Faculty

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General

Research summary
The broad area of systems and control theory

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Computational and Systems Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Research summary

Key words
Bioinformatics, epigenetics

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Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Computational and Systems Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Synthetic biology for advanced biofuels, biomaterials, and chemicals.

Key words
Synthetic biology, Metabolic engineering, regulatory systems, biomaterials

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Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Cancer Biology
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Deep learning; AI; Multi-omics; Translational cancer research; Cancer; Genomics; Imaging

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RNA-seq, WGS, genomics, sequencing, deep learning, machine learning, artificial intelligence, AI, bioinformatics, computational biology, algorithm, multi-omics, cancer, HPV, radiation, PET, MRI, image

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Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Computational and Systems Biology

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My research integrates causal modeling and machine learning to improve the reliability of real-world evidence generation and to improve the trustworthiness of AI-based clinical algorithms.

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causal inference, machine learning, artificial intelligence, electronic health records, clinical informatics

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Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

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Understand how photosynthesis and photosynthetic cells respond to high temperatures and what factors limit heat acclimation by using both green algae and land plants as models

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Photosynthesis, heat stress, green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, C4 plant Setaria viridis

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Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

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Cryo-EM study of native macromolecular complexes related to microtubule and cilia

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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

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We use a multidisciplinary discovery pipeline that consists of next generation sequencing, bacterial genetics, host genetics and metabolomics to characterize how infection-stimulated bile components regulate intestinal functions

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Metabolite, Bacterial pathogen, host pathogen interaction

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Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Computational and Systems Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Neurosciences

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Understand the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration through integrated genomic and network inference approaches.

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computational biology, neurogenomics, transcription regulation, neurodegeneration, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson disease

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Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Epigenetic regulation of plant traits and environmental adaptation

Key words
Epigenetics, DNA methylation, Histone modification, gene silencing