Lian Cao joined the lab five years ago. During that time, she completed her masters degree in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. She has been the most fearless scientist in our group, unafraid to tackle the most challenging questions concerning enhancer biology. I have been most fortunate to work with Lian over the past years and I look forward to continued collaboration. I am so proud of her work and all her accomplishments. Now, she completed her Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology. Congratulations, Dr. Cao!
5 years at UTD
I can’t believe how fast 5 years have gone by. It has been and continues to be an exciting scientific and teaching journey for me at UTD. Looking forward to many more years.
Department Graduate Student Orientation
Thank you all for attending the annual graduate orientation luncheon to welcome the new students and to reconnect with friends and colleagues.
The current Ph.D. students in the Functional Genomics Laboratory at the Department Graduate Student Orientation.
Chahat, Shayne, Bo, Gozde, me & Lian
10,000 citations and counting
Seminar at LSU
I visited Lousiana State University in Baton Rouge on March 25th to present our work on eRNAs. I met many outstanding students and faculty and learned about many exciting research programs.
Global transcriptional activity dynamics reveal functional enhancer RNAs
After almost a full year of revisions, our manuscript in collaboration with Michael Zhang here at UTD will be officially published in the coming issue of Genome Research. Our sincere congratulations to all the authors: Yoon Jung Kim, Peng Xie, Lian Cao, Michael Q. Zhang and Tae Hoon Kim. Now off to an exciting world of eRNAs as programmable switches for genome control.
We also want to express our gratitude to all the reviewers for their careful reviews and comments. We are particularly thankful to one of the reviewers who recognized immediately the value of our work.
UTD-Mexico Summer Research Program
Blanca Cepeda from Universidad de Monterrey Mexico spent her summer in our lab, as a participant of the UTD-Mexico summer research program. She gave her final presentation today. Blanca brought her positive enthusiastic energy to our lab. Her dedication and hard work was exemplary. Congratulations on the job well done and we will miss you Blanca!
Dr. Peng Xie's Hooding Ceremony
Bo Zhang, Yoon Jung Kim, Peng Xie, Tae Kim & Lian Cao
PENG DEFENDED HIS THESIS. CONGRATULATIONS, DR. XIE!
Zhenyu Xuan, Tae Kim, Peng Xie, Michael Zhang & Faruck Morcos
profile by Rita Allen Foundation
Many thanks to Molly Sharlach and Elizabeth Christopherson at Rita Allen Foundation for making this possible.
