Research Interests
Keywords: Statistical modeling of functional genomics data, bulk and single cell RNA-seq analysis, multi-modal data analysis, QTL and GWAS integration
Dr. Love’s research concerns statistical and computational methods for the analysis of high-throughput sequencing assays to facilitate biomedical and biological research. He has developed a number of open source software packages for the analysis of RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data, including the DESeq2 package for differential gene expression analysis. In addition, he studies the effect of lab-to-lab variation on computational estimation of gene isoform abundances from RNA-seq, and has developed statistical methods for accurate estimation of isoform abundance in the presence of common technical biases.
Mentor Training:
Training Program Affiliations:
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- Biostatistics
Publications
Michael Love in UNC Genetics News

November 5, 2025
Department of Genetics Publications for October 2025
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 40 papers in October 2025.

May 9, 2025
Department of Genetics Publications for March 30th – April 26th, 2025
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 25 papers during March 30th - April 26th 2025.

April 20, 2025
Department of Genetics Publications for March 2nd – 29th, 2025
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 30 papers during March 2nd - 29th 2025.

March 20, 2025
Michael Love Awarded R01 Renewal from NHGRI
Dr. Michael Love (Associate Professor, Genetics and Biostatistics) had a successful competitive renewal of his R01 grant titled “A modular framework for accurate, interpretable, and reproducible analysis of long read RNA-seq data” from NHGRI.

March 3, 2025
Department of Genetics Publications for February 2nd – March 1st, 2025
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 18 papers during February 2nd - March 1st 2025.

January 20, 2025
Department of Genetics Publications for January 5th – 18th, 2025
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 18 papers during January 5th - 18th, 2025.

January 6, 2025
Department of Genetics Publications for December 22nd, 2024 – January 4th, 2025
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 11 papers during December 22nd, 2024 - January 4th, 2025.

October 17, 2024
Department of Genetics Publications for September 29th – October 12th, 2024
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 13 papers during September 29th - October 12th, 2024.

September 14, 2024
Department of Genetics Publications for September 1st-14th, 2024
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 23 papers during September 1st - 14th, 2024.

September 1, 2024
Department of Genetics Publications for August 18th – 31st, 2024
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 18 papers during August 18th - 31st 2024.
