Wang Lab

Wang Lab

The Wang Lab at the University of Pennsylvania focuses on the genetics and genomics of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, and informatics and algorithm development for genome-scale experiments.

News and Events

• 6/13/16 Join us at the 2016 Institute for Biomedical Informatics Genomics and Computational Biology Graduate Group Annual Retreat. IBI/GCB Retreat
• 1/21/16 A belated welcome to Yi-Fan Chou, who joined our lab as a Research Specialist on 1/11/2016.
• 12/18/15 DASHR article is accepted for publication in the NAR Database Issue 2016 and is now online (EPub ahead of print). Read here
• 12/15/15 EBI MIRIAM registry now integrates DASHR RNA and expression data records
• 12/14/15 
  • Our article on RNA modification in the plant and human transcriptomes is online now "Chemical Modifications Mark Alternatively Spliced and Uncapped Messenger RNAs in Arabidopsis". Plant Cell, 2015. http://www.plantcell.org/content/early/2015/11/11/tpc.15.00591.abstract
  • Editorial on our paper is here: Revealing the Elusive Plant Epitranscriptome 
    http://www.plantcell.org/content/early/2015/11/11/tpc.15.00908.full.pdf
  • AAAS EurekAlert! coverage of our article is here: Penn biologists characterize new form of mRNA regulation http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/uop-pbc112315.php
• 11/18/2015 Postdoc Weixin (Jacky) Wang received an award from his graduate institution, University of Hong Kong, Award for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student, for the academic year 2013–14. 
• 11/17/2015 Yih-Chii Hwang's thesis defense was a success!
  
• 11/16/2015 GCB PhD Candidate Yih-Chii Hwang will defend her thesis, "Identification of Long-Range Regulatory Elements in the Human Genome." 10am, 9-146 Smilow
• 10/7/2015 PI Li-San Wang is quoted in "The Landscape of Bioinformatics Education: Ever-Expanding and Heterogeneous" in Biomedical Computation Review