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A lab is a nurturing environment that aims to maximize the potential of students as scientists and as human beings. -- Uri Alon
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PI:Wei Li (李蔚), PhD


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Endowed Chair and Professor of Bioinformatics:2019 -
Department of Biological Chemistry
School of Medicine
University of California, Irvine

Dan L Duncan Chair Professor:07/2018 - 2019
Professor (tenured): 08/2016 - present
Associate Professor (tenured): 10/2011 - 07/2016
Assistant Professor (tenure track): 11/2007 - 09/2011
Division of Biostatistics, Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine.

Postdoctoral Fellow: 06/2004 - 10/2007
Advisor: Prof. Xiaole Shirley Liu
Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston

Bioinformatics Group Leader: 01/2000 - 05/2004
Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI)
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Ph.D. in Bioinformatics: 09/1998 - 09/2003
Advisor: Prof. Runsheng Chen
Institute of Biophysics
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China


Instructors


Postdoctoral Fellows


  • Jie Lyu, PhD (01/2016)

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China.

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  • Lei Li, PhD (08/2016)

PhD in Computational Biology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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  • Jiejun Shi, PhD (08/2016)

PhD in Biology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

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  • Dapeng Hao, PhD

Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences, University of Macau

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  • Ya Cui, PhD (09/2018)

PhD in Computational Biology, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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  • Yumei Li, PhD (09/2019)

PhD in Molecular Medicine, Peking University

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Graduate Students

  • Jianfeng Xu (02/2016)

3rd year graduate student, Molecular & Cellular Biology

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  • Fanglue Peng

Graduate student, Molecular & Cellular Biology
Co-mentored with Dr. Xi Chen

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  • Yipeng Gao (02/2018)

1st year Graduate Student, Quantitative & Computational Biosciences

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Lab Alumni

Postdoc Fellow: 06/2008 - 06/2012
Current Position: tenure-track Assistant Professor at Mayo Clinic

Postdoc Fellow: 2010 - 2014
Current Position: tenure-track Assistant Professor at Texas A&M IBT

Postdoc Fellow: 2009-2013; instructor: 2013-2015
Current Position: tenure-track Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine & Methodist Hospital

  • Yuanxin Xi, PhD

Postdoc/Instructor: 2008-2016
Current Position: tenure-track Assistant Professor at UT Health (declined); now at MD Anderson

Postdoc/Instructor: 2011-2016
Current Position: tenure-track Assistant Professor at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Rice University
Postdoc: 2012-2017
Current Position: tenure-track Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)

PhD in Computational Epigenetics and Biological Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology, China. Postdoc: 2014-2018
Current Position: Professor at Wenzhou Medical University http://sulab.info

  • Xueqiu Lin (Tongji University)
  • Xiaodong Cui, PhD

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio Postdoc: 2016-2018

  • Xin Feng, PhD

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University Postdoc: 2016-2018


Lab Alumni (co-mentored by Wei)

  • Benjamin Rodriguez, PhD

Postdoc Fellow (co-mentored with Peggy Goodell) Current Position: Fellow at NIH

  • Kadir Caner Akdemir

PhD student (co-mentored with Michelle Barton): 2011 - 2013
Current Position: Postdoc Fellow at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

  • Zeynep H Coban (co-mentored with Michelle Barton)

PhD student, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2011-2014
Current Position: Postdoc Fellow at Baylor

  • Teresa T. Yiu, PhD

instructor: 2014-2015 (NCI R25T fellow; co-mentored with Melissa Bondy)
Current Position: Teacher in a private school