The School of Medicine celebrates BIMS students for advancement to PhD candidacy. Congratulations to 3 Zang lab members, Zhaoxia, Mengxue, and Hongpan, on this milestone! See news and pictures here.

The lab receives a second pilot funding award from the UVA Cancer Center's Molecular Genetics and Epigenetics (GEN) program!

Chongzhi gives a talk at Cold Spring Harbor Asia Meeting on Systems Biology of Gene Regulation and Genome Editing in Suzhou, China.

Zhaoxia gives an oral presentation at the annual BMG departmental retreat. Way to go!

Mengxue and Zhenjia's replication origin analysis paper in collaboration with the Anindya Dutta Lab is published in eLife as a reviewed preprint. Look forward to the revision!

Qingying gives a talk at BMG Postdoc Symposium. Way to go Qingying!

Chongzhi receives an R21 grant from NIH!

Zhaoxia and Mengxue pass their qualifying exam and advance to PhD candidacy. Congratulations!

The annual lab retreat is held at Lake Anna, Virginia. Joined by our keynote guest Dr. Jingyi Jessica Li from UCLA and collaborator Dr. Shan Yu from Statistics Department, lab members and families enjoy the breeze on the pontoon and kayaks.

Hongpan is awarded a Wagner Fellowship for the coming academic year. Congratulations!

Hongpan passes his PhD qualifying exam and advances to candidacy. Way to go Hongpan!

The lab receives an administrative supplement grant to the NIH R35 MIRA award to support undergraduate student Jingyi Wang's summer research. Way to go Jingyi!

Chongzhi gives a talk at Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics Gordon Research Conference in Lucca, Italy.

Shawn and Mengxue each presents a poster, while Chongzhi gives an invited talk, at the 2023 AACR Annual Meeting.

The lab receives a pilot funding award from the UVA Cancer Center's Molecular Genetics and Epigenetics (GEN) program!

Press release about Shawn's recent SELMA paper is published at UVA Today and UVA Health Newsroom.

Mengxue gives an oral presentation at the BMG departmental retreat. Way to go!

Shawn's SELMA paper is published in Nature Communications!

The annual lab retreat is held in Hampton, Virginia. Lab members enjoy sunshine and seafoods at Buckroe Beach.

Press release about Hongpan and Shawn's recent Nature Communications paper is published at UVA Health Newsroom with news report at CBS19.

Press release about Shawn's recent Nature Genetics paper is published at UVA Health Newsroom.

The Board of Visitors of UVA officially approves Chongzhi's promotion to Associate Professor, effective July 1, 2022.

Billy's EPICS paper is accepted to Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal!

Hongpan publishes a "Behind the Paper" article at the Nature Portfolio Community website about the recent Nature Communications paper. Way to go!

Congratulations to the graduating class of 2022! Ben Ke will stay at UVA and start his medical school training this fall. Kuki will pursue graduate studies at the University of Oxford. Way to go everyone!

Hongpan and Shawn's paper in collaboration with the Tae-Hee Kim Lab is accepted to Nature Communications!

Shawn's paper in collaboration with the Clint Miller Lab is accepted to Nature Genetics!

Dr. Shengyuan Wang joins the lab as Postdoctoral Research Associate. Welcome Shengyuan!

Hongpan, Yidan, and Billy each presents a poster at Cold Spring Harbor Meeting on Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression.

Shawn's Nature Immunology paper is published online with press release at UVA Today and news report at CBS19.

Zhenjia is honored on the list of UVA researchers with outstanding research contributions in 2021!

Shawn's paper in collaboration with the Hai-Hui Xue Lab is accepted to Nature Immunology!

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.

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.

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.

Chongzhi serves as a mentor at the 2020-2021 Biomedical Data Science Innovation Lab.

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!

Chongzhi gives an invited talk at the Foundations of Biomedical Data Science Seminar Series. The video is available here.

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!

Zack's paper on BART Cancer web resource is accepted to NAR Cancer!

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.

Media reports about the lab's cancer CTCF research are released at UVA Today and local news CBS19!

Chongzhi receives a grant from Virginia Commonwealth Medical Research Board (CHRB)!

The lab welcomes BIMS rotation student Jose Verdezoto!

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!

Zhenjia's paper on cancer CTCF is accepted to Genome Biology!

Zack Thomas presents a poster at ISMB 2020 virtual meeting. Way to go!

Dr. Zhenjia Wang receives a Trainee Support Grant from UVA Cancer Center. Congratulations Zhenjia!

The lab welcomes BIMS rotation student Audrey Putelo!

Chongzhi co-chairs a Minisymposium on Transcriptional Gene Regulation in Cancer at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Virtual Annual Meeting 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!

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!

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.