 2026. Statistics or biology backgrounds welcome.
- Collaborations. Happy to talk about single-cell experimental design.
Positions
- Assistant Professor, University of Edinburgh (2022–Present)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Broad Institute (2019–2022)
Education
- PhD Computational Biology, University of Cambridge (2015–2019)
- BTech Biosciences, IIT Bombay (2011–2015)