November 2021
Shawn gives a seminar talk at Emerging Scholars in Genome Sciences Symposium organized by CPHG.
Press release about Zhenjia's Nature paper with the Hao Jiang Lab is featured at UVA Today.
Ben gives a presentation at the MoTrPAC consortium subcommittee virtual meeting.
September 2021
First-year BIMS PhD student Zhaoxia Ma joins the lab. Welcome Zhaoxia!
Zhenjia's collaboration work with the Hao Jiang Lab is published in Nature!
Shawn and Mengxue each presents a poster at Cold Spring Harbor Meetings on Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription and Eukaryotic DNA Replication & Genome Maintenance.
August 2021
The first lab retreat is held at Thomson Farm in Leesburg, Virginia. Lab members explore Harpers Ferry by hiking and boating.
In collaboration with Drs. Aidong Zhang and Stefan Bekiranov, Chongzhi receives a medium grant from NSF as a co-PI.
June 2021
Chongzhi serves as a mentor at the 2020-2021 Biomedical Data Science Innovation Lab.
May 2021
Congratulations to Chris for starting a new position as pathology fellow at the National Cancer Institute!
Congratulations to the Class of 2021! Zack will start his PhD studies at the University of Southern California; Xinyue will pursue a master in biostatistics at Yale; Alex will work at a biomedical technology startup in Charlottesville; and Sophie will be a postbac IRTA research fellow at NIH! Best wishes to all!
News release about Zhenjia, Zack, and Wenjing's recent BART papers can be found at UVA Today.
Zhenjia, Shawn, Zack, and Billy present posters at the 2021 NHLBI Systems Biology Symposium.
Chongzhi gives an invited seminar at New York University's Center for the Investigation of Environmental Hazards.
Alex and Zack present their Capstone project "a computational pipeline for studying functional genome organization" at the 2021 BME Capstone Symposium. Way to go Alex and Zack!
April 2021
Chongzhi gives an invited talk at the Foundations of Biomedical Data Science Seminar Series. The video is available here.
March 2021
Chongzhi gives an invited talk at Duke University's Center for Genomic and Computational Biology.
Zhenjia's BART3D paper is accepted to Bioinformatics!
Wenjing and Zhenjia's BARTweb paper is accepted to NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics!
February 2021
Zack's paper on BART Cancer web resource is accepted to NAR Cancer!
January 2021
Chongzhi receives a UVA Research Excellence Award! See the news report and video below!
Three new members join the lab: BIMS rotations student Jamel Simpson, postdoctoral associates Qingying Chen and Billy Lamberti! Welcome Jamel, Qingying, and Billy!
The Quantitative Biology journal features Chongzhi's recent publication with a cover image.
October 2020
September 2020
Zhenjia gives a talk at Emerging Scholars in Genome Sciences Symposium Series organized by CPHG.
Our cancer CTCF paper is published in Genome Biology. Congratulations Zhenjia!
Our collaboration paper on histone H3 variant activity with Chunyuan Jin and Max Costa at NYU is published in iScience. Congratulations Zhenjia, Wuwei and Rongquan!
August 2020
Zhenjia's paper on cancer CTCF is accepted to Genome Biology!
July 2020
Zack Thomas presents a poster at ISMB 2020 virtual meeting. Way to go!
Dr. Zhenjia Wang receives a Trainee Fellowship Grant from UVA Cancer Center. Congratulations Zhenjia!
The lab welcomes BIMS rotation student Audrey Putelo!
June 2020
Chongzhi co-chairs a Minisymposium on Transcriptional Gene Regulation in Cancer at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Virtual Annual Meeting 2020.
May 2020
The lab receives an NIH administrative supplement to the R35 award to support Zack Thomas's undergraduate summer research. Way to go Zack!
Congratulations to the graduating Class of 2020!
Aaron Ho receives The Royal Society of Chemistry Certificate of Excellence, an award given each year to a graduating student to recognize an outstanding academic and research career. Congratulations Aaron! Way to go!
April 2020
Shawn's paper in collaboration with the Hai-Hui Xue Lab is published in Cellular & Molecular Immunology!
Mengxue Tian and Hongpan Zhang accept offers from the Biomedical Sciences (BIMS) graduate program and will start PhD studies in the lab this fall. Welcome again Mengxue and Hongpan!
March 2020
Celina Shih, the lab's first summer undergraduate student, will join the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory as a bioinformatician, after graduating from Hopkins this Spring. Congratulations Celina!
The lab starts operating remotely on March 9, 2020, with all lab members working from home, as a proactive response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
December 2019
Zhenjia's collaboration project with the Suresh Cuddapah lab is published in Epigenetics & Chromatin.
November 2019
Zhenjia and Shawn present posters at the NCI Chromosome Biology Symposium.
The lab welcomes undergraduate students Anvitha Chimata and Drew Vanichkachorn!
October 2019
Ruoyao Shi, undergraduate student from Jilin University, and Hongpan Zhang, recent graduate from Sichuan University, join the lab. Welcome Ruoyao and Hongpan!
September 2019
The lab welcomes undergraduate students Minaal Khan and Cameron Her!
Chongzhi receives an R35 (Maximizing Investigators' Research Award, MIRA) grant from NIH!
August 2019
Chongzhi gives invited talks at Shandong University in Jinan, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease at Peking Union Medical College, and the 14th International Bioinformatics Workshop (IBW 2019) in Beijing, during his visit in China.
Shawn gives a poster presentation at the 38th Summer Symposium in Molecular Biology at Penn State University.
July 2019
The lab welcomes undergraduate student Nathan Lee!
May 2019
The lab welcomes undergraduate student Courtney Laughlin and NSF REU summer student Sekou Lowe!
Shawn gives a talk at 2019 BMG Postdoc Symposium.
5 Lab members give poster presentations at the RECOMB 2019 meeting in Washington, DC. Way to go Zhenjia, Shawn, Jeffrey, Wenjing, and Yifan!
Jeffrey Yoo receives a Small Research and Travel Grant from UVA College of Arts and Sciences, for presenting a poster at RECOMB 2019. Congratulations Jeffrey!
April 2019
The Zang Lab welcomes undergraduate students Leyao Li, Megan Grieco, Xinyue Qiu, and Zack Thomas!
Zhenjia presents a poster at AACR Annual Meeting 2019 in Atlanta, GA.
February 2019
The Zang Lab welcomes undergraduate students Ben Ke, Sophie Park, Maggie Bujor, and Ishaan Dey!
December 2018
Zhenjia and Shawn present posters at 2018 Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Departmental Retreat.
November 2018
BART web interface (beta version) is released! Upload a gene list, and let us predict what transcription factors might regulate them through enhancers.
October 2018
Chongzhi is inducted into the MilliPub Club, which honors UVA School of Medicine faculty members who have authored a single paper that has been cited over 1,000 times.
A lab showcase video is released. See above! Thanks Yayi Feng and Raven Chen!
September 2018
The lab welcomes visiting scholar Gang Chen, UVA master student Andrew Lee, undergraduate students Zhou Lu, Sarah Kang, Chuanchuan He, and Allison Ryu!
August 2018
Yifan Zhang, PhD student in the BME program, joins the lab. Welcome Yifan!
Chongzhi receives an award from the Jayne Koskinas Ted Giovanis Foundation for Health and Policy, for his proposal presented at the BD2K 2018 Data Science Innovation Lab!
July 2018
Jiangxue Han, first year master student in Data Science Institute, joins the lab. Welcome Jiangxue!
Chongzhi receives a grant from Phi Beta Psi Charity Trust Fund!
May 2018
Dr. Sheng'en Shawn Hu receives a fellowship grant from UVA Cancer Center Trainee Support RFA. Congratulations Shawn!
Zhenjia, Shawn, and Wen each presents a poster at 2018 UVA Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Annual Symposium. Way to go!
UVA rising second-year student Alexander An joins the lab. Welcome Alex!
April 2018
Zhenjia gives a talk at 2018 BMG Postdoc Symposium.
Visiting scholar Rong-quan He, oncologist and PhD candidate from Guangxi Medical University in China, and UVA students Yushan Feng and Naifei Pan join the lab. Welcome everyone!
March 2018
Zhenjia's BART paper is accepted to Bioinformatics!
February 2018
UVA undergraduate students Jeffrey Yoo, Mike Ferguson, Yuantao Chen, and visting student Wen Shen from Nanjing University join the lab. Welcome everyone!
January 2018
The Zang Lab welcomes visiting student Qi Li, PhD candidate in statistics from Tsinghua University, and UVA undergraduate students Stephany Perez, Javier Valcarcel, and John Zhang!
December 2017
Chongzhi receives an American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant (ACS IRG).
November 2017
A new lab member, Dr. Sheng'en Shawn Hu, joins us as Postdoctoral Research Associate. Welcome Shawn!
Chongzhi gives an invited seminar talk at the Department of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
Zhenjia presents a poster at the Harvard Program in Quantitative Genomics (PQG) Conference in Boston.
October 2017
Zhenjia presents a poster at the 2017 NHLBI Systems Biology Symposium.
September 2017
Chongzhi gives invited seminar talks at the CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Beijing University of Technology, and the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, during his visit in China.
Yayi Feng, UVA second-year student, joins the lab as a research volunteer. Welcome Yayi!
August 2017
July 2017
Yiren Wang joins the lab as a research assistant. Welcome Yiren!
May 2017
The Zang lab welcomes summer students Wuwei Tan and Celina Shih!
January 2017
Dr. Zhenjia Wang joins the lab as Postdoctoral Research Associate. Welcome Zhenjia!