User:Wenjun Shao

Contact Info



 * Wenjun Shao
 * Peking University -> UC.Berkeley
 * Room2043 Dorm47 Peking University Beijing 100871 P.R.China (expired)
 * Email me through OpenWetWare

I worked in the CBI at Peking University. I learned about OpenWetWare from From others, and I've joined because I was a member of the iGEM 2008 Peking University Team.

Education

 * 2009, BSc, Biological Science, School of Life Sciences, Peking University
 * 2009, BSc, Statistics (Second Major), School of Mathematics, Peking Univeristy

Academic Research
2006.04-2009.06	Centre of Bioinformatics, Peking University, China (Advisor: Prof. Liping Wei)	Project: The origin and evolution of significant viral protein family
 * Clustered studied protein family with home-made program using Perl
 * Phylogenic analysis and syntenic comparative genomic approach to prove horizontal gene transfer
 * Parameter adjustment for maximum-likelihood analysis to search for positive selective sites
 * Preparing the manuscript to submit

2007.11-2008.11	Peking University iGEM Team, Peking University China-MIT U.S. Project: A genetic circuit to direct evolution of proteins in vivo
 * Genetic circuit construction: achieved flexible ligation into hAID and lexA to form fusion protein
 * Yeast Screening: continuous culture to select functional Gal4 with His resistance
 * Modeling: co-design metabolic and evolution model to simulate and predict the efficiency of our systems
 * Wiki webpage construction and maintenance

2008.04			 Paris/Beijing Course-workshop Creating Interdisciplinary Research Projects
 * Discussed membrane reconstruction and potential medical applications of engineered E.coli
 * Co-presentation for 'powerful E.coli' project
 * Discussed modern techniques for the handicap and participated

2008.09-2009.06 	 Centre of Bioinformatics	Peking University, China (Advisor: Prof. Louis Tao)
 * Senior Thesis Project: network modeling and analysis
 * Reviewing the neural circuit model for decision making

2009.09-present	Graduate student in Molecular and Cell Biology program in UC.Berkeley
 * 1st Rotation in Brenner Lab: variation in human trio-genome
 * 2nd Rotation in Arkin Lab: genome-wide validation of mutation collection
 * 3rd Rotation in Eisen Lab: pooled RNA-seq in Drosophila

'''2010.05-present	Graduate student in Adam Arkin Lab
 * Biofuels Project

Awards and Scholarships
2009.08 Reshetko Family Scholarship 2007.02	Peking University Undergraduate Research Endowment from SINO CAPITAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION (SCEF) 2007.09	Peking University May-fourth Scholarship 2006.09	Peking University Kwang-Hua Scholarship 2004.10	1st prizes in China National Mathematics Olympiad in Senior (CNMO) 2004.08	1st prizes in Chinese Girls' Mathematics Olympiad (CGMO)

Extracurricular activities
2008.10.19	Beijing International Marathon-Half Marathon Successfully finished, achieving a time of 2 hours 4 minutes 15 seconds 2008.08	Volunteer of Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games 2008.05	Selected to EFPL-Summer Research program	30/200 worldwide 2005.10- 2006.07	Students’ Union in School of Life Sciences, Peking University

Research interests

 * 1) Genome Research
 * 2) Systems Biology

My interest: Applying bioinformatics, statistical, and other mathematical methods to quantify and establish simple but effective models to understand complex biological system and to provide predictions for hypothesis-driven biological science; marrying bench work to address fundamental medical problems, such as cancer and mental disorder.

Publications
 

Useful links

 * Introductory tutorial
 * OpenWetWare help pages
 * Peking Wiki is established.