Yearly Highlights
2025
- Third FunGen-xQTL Symposium hosted at Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco
- Two R01s funded (FunGen-xQTL continuation; RNA modifications)
- Two FunGen-xQTL trainee oral presentations at ASHG in Boston
- Joined: 1 staff scientist (Jenny Empawi); Left: 1 postdoc (Yanghyeon Cho to tenure-track faculty, University of Idaho)
2024
- Second FunGen-xQTL Workshop hosted at New York Genome Center
- Invited sessions hosted at STATGEN 2024 in Pittsburgh and AAIC 2024 in Philadelphia
- Two trainee oral presentations at ASHG in Denver
- We adopted cloud computing (supplementary award to multi-omics R01)
- Joined: 2 staff scientists (Anjing Liu, Ruixi Li); Left: 2 master’s students (Zining Qi to PhD, University of Chicago; Haochen Sun to PhD, Mount Sinai)
2023
- First FunGen-xQTL Workshop hosted at Baylor College of Medicine
- Received Taub Institute Grants for Emerging Research (TIGER) Award of 2023
- Joined: 3 postdocs (Ru Feng, Xuewei Cao, Yanghyeon Cho), 1 master’s student (Anjing Liu); Left: 2 master’s student (Hao Sun to PhD, Mount Sinai; Xuanhe Chen to industry in Beijing)
2022
- First NIH R01 funded (multi-omics data analysis methods)
- First FunGen-xQTL in person kick-off meeting at AAIC in San Diego
- Two trainee oral presentations at ASHG in Los Angeles
- Joined: 3 master’s students (Zining Qi, Haochen Sun, Xuanhe Chen); Left: 3 master’s students (Anmol Singh to PhD, Northwestern; Amanda Tsai to PhD, University of Washington; Yuqi Miao to PhD, Columbia University)
2020–2021
- COVID-19 pandemic lockdown: worked from home for 17 months!
- Worked remotely with 5 master’s students and 1 undergraduate on thesis projects
- Co-advised three postdocs with Dr. Suzanne Leal on family-based association and rare-variant analysis projects
- Returned to office (19th floor, Presbyterian Hospital Building) in September 2021