Biomedical and Translational Informatics Laboratory

William Bone

  Graduate Student

  A301 Richards Building 
  3700 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104

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  https://wpbone06.github.io/

 

 

Current Projects

Using multi-trait genetic association methods to better understand the genetic etiology of cardiometabolic diseases.

Education

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2017 – Present
    PhD candidate in Genomics and Computational Biology
Pursing a Dual Master’s Degree in StatisticsSt. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD 2012
    Double Major: Biology and Biochemistry
 

Work Experience

  • Recursion Pharmaceuticals 2022
  • Data Science InternAgilent Technologies 2015-2017
  • Bioinformatics EngineerNational Institutes of Health Undiagnosed Diseases Program 2012 – 2015
  • Post-baccalaureate Intramural Research Trainee

Publications:

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Joseph Park

  Graduate Student

  A301 Richards Building 
  3700 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Current Projects

  • Understanding how genetic variants predispose to or protect from human disease by cross-referencing DNA sequencing data with phenotype data derived from electronic health records (EHR), with specific interests in rare coding variants and cardiovascular+metabolic diseases

Education

  • Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 2015 - Present
    MD-PhD Candidate in Genomics and Computational Biology
  • Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
    2011-2015
    A.B. in Biomedical Engineering

Work Experience

  • Chan Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital
    2012-2015
  • Hofstra University, Department of Mathematics, Dr. Dan Ismailescu
    2008-2011
  • Beth Israel Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Dr. I Michael Leitman
    2008-2011

Publications:

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Pankhuri Singhal

 Graduate Student 

  A301 Richards Building 
  3700 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104

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  Personal website

  LinkedIn

  GitHub

 

Current Projects

Temporal modeling of patient health trajectories in electronic health records + omic data to

  1. identify disease comorbidity patterns over time and
  2. predict next clinical event based on disease path insights

Education

  • University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) | 2017 – Present
    Ph.D. candidate in Genetics
  • Northeastern University (Boston, MA) | 2017
    B.S. in Neuroscience

Work Experience

  • Monaghan Laboratory | 2014-2017
    Northeastern University, Dept. of Biology
    Undergraduate researcher
  • Editas Medicine | 2015 & 2016
    Molecular biology co-op (full time jan-aug)

Publications

For the list of my publications please visit Google Scholar.

 

Xinyuan (Blair) Zhang

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 Graduate Student

A301 Richards Building 
3700 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104 

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Current Projects

Identify pleiotropy across cardiovascular and neurological diseases in electronic health record data using multivariate approaches.

 
Education

B.S Biotechnology
Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China
2014

Work Experience

Research Assistant
Internship Agricultural Genomes Institute at Shenzhen
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
2014-2015

Publications

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Binglan (Victoria) Li

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 Graduate Student

A301 Richards Building 
3700 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Current Projects

Data integration approach to identify disease status indicating factors, including genetic factors and features from electronic heath records.

 
Education

B.S Life Sciences
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
2015

 

Anna Okula Basile

Graduate Student

Pennsylvania State University
328 Innovation Blvd. Suite 210

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Current Projects

Phenome-wide association studies

 
Education

M.A. Biochemistry
City University of New York: Hunter College
2013

B.S Forensic Toxicology
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
2008

Work Experience

Adjunct Lecturer
City University of New York: Hunter College
2011-2013

Formulation Chemist: Research and Development Laboratory
E.T. Browne Drug Company Inc.
2007-2011

 

Neerja Katiyar

Master's  Bioinformatics and Genomics
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA

 

Emily Holzinger

Graduate Student (Human Genetics)
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

Currently Post-Doctoral fellow at NIH

 

Carrie Moore

Graduate Student (MD/PhD)
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

 

Ben Grady

Graduate Student (Human Genetics)
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

 

Ruowang Li

Graduate Student

512 Wartik Laboratory
Pennsylvania State University

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Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Current Projects

Using an integrative approach to uncover genetic factors affected under chemotherapeutic agent,
Performing genome-wide analysis of heat-shock induced gene and protein network in yeast
 
Education

B.S Biology and Biotechnology

Minor in Computer Science
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2011

Publications

  • Dokyoon Kim, Ruowang Li, Scott M. Dudek, Marylyn D. Ritchie. ATHENA: Identifying interactions between different levels of genomic data using grammatical evolution neural network. Translational Bioinformatics Conference (submitted)
  • Ruowang Li, E.R. Holzinger, S.M. Dudek, M.D. Ritchie. (2013). Evaluation of parameter contribution to neural network size and fitness in ATHENA for genetic analysis. Genetic Programming Theory And Practice (accepted)
  • Marylyn Ritchie, Emily Holzinger, Ruowang Li, Sarah Pendergrass. Next-generation analyses for exploring the genetic architecture of complex traits: meta-dimensional approaches. Nature Reviews Genetics (submitted)
  • Marylyn Ritchie, Sarah Pendergrass, Ruowang Li, Emily Holzinger. Meta-dimensional analysis to dissect the architecture of complex traits. Trends in Genetics (submitted)
  • Ozlem Yildirim, Ruowang Li, Jui-Hung Hung,Poshen B. Chen,Xianjun Dong,Ly-Sha Ee, Zhiping Weng,Oliver J. Rando, and Thomas G. Fazzio (2011) Mbd3/NURD Complex Regulates Expression of 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine Marked Genes in Embryonic Stem Cells. Cell 147, 1498–1510 (2011).
  • Benjamin R. Carone, Lucas Fauquier, Naomi Habib, Jeremy M. Shea, Caroline E.Hart, Ruowang Li, Christoph Bock, Chengjian Li, Phillip D. Zamore, Alexander Meissner, Zhiping Weng, Hans A. Hofmann, Nir Friedman, and Oliver J. Rando. (2010) Paternally-induced transgenerational environmental reprogramming of metabolic gene expression in mammals. Cell (1084-1096, 23 December 2010)
  • Quanqin Dai, Yingnan Wang, Yu Zhang, Xinbi Li, Ruowang Li, Bo Zou, JaeTae Seo, Yiding Wang, Manhong Liu, William W. Yu. (2009) Stability Study of PbSe Semiconductor Nanocrystals over Concentration, Size, Atmosphere, and Light Exposure. Langmuir 25 (20), 12320-12324