Recent News - Archive
- 10/13/2017, My paper with Alex I. Finnegan and Professor Jun S. Song, entitled A unified computational framework for modeling genome-wide nucleosome landscape, was up on bioRxiv.
- 06/25/2017-06/29/2017, I was at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the International Physics of Living Systems (iPoLS) Network in Paris, France. I presented a poster entitled Examination of Reversal Asymmetry in the Sequence Preference of Histone-DNA Interaction.
- 05/09/2017, The paper NF45 and NF90/NF110 coordinately regulate ESC pluripotency and differentiation was published in RNA. I am a co-first author of the paper and led bioinformatics analysis. The work is through collaboration with the Robert Blelloch lab.
- 04/10/2017, I won the Drickamer Research Fellowship. This graduate fellowship is awarded to a student who has demonstrated significant ability in research. The fund is named for Harry G. Drickamer, professor of physics, chemistry, and chemical engineering at Illinois and was established by his former students.
- 11/23/2016, The paper Inhibition of mTOR induces a paused pluripotent state was published in Nature. I am a co-author of the paper and led bioinformatics analysis. The work is through collaboration with the Miguel Ramalho-Santos lab.
- 05/22/2016-05/27/2016, I was at the Gordon Research Conference - Chromatin Structure and Function in Les Diablerets, Switzerland. I presented a poster entitled Categorical spectral analysis of periodicity in nucleosomal DNA and reversal asymmetry in the sequence preference of histone-DNA interaction.
- 05/04/2016, I presented a poster entitled Categorical spectral analysis of periodicity in nucleosomal DNA at the IGB Fellows Symposium.
- 04/20/2016, I passed my preliminary exam (thesis proposal). My thesis will be on statistical analysis and modeling of nucleosome positioning.
- 04/11/2016, I presented a poster entitled Categorical spectral analysis of periodicity in nucleosomal DNA during the NSF site visit at the Center for the Physics of Living Cells.
- 02/17/2016, My paper with H. Tomas Rube and Professor Jun S. Song, entitled Categorical spectral analysis of periodicity in nucleosomal DNA, was published in Nucleic Acids Research.