Cliff Oduor, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Research) at Brown University and a member of the Bailey Lab. His research lies at the intersection of infectious disease genomics, viral oncology, and host immunity, investigating how pathogen genetic diversity shapes cancer risk, tumor biology, and clinical outcomes.
Dr. Oduor integrates experimental and computational approaches, including long-read sequencing and single-cell RNA sequencing, to study Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) associated endemic Burkitt lymphoma. He applies related genomic workflows across other pathogens, developing scalable nanopore sequencing protocols for HPV16 and profiling Plasmodium falciparum transcriptional responses to antimalarial drug pressure. His work aims to strengthen practical genomics toolkits and provide mechanistic insight into the biology of infection driven malignancies.
| Kim IE Jr, Fola AA, Puig E, Maina TK, Hui ST, Ma H, Zuckerman K, Agwati EO, Leonetti A, Crudale R, Luftig MA, Moormann AM, Oduor C, Bailey JA. "Comparison of nanopore with illumina whole genome assemblies of the Epstein-Barr virus in Burkitt lymphoma." Scientific reports, vol. 15, no. 1, 2025, pp. 10970. |
| Bartlett A, Krejdovsky C, Yang G, Barry AP, Oduor C, Bailey JA, Moormann AM, Sato Y, Luftig MA. "Dissecting Epstein-Barr Virus Dependence Across Diverse Infected Cell Models." bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2025. |
| Kim IE Jr, Oduor C, Stamp J, Luftig MA, Moormann AM, Crawford L, Bailey JA. "Incorporation of Epstein-Barr viral variation implicates significance of Latent Membrane Protein 1 in survival prediction and prognostic subgrouping in Burkitt lymphoma." International Journal of Cancer, vol. 156, no. 11, 2025, pp. 2188-2199. |
| Chintala S, Dankoski MA, Maina TK, Oduor CI, Quist KM, Bailey JA, Katzenellenbogen RA. "Reduction of NFX1-123 and HPV 16 E6 and E7 Decreased Telomerase and CENP-F in Cervical Cancer Cell Lines." Cancers, vol. 17, no. 12, 2025. |
| Titus MK, Giesbrecht D, Oduor CI, Muthoka K, Niaré K, Crudale R, Fola AA, Hui ST, Kim IE Jr, Tonui PK, Itsura PM, Tonui R, Moormann AM, Loehrer PJ, Brown DR, Orang'o OE, Cu-Uvin S, Ermel AC, Katzenellenbogen RA, Bailey JA. "Scalable long-read nanopore HPV16 amplicon-based whole-genome sequencing." Scientific reports, vol. 15, no. 1, 2025, pp. 34892. |
| Titus MK, Giesbrecht D, Oduor CI, Muthoka K, Niaré K, Crudale R, Fola AA, Hui ST, Kim IE Jr, Tonui PK, Itsura PM, Tonui R, Moormann AM, Loehrer PJ, Brown DR, Orang'o OE, Cu-Uvin S, Ermel AC, Katzenellenbogen RA, Bailey JA. "Scalable long-read Nanopore HPV16 Amplicon-based Whole-Genome Sequencing." medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences, 2025. |
| Akinyi S, Tonui RK, Maina TK, Agwati E, Oduor CI, Njuguna FM, Keitany KK, Chepsiror D, Ayieko C, Moormann A, Kinyua AW, Forconi CS. "The Impact of Malaria-Induced Neutrophil Subset Shift and a Link to Burkitt Lymphoma." bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2025. |
| Paquette SE, Oduor CI, Gaulke A, Stefan S, Bronk P, Dafonseca V, Barulin N, Lee C, Carley R, Morrison AR, Choi BR, Bailey JA, Plavicki JS. "Loss of developmentally derived Irf8+ macrophages promotes hyperinnervation and arrhythmia in the adult zebrafish heart." bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2024. |
| Binder RA, Matta AM, Forconi CS, Oduor CI, Bedekar P, Patrone PN, Kearsley AJ, Odwar B, Batista J, Forrester SN, Leftwich HK, Cavacini LA, Moormann AM. "Minding the margins: Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 among Latinx and Black communities with optimal qualitative serological assessment tools." medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences, 2024. |
| Binder RA, Matta AM, Forconi CS, Oduor CI, Bedekar P, Patrone PN, Kearsley AJ, Odwar B, Batista J, Forrester SN, Leftwich HK, Cavacini LA, Moormann AM. "Minding the margins: Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 among Latinx and Black communities with optimal qualitative serological assessment tools." PLoS ONE, vol. 19, no. 7, 2024, pp. e0307568. |
| Oduor CI, Connelly SV, Cunningham C, Petrow I, Rustamzade N, Zuromski J, Chin DM, Nixon CP, Kurtis JD, Juliano JJ, Bailey JA. "Single cell transcriptional changes across the blood stages of artemisinin resistant K13(580Y) Plasmodium falciparum upon dihydroartemisinin exposure." bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2024. |
| Oluoch PO, Forconi CS, Oduor CI, Ritacco DA, Akala HM, Bailey JA, Juliano JJ, Ong'echa JM, Münz C, Moormann AM. "Distinctive Kaposi Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Serological Profile during Acute Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Episodes." International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol. 24, no. 7, 2023. |
| Saikumar Lakshmi P, Oduor CI, Forconi CS, M'Bana V, Bly C, Gerstein RM, Otieno JA, Ong'echa JM, Münz C, Luftig MA, Brehm MA, Bailey JA, Moormann AM. "Endemic Burkitt lymphoma avatar mouse models for exploring inter-patient tumor variation and testing targeted therapies." Life science alliance, vol. 6, no. 5, 2023. |
| Jenike AE, Bunkelman B, Perzel Mandell KA, Oduor CI, Chin D, Mair D, Jenike KM, Kim DH, Bailey JA, Rafailovich MH, Rosenberg AZ, Halushka MK. "Expression Microdissection for the Analysis of miRNA in a Single-Cell Type." Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology, vol. 103, no. 7, 2023, pp. 100133. |
| Willard KA, Barry AP, Oduor CI, Ong'echa JM, Bailey JA, Moormann AM, Luftig MA. "Viral and host factors drive a type 1 Epstein-Barr virus spontaneous lytic phenotype." mBio, vol. 14, no. 6, 2023, pp. e0220423. |
| Agwati EO, Oduor CI, Ayieko C, Ong'echa JM, Moormann AM, Bailey JA. "Profiling genome-wide recombination in Epstein Barr virus reveals type-specific patterns and associations with endemic-Burkitt lymphoma." Virology Journal, vol. 19, no. 1, 2022, pp. 208. |
| Forconi CS, Oduor CI, Oluoch PO, Ong'echa JM, Münz C, Bailey JA, Moormann AM. "A New Hope for CD56negCD16pos NK Cells as Unconventional Cytotoxic Mediators: An Adaptation to Chronic Diseases." Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, vol. 10, 2020, pp. 162. |
| Kaymaz Y, Oduor CI, Aydemir O, Luftig MA, Otieno JA, Ong'echa JM, Bailey JA, Moormann AM. "Epstein-Barr Virus Genomes Reveal Population Structure and Type 1 Association with Endemic Burkitt Lymphoma." Journal of Virology, vol. 94, no. 17, 2020. |
| Oluoch PO, Oduor CI, Forconi CS, Ong'echa JM, Münz C, Dittmer DP, Bailey JA, Moormann AM. "Kaposi Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Infection and Endemic Burkitt Lymphoma." The Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 222, no. 1, 2020, pp. 111-120. |
| Movassagh M, Oduor C, Forconi C, Moormann AM, Bailey JA. "Sensitive detection of EBV microRNAs across cancer spectrum reveals association with decreased survival in adult acute myelocytic leukemia." Scientific reports, vol. 9, no. 1, 2019, pp. 20321. |
| Panea RI, Love CL, Shingleton JR, Reddy A, Bailey JA, Moormann AM, Otieno JA, Ong'echa JM, Oduor CI, Schroeder KMS, Masalu N, Chao NJ, Agajanian M, Major MB, Fedoriw Y, Richards KL, Rymkiewicz G, Miles RR, Alobeid B, Bhagat G, Flowers CR, Ondrejka SL, Hsi ED, Choi WWL, Au-Yeung RKH, Hartmann W, Lenz G, Meyerson H, Lin YY, Zhuang Y, Luftig MA, Waldrop A, Dave T, Thakkar D, Sahay H, Li G, Palus BC, Seshadri V, Kim SY, Gascoyne RD, Levy S, Mukhopadyay M, Dunson DB, Dave SS. "The whole genome landscape of Burkitt lymphoma subtypes." Blood, vol. 134, no. 19, 2019, pp. 1598-1607. |
| Kaymaz Y, Oduor CI, Yu H, Otieno JA, Ong'echa JM, Moormann AM, Bailey JA. "Comprehensive Transcriptome and Mutational Profiling of Endemic Burkitt Lymphoma Reveals EBV Type-Specific Differences." Molecular Cancer Research, vol. 15, no. 5, 2017, pp. 563-576. |
| Oduor CI, Movassagh M, Kaymaz Y, Chelimo K, Otieno J, Ong'echa JM, Moormann AM, Bailey JA. "Human and Epstein-Barr Virus miRNA Profiling as Predictive Biomarkers for Endemic Burkitt Lymphoma." Frontiers in microbiology, vol. 8, 2017, pp. 501. |
| Oduor CI, Kaymaz Y, Chelimo K, Otieno JA, Ong'echa JM, Moormann AM, Bailey JA. "Integrative microRNA and mRNA deep-sequencing expression profiling in endemic Burkitt lymphoma." BMC Cancer, vol. 17, no. 1, 2017, pp. 761. |
| Oduor CI, Chelimo K, Ouma C, Mulama DH, Foley J, Vulule J, Bailey JA, Moormann AM. "Interleukin-6 and interleukin-10 gene promoter polymorphisms and risk of endemic Burkitt lymphoma." The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. 91, no. 3, 2014, pp. 649-54. |
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| Bailey, Jeffrey | Mencoff Family Associate Professor of Translational Research, Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Co-Director of Graduate Studies for Computational Biology |
