2^nd International Conference on Transcriptomics September 12-14, 2016 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

He is currently an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Rochester, USA.

Understanding of the structure and physical properties of DNA.

The Lu laboratory is interested in understanding the molecular and biochemical basis that underlies physiological and pathological signaling pathways (growth, metabolic, hypoxia, or DNA damage signals), which lead to gene expression and subsequent cell growth arrest, differentiation, senescence, autophagy, or apoptosis.

Molecular dissection and translational research of the p53 and c-myc networks in controlling cell growth, senescence, death, differentiation, and tumorigenesis.

Momiao Xiong is a Professor at Division of Biostatistics and Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston . He obtained his PhD degree from the Department of Statistics at the University of Georgia in 1993 and finished his postdoctoral training in computational biology from the University of Southern California in 1995.

His research is in the area of statistical genetics, bioinformatics, machine learning and image analysis.

Yongming Sang has completed his DSc and PhD at Nanjing Agricultural University and Kansas State University, respectively. He is a principal investigator and an Assistant Professor currently at Kansas State University. He has published 40 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as a reviewer of multiple journals and grant panel of repute. Main research efforts in his lab focus on immunometabolic regulation underlying animal viral and obesity diseases

immunometabolic regulation

Andrew Grimson completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004, investigating mRNA decay. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship in 2009, mentored by Dr. David Bartel (Whitehead Institute/MIT), investigating microRNAs and their targets. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell University. His lab works on post-transcriptional regulation, in particular the role of the 3′ untranslated region (3′UTR); research is focused upon the basic science of 3′UTRs, together with biological processes under post-transcriptional control. His research is supported by grants from the NIH, and by a Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society.

post-transcriptional regulation, Molecular Biology, Genetics

Zhenyu Xuan obtained his PhD degree in biophysics from Institute of Biophysics, Chinese academy of science. He did postdoctoral training in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory mentored by Dr. Michael Q Zhang for computational biology. He currently is an assistant professor in University of Texas at Dallas. His lab is interested in studying transcription regulation using computational and systems biology approaches, with particular interests in non-coding RNA functions in cancer.

Transcriptional Regulation

Erin Sparks received her PhD in 2011 from Vanderbilt University and is currently a postdoctoral associate with Philip Benfey at Duke University. Erin has a longstanding interest in the molecular development of branched organs.

molecular development of branched organs