Faculty

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Pablo G Cámara, PhD

Associate Professor of Genetics

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Department: Genetics

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D105 Richards Building
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Philadelphia, PA 19104-6145

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Email:
pcamara@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

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13 Education:
21 7 BS 20 (Theoretical Physics) c
3e Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, 2002.
21 8 PhD 20 (Theoretical Physics) c
3e Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, 2006.
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Description of Research Expertise

35e Research in the Camara lab is focused on the development and application of innovative computational approaches to the study of cellular heterogeneity and its role in disease. To this end, we draw ideas from topology, geometry, statistics, physics, and computer science. Combining these approaches with the use of high-throughput single-cell technologies and large-scale population studies, we aim to achieve a better understanding of the cellular composition and cell-to-cell signaling networks of tumors in relation to their genomes. We are particularly interested in deciphering the cellular ecosystem and heterotypic signaling networks of tumors of the central nervous system, both in adults and children; however, we expect our methods to be of utility to a broader community and collaborate with groups working in related areas of research.
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Selected Publications

138 Zoga, K., Villiere, S., Tikiyani, V., Edwards-Cintron, F., Thokachichu, P., Nicodemus, P., Camara, P. G., Hart, M. P.: Multiple autism genes influence GABA neuron remodeling via distinct developmental trajectories. Genetics(iyaf156), 2025.

1bb Noller, K., Botsis, T., Camara, P. G., Ciotti, L., Cooper, L. A., Goecks, J., Griffith, M., Haas, B. J., Ideker, T., Karchin, R., Kontos, D., Lai, J., Marcus, D., Meyer, C. A., Naegle, K., Pati, S., Peters, B., Pratt, D., Raphael, B. J., Reich, M., Savova, G. K., Wright, C., Fertig, E. J., Bakas S.: Informatics at the frontier of cancer research. Cancer Research 2025.

c6 Camara, P. G.: Quantum information in Riemannian spaces. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 58: 225304, 2025.

124 Aubin, R. G., Montelongo, J., Hu, R., Gunther, E., Nicodemus, P., Camara, P. G.: Clustering-independent estimation of cell abundances in bulk tissues using single-cell RNA-seq data. Cell Reports Methods 4: 100905, 2024.

1d8 Bai, Z., Feng, B., McClory, S. E., Coutinho de Oliveira, B., Diorio, C., Gregoire, C., Tao, B., Yang, L., Zhao, Z., Peng, L., Sferruzza, G., Zhou, L., Zhou, X., Kerr, J., Baysoy, A., Su, G., Yang, M., Camara, P. G., Chen, S., Tang, L.*, June, C. H.*, Melenhorst, J. J.*, Grupp, S. A.*, Fan, R.*: Single-cell CAR T atlas reveals type2 function in 8-year leukemia remission. Nature 634: 702-711, 2024.

143 Govek, K. W., Nicodemus, P., Lin, Y., Crawford, J., Saturnino, A. B., Cui, H., Zoga, K., Hart, M. P., Camara, P. G.: CAJAL enables analysis and integration of single-cell morphological data using metric geometry. Nature Communications 14: 3672, 2023.

219 Bai, Z.*, Woodhouse, S.*, Zhao, Z., Arya, R., Govek, K., Kim, D., Lundh, S., Baysoy, A., Sun, H., Deng, Y., Xiao, Y., Barrett, D. M., Myers, R. M., Grupp, S. A., June, C. H., Fan, R.#, Camara, P. G.#, Melenhorst, J. J.#: Single-cell antigen-specific activation landscape of CAR T infusion product identifies determinants of CD19-positive relapse in patients with ALL. Science Advances 8: eabj2820, 2022 Notes: #corresponding authors. *authors contributed equally.

1da Govek, K. W., Crawford, J., Saturnino, A. B., Zoga, K., Hart, M. P., Camara, P. G.: A computational framework for the combined morphometric, transcriptomic, and physiological analysis of cells using metric geometry. 30th Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB2022) 2022 Notes: Abstract selected for a poster presentation by Kiya Govek at ISMB2022, July 10-14, 2022, Madison, WI.

16b Govek KW, Chen S, Sgourdou P, Yao Y, Woodhouse S, Chen T, Fuccillo MV, Epstein DJ, Camara PG: Developmental trajectories of thalamic progenitors revealed by single-cell transcriptome profiling and Shh perturbation. Cell Reports 41(10): 111768, 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111768.

152 Aubin, R.*, Troisi, E. C.*, Montelongo, J., Alghalith, A. N., Nasrallah, M. P., Santi, M., Camara, P. G.: Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines Mediate the Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal-Like Transition of Pediatric Posterior Fossa Ependymoma. Nature Communications 13: 3936, 2022.

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