Nick Stoler

Ph.D. student

My focus is on variation in mitochondrial DNA. I develop methods and software tools to analyze mitochondrial sequencing data, as well as data from other non-diploid systems like viral populations, cancer, and somatic variation.

Publications

Edmundo Torres-González, Barbara Arbeithuber, Nick Stoler, Marzia Cremona, O Shebl, T Ebner, I Tiemann-Boege, F Diaz, Francesca Chiaromonte, Kateryna Makova, Ph.D. (2026). Mammalian Mitochondrial DNA Accumulates Insertions and Deletions with Age in Energetically Demanding Tissues. MOL BIOL EVOL.

Paper Link Mitochondrial

Matthias Weissensteiner, Marzia Cremona, Wilfried Guiblet, Nick Stoler, Robert Harris, Monika Cechova (Michalovova), Kristin Eckert, Francesca Chiaromonte, YF Huang, Kateryna Makova, Ph.D. (2023). Accurate sequencing of DNA motifs able to form alternative (non-B) structures. GENOME RES.

Paper Link Non-B DNA & Microsatellite

Barbara Arbeithuber, J Hester, Marzia Cremona, Nick Stoler, A Zaidi, B Higgins, Kate Anthony, Francesca Chiaromonte, Francisco J. Diaz, Kateryna Makova, Ph.D. (2020). Age-related accumulation of de novo mitochondrial mutations in mammalian oocytes and somatic tissues. PLOS BIOL.

Paper Link Mitochondrial

Nick Stoler, Barbara Arbeithuber, G Povysil, M Heinzl, R Salazar, Kateryna Makova, Ph.D., I Tiemann-Boege, Anton Nekrutenko (2020). Family reunion via error correction: an efficient analysis of duplex sequencing data. BMC BIOINFORMATICS.

Code Paper Link Mitochondrial Non-B DNA & Microsatellite

Nick Stoler, Barbara Arbeithuber, Wilfried Guiblet, Kateryna Makova, Ph.D., Anton Nekrutenko (2016). Streamlined analysis of duplex sequencing data with Du Novo. GENOME BIOL.

Paper Link Mitochondrial

Boris Rebolledo-Jaramillo, Marcia Shu-Wei Su, Nick Stoler, JA McElhoe, Benjamin Dickins, D Blankenberg, TS Korneliussen, Francesca Chiaromonte, Rasmus Nielsen, Mitchell M. Holland, Ian Paul, Anton Nekrutenko, Kateryna Makova, Ph.D. (2014). Maternal age effect and severe germ-line bottleneck in the inheritance of human mitochondrial DNA. P NATL ACAD SCI USA.

Paper Link Mitochondrial

Benjamin Dickins, Boris Rebolledo-Jaramillo, Marcia Shu-Wei Su, Ian Paul, D Blankenberg, Nick Stoler, Kateryna Makova, Ph.D., Anton Nekrutenko (2014). Controlling for contamination in re-sequencing studies with a reproducible web-based phylogenetic approach. BIOTECHNIQUES.

Paper Link Mitochondrial