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SpeakerDr. ZHANG Rui (Department of Genetics, Stanford University) 

TitleThe regulatory and functional landscape of RNA editing in animals 

Time and Venue:    08-April-2014; 10:00am

KIZ main building, 3nd floor conference room 327

Introductions of Dr. ZHANG

EDUCATION 

  2004 – 2009    Ph.D., Zoology, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (Advisor: Prof. Bing Su) 

  1999 – 2003    B.S., Biology, Sichuan University, China 

  PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 

  09/2011 – Present    Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Genetics, Stanford University 

  (Advisor: Prof. Jin Billy Li) 

  08/2010 – 08/2011     Research Associate, Beijing Institute of Genomics, CAS, China 

  (Advisor: Prof. Chung-I Wu) 

  08/2009 – 06/2010     Postdoctoral Fellow, Temasek Life Sciences lab, NUS & NTU, Singapore (Advisor: Prof. Stephen M Cohen) 

  AWARDS 

  2012  Dean's Postdoctoral Fellowships, Stanford, USA 

  2011   National Excellent 100 Doctoral Dissertation nomination paper, China 

  2011   Excellent Doctorial Dissertation of Yunnan Province, China 

  2010   Excellent Doctorial Dissertation of Chinese Academy of Sciences 

  2009   President Scholarship of Chinese Academy of Sciences 

  2007   Liu Yong-Ling Scholarship of Chinese Academy of Sciences 

  SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 

  1.    Rui Zhang, Xin Li, Gokul Ramaswami, Kevin S Smith, Gustavo Turecki, Stephen B Montgomery and Jin Billy Li (2014) Quantifying RNA allelic ratios by microfluidic multiplex PCR and sequencing. Nature Methods 11:51–54 

  2.Jin Xu*, Rui Zhang*, Yang Shen, Guojing Liu, Xuemei Lu and Chung-I Wu (2013) The evolution of evolvability in microRNA target sites in vertebrates. Genome Res 23:1810-1816 

  3.Gokul Ramaswami*, Rui Zhang*, Robert Piskol, Liam P Keegan, Patricia Deng,      Mary A O'Connell and Jin Billy Li (2013) Identifying RNA editing sites using RNA sequencing data alone. Nature Methods 10:128–132 

  4.Rui Zhang, Yinqiu Wang and Bing Su (2008) Molecular evolution of a primate-specific microRNA family. Mol Biol Evol 25:1493-1502 

  5.Rui Zhang, Yi Peng, Wen Wang and Bing Su (2007) Rapid evolution of an X-linked microRNA cluster in primates. Genome Res 17:612-617 

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