Principle Investigators: Chi Zhang and Sha Cao

News:

  • Dr. Chi Zhang and Dr. Sha Cao serves as a PC member of RECOMB 2022. 09/10/2021
  • SRMR has been accepted by ICDM 2021 as a regular paper. (Acceptance Rate 9.9%, first time submission of the work). Congratulation to Wennan, Pengtao and Changlin! 08/31/2021
  • scFEA has been highlighted by RECOMB 2021 [video], ICIBM 2021, 2021 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium. 08/2021
  • Our paper ‘Ref-1 redox activity alters cancer cell metabolism in pancreatic cancer: Exploiting this novel finding as a potential target ‘ has been accepted by Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research. Congratulations to the authors. 07/2021
  • Our paper ‘A graph neural network model to estimate cell-wise metabolic flux using single cell RNA-seq data’ has been accepted by Genome Research. Congratulations to Wennan and Norah! [paper] [github] 07/01/2021
  • Summer intern students Grace Yang, Nonah Meroueh, Shaoyang Huang, Kevin Hu, and Jonathan Yang from 2021 Indianapolis STEM program and Tendo Mubuuke from 2021 IUSM future scientist program joined BDRL. Welcome! 06/2021
  • BDRL organized the “Introduction of R/Python programming and bioinformatics” workshop for high school students from the STEM, SEED, Future Scientist (FSP), and IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Summer Research (SRP) programs. BDRL members Pengtao Dang, Changlin Wan, Wennan Chang, Chi Zhang and Sha Cao gave 14 lectures in this workshop. [video link] [github] 06/2021
  • Chi Zhang serves as a Guest Editor of the special issue “‘Application of Next-generation Sequencing for Cancer Drug Repositioning” on Frontiers In Oncology. 04/2021
  • Chi Zhang co-organizes the special issue “Biomedical Informatics” on Medicine in Omics with Dr. Ying Xu. 04/2021
  • Chi Zhang’s NSF Career Award “NSF 2047631: Mining biological functions from single-cell multi-omics data” was funded by NSF DBI IIBR. Thanks for the support by NSF! 04/12/2021
  • Wennan Chang received a data scientist summer intern position at Kite Pharma. Changlin Wan received a summer intern offer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Xiaoyu Lu received a Bioinformatics summer intern offer at Bristol-Myers Squibb and Spatial Transcriptomics fall Co-ops offer at Merck. Congratulations to Wennan, Changlin and Xiaoyu! 03/01/2021
  • Chi Zhang serves as a guest editor for the “Application of Next-generation Sequencing for Cancer Drug Repositioning” special issue on Frontiers in Oncology. 02/01/2021
  • Chi Zhang serves as a PC member of KDD. 02/01/2021
  • Changlin serves as a PC member of ICML 2021 IJCAI 2021 UAI 2021 NeurIPS 2021. 01/15/2021
  • The clinical trial of “Cabozantinib for neurofibromatosis type 1–related plexiform neurofibromas: a phase 2 trial” we have analyzed was published on Nature Medicine. 01/13/2021
  • Wennan has past the Preliminary Examination, congratulations to Wennan. 11/20/2020
  • Changlin’s paper has been accepted by IEEE BIBM 2020. Congratulations to authors. 10/30/2020
  • “Modulation of Immune Infiltration of Ovarian Cancer Tumor Microenvironment by Specific Subpopulations of Fibroblasts” was publised on the Journal of Cancers. Congratulations to authors. 10/09/2020
  • SSMD has been accepted by Briefings in Bioinformatics. [github] Congratulations to Xiaoyu and Szu-Wei! 10/11/2020
  • CSMR has been accepted by Briefings in Bioinformatics. [github] Congratulations to Wennan and Changlin! 10/05/2020
  • “MAL2 drives immune evasion in breast cancer by suppressing tumor antigen presentation” was published on the Journal of Clinical Investigation. 09/29/2020
  • GETF has been accepted by NeurIPS 2020 (Acceptance Rate 20%, first time submission of the work). Congratulations to Changlin and Wennan! 09/25/2020
  • Our single cell Flux Estimation Analysis (scFEA) came online. [Paper] [github] 09/01/2020
  • BIND has been accepted by CIKM 2020 (Acceptance Rate 26%, first time submission of the work) Congratulations to Changlin and Wennan! 07/16/2020
  • Welcome for the two high school students Harsh Duvvuru and Adithya Ayanam attending the summer research internship at BDRL 05/01/2020
  • Chi Zhang serves as editor of IJCBDD. 05/20/2020
  • Changlin got the summer research internship at Amazon. Congratulations to Changlin. 05/01/2020
  • The clinical trial of “Selumetinib in children with inoperable plexiform neurofibromas” we have analyzed was published on New England Journal of Medicine. 04/09/2020
  • The supplementary issue “Computational methods and application in medical genomics” of ICIBM2019 is released on BMC Medical Genomics. 04/03/2019
  • Chi Zhang serves as program committee member of KDD 2020. 02/12/2020