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Lab News Zhongming Zhao Curriculum Vitae
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- Latest News:
*** Open positions: Research Assistant Professor of Cancer Bioinformatics click here) ***
*** Open positions: Bioinformatics Staff Scientist click here) ***
*** Open positions: Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioinformatics click here) ***
The International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (2012) was successfully held on April 22-24, 2012 at Vanderbilt. Here is the link.
Our NGS Catalog database article was accepted by Human Mutation. Congratulations Junfeng for leading this effort! (03-09-2012)
Our recent work publsihed in J Med Genetics ( PubMed link here ) was quickly featured on popular MedLinx site (12-27-2011)
Our rotation student Mr. Daniel Putman won the Second Prize in the Best Student Paper Award Competition, based on his rotation work in our lab, in the AMIA 2011 Annual Symposium, October 22-26, 2011. Congratulations! (10-23-2011)
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in University of Tennessee Health Science Center (11-03-2011)
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in University of Nebraska Medical Center (10-19-2011)
Dr. Zhao was an Plenary Speaker in The Informatics Day 2011, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, October 17, 2011
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in the XIXth World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG). (9-12-2011).
The paper based on the work by our former rotation student Mr. Dan Putman was selected as one of the finalists in the Student Best Paper competition in AMIA. Dr. Cindy Gadd, the director of DBMI training program, added "Your first research rotation project becomes an AMIA student paper finalist -- that's QUITE a first! Congratulations!"(9-8-2011).
Ms. Alex Fish joined our lab as an Vanderbilt IGP rotation student. Welcome! (9-7-2011)
Considering that our major research shifts to systems and translational medicine, we renamed our laboraotry to Bioinformatics and Systems Medicine Laboratory (BSML). (9-2-2011).
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University. (8-30-2011).
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. (8-26-2011).
Dr. Bing Wang from University of Louisville joined our lab as a Postdoc Fellow. Welcome! (8-1-2011)
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in the International Workshop on Cancer Systems Biology (ICSB 2011). (7-3-2011).
The manuscript prepared by our rotation student Mr. Dan Putman was accepted by AMIA. Congratulations! (6-20-2011).
Dr. Zhao was a speaker in the Fourth Summit on Systems Biology, Richmond, VA (6-17-2011).
Mr. Paul Hart joined our lab as an NIH/NLM Summer Intern Fellow. Welcome! (6-15-2011)
Dr. Jingchun Sun was promoted to be a Research Instrutor in DBMI. Congratulations! A celebration party will be held on June 23rd (5-16-2011)
Dr. Qingguo Wang from University of Missouri joined our lab as a Postdoc Fellow. Welcome! (5-16-2011)
Dr. Peilin Jia is one of the finalists for the 2010/2011 Vanderbilt Postdoc of the Year Award. Congratulations! (4-26-2011)
Dr. Siyuan Zheng had his oral presentation of his network analysis of HCC data in the 10th Annual UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit (4/2/2011)
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in the Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute, The University of Texas at San Antonio (3-7-2011).
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in the Biostatistics Branch at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (2-15-2011).
Our 2010 summer intern Mr. Jian Tian was a co-author of a recent paper appeared in IJCBDD. Congratulations! (1-20-2011).
Dr. Peilin Jia, postdoctoral fellow, in our lab was the receipient of the 2011 NARSAD Young Investigator Award Congratulations! (12-30-2010) .
Dr. Jingchun Sun, postdoctoral fellow, in our lab was the receipient of the 2011 NARSAD Young Investigator Award Congratulations! (12-30-2010) .
"Many needles in genetic haystack" -Our work recently published in Bioinformatics was included in VUMC Reporter (12-16-2010).
Our collaborative work recently published in Cancer Cell was documented in VUMC Reporter (12-10-2010) .
Dr. Zhao joined Editorial Board of journal PLoS ONE (12-03-2010)
Our recent paper appeared in Bioinformatics was selected and evaluated by the Faculty of 1000 (F1000) who placed our work in their library of the top 2% of published articles in biology and medicine. See link here. (11-26-2010)
Congratulations to Ketaki, Bioinformatics intern at BRC for getting a job in Bioinformatics core at University of Illinos, Chicago. Her farwell was held on Wednesday (11-16-2010). (Photos)
Professor John Quackenbush from Havard University visited VICC and presented his work entitled "Network and state space models: Science and science fiction approaches to cell fate predictions" (11-12-2010).
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker by the Wilmer Eye Institute and the Visual Neuroscience Training Program (VNTP) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (11-02-2010).
Dr. Zhao was chosen to receive the Nick Norgan Award 2010, as lead author of the best paper published in Annals of Human Biology during 2009 (10-14-2010).
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker at the Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University (10-22-2010).
Cancer 2.0 - Harnessing computing power for cancer research and care
(06-17-2010)
Schizophrenia data: one-stop-shopping (06-25-2010)
- Positions available now:
Bioinformatics Engineer I in BSBL (closed)
Postdoctoral Fellows in Bioinformatics in BSBL
We welcome graduate and undergraduate students to join our lab.
History
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Our new BRC (Bioinformatic Resource Center) office suite was renovated and is fully functional now. (7/19/2010)
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We welcome four new members (Chunling Wan - Postdoc Fellow; Jian Tian - NIH/NLM Summer Intern Fellow; Satishkumar Ganakammal - Bioinformatics Engineer I; and Ketaki Bhide - Bioinformatics Engineer Intern). A welcome lunch meeting will be held on June 11, 2010 in the BRC room (6/8/2010)
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Dr. Jingchun Sun was nominated the Vanderbilt Postdoc of the Year. Congratulations! (4/20/2010)
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Two members (Peilin Jia and Zhongming Zhao) presented their work in the UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit (3/20/2010)
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Our collaborator's Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) grant was funded to support the next generation of cancer researchers VUMC Reporter (12/18/2009)
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"Getting gene priorities in order". Our work appeared in Bioinformatics (Sun et al. 2009) was highlighted in the VUMC Reporter -Aliquots (11/20/09)
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"If mice could speak". Our collaborator's work was highlighted by Nature reporter Erika Check Hayden on October 22, 2009, appeared in Nature Blog Click here
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Ms. Dedeepya Vaka joined the Bioinformatics Group in VMSR. Welcome! (11/1/09)
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Dr. Anyuan Guo accepted a Full Professor position in Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Congratulations! (10/1/09)
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Dr. Siyuan Zheng from Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science joined our lab as a postdoc fellow. Welcome! (9/25/09)
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Dr. Hung-Chung (Joe) Huang from Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center joined the Bioinformatics Group in VMSR as a senior bioinformatician. Welcome! (10/1/09)
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The following databases are available now:
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Ethanol Related Gene
Resource: ERGR
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Schizophrenia Gene
Resource: SZGR
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Recent publications:
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Sun J, Wan C, Jia P, Fanous AH, Kendler KS, Riley BP, Zhao Z (2010) Application of systems biology approach identifies and validates GRB2 as a risk gene for schizophrenia in the Irish Case Control Study of Schizophrenia (ICCSS) sample
PubMed
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Sun J, Jia P, Fanous AH, Webb BT, van
den Oord EJCG, Chen X, Bukszar J, Kendler KS, Zhao Z (2009) A
multi-dimensional evidence-based candidate gene
prioritization approach for complex diseases – Schizophrenia
as a case. Bioinformatics 25:2595-2602
PubMed
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