学术科研

学术预告:Profiling Cell/Tissue Specific Gene Regulatory Networks

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报告题目:Profiling Cell/Tissue Specific Gene Regulatory Networks

报告人: Louxin Zhang (National University of Singapore)

报告时间:2017年9月27日(周三)10:00

报告地点:逸夫楼C座314会议室

报告人简介:

Louxin Zhang obtained the PhD degree in computer science from University of Waterloo, Canada, and now is a Professor of bioinformatics at the National University of Singapore. His current research is in bioinformatics in comparative genomics, protein networks and cancer biology. He has made significant contribution to the study of phylogenetic networks and sequence comparison. He has actively published in top-notch computer science and biology journals, including Journal of the ACM, SIAM J. Computing, Genome Research, and Nature Communications, and conferences such as ECCB and RECOMB. He also wrote a monograph on sequence comparison (published by Springer) and a bioinformatics textbook (in Chinese, published by High Education Press, Beijing). He served as the Area Co-Chair for the Evolution and Comparative Genomics track of the 23rd Annual Conference on Intelligent and Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and 14th Annual European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), jointly held at Dublin in 2015.