Ting Wang, PhD, the Sanford C. and Karen P. Loewentheil Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine, was recently named as leader for part of the Data Coordinating Center for the new Impact of Genomic Variation on Function (IGVF)...
The Wang Lab has contributed to two new papers. The first, “Epigenetic therapies in ovarian cancer alter repetitive element expression in a TP53-dependent manner,” was recently published in Cancer Research. The second, “OCT4 cooperates with distinct...
The Wang Lab contributed to a paper published in Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics, “AIAP: A Quality Control and Integrative Analysis Package to Improve ATAC-seq Data Analysis.” Congratulations, all!
The Wang Lab published a paper in Communications Biology, “Common DNA methylation dynamics in endometriod adenocarcinoma and glioblastoma suggest universal epigenomic alterations in tumorigenesis.” Jennifer Flynn, a graduate student in the lab, is lead...
The Wang Lab published a paper in Genome Research, “Epigenomic differences in the human and chimpanzee genomes are associated with structural variation.” Xiaoyu Zhuo, a postdoc in the lab, is leader author on the paper. Ting Wang, PhD, Professor of...
The Wang Lab published a paper in Genome Research, “Transcript assembly improves expression quantification of transposable elements in single-cell RNA-seq data.” Wanqing Shao, a postdoc in the lab, is lead author on the paper. Ting Wang, PhD, Professor of...
The Wang Lab contributed to a new paper in Nature, “A map of cis-regulatory elements and 3D genome structures in zebrafish.” Senior authors include Feng Yue, PhD, Director, Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine – Center for Advanced...
The Wang Lab contributed to a new paper in Cell Reports, “Requisite Chromatin Remodeling for Myeloid and Erythroid Lineage Differentiation from Erythromyeloid Progenitors.” Postdoc Hyung Joo Lee is an author, as well as staff scientist Xiaoyun Xing. Ting...
The Wang Lab recently collaborated on a paper in Nature, “Cell-type-specific 3D epigenomes in the developing human cortex.” Senior authors include Dr. Yin Shen from the University of California, San Francisco; Dr. Arnold Kriegstein from the University of...
The Wang Lab published a paper recently in Genome Biology, “Tissue-specific usage of transposable element-derived promoters in mouse development.” Benpeng Miao, a postdoc in the Wang Lab, is lead author on the paper. Ting Wang, PhD, Professor of Genetics...
The Mitra Lab recently had a paper accepted in Bioinformatics, “The qBED track: a novel genome browser visualization for point processes.” Arnav Moudgil, a graduate student in the Mitra Lab, is first author. The Wang Lab contributed to the paper. Ting...
The Wang Lab recently published a new paper in Science Advances, “Cellular diversity of the regenerating caudal fin.” Yiran Hou, a graduate student in the lab, is first author on the paper. Ting Wang, Professor of Genetics, Professor of Computer Science...
The Wang Lab has a new preprint, “Transcript assembly improves expression quantification of transposable elements in single cell RNA-seq data.” Wanqing Shao, a postdoc in the lab, is first author on the preprint. Ting Wang, PhD, Professor of Genetics,...
The Wang Lab and Dougherty Lab published a paper recently in Science Advances, “DeepH&M: Estimating single-CpG hydroxymethylation and methylation levels from enrichment and restriction enzyme sequencing methods.” Yu He, a former graduate student in the...
Arnav Moudgil, a graduate student in the Mitra Lab, has a new preprint, “The qBED track: a novel genome browser visualization for point processes.” Moudgil is a first author and Ting Wang, PhD, the Sanford and Karen Loewentheil Distinguished Professor of...
The Wang Lab recently had a paper published in Nature, “A genomic and epigenomic atlas of prostate cancer in Asian populations.” Hyung Joo Lee, a postdoc in the lab, is a first author on the paper. Ting Wang, Professor of Genetics, Professor of Computer...
Washington University School of Medicine researchers are tackling the coronavirus pandemic, and Ting Wang, the Sanford and Karen Loewentheil Distinguished Professor of Medicine, and his lab are getting in on the effort. The lab built a genome browser to help...
The Wang Lab has a new paper published in Genome Biology, “Regenerating zebrafish fin epigenome is characterized by stable lineage-specific DNA methylation and dynamic chromatin accessibility.” Hyung Joo Lee, a postdoc in the lab, is first author on the...
The Wang Lab had a paper published recently in eLife, “Derivation of trophoblast stem cells from naïve human pluripotent stem cells.” Authors include Xiaoyun Xing, a staff scientist in the Wang Lab; Ting Wang, PhD, Professor of Genetics, Professor of...
The Wang Lab has released a new WashU Virus Genome Browser. “In addition to several included data tracks, the browser supports user-uploaded sequences, as well as two visualization platforms: a genomic track view and a phylogenetic tree view,” the lab said...
Mayank Choudhary, a graduate student in the Wang Lab, had a paper published recently in Genome Biology. The paper, “Co-opted transposons help perpetuate conserved higher-order chromosomal structures,” shows that transposable elements heavily contribute to...
The Wang Lab published a paper recently in Nature Communications, “The epigenomic landscape of transposable elements across normal human development and anatomy.” Erica Pehrsson, a postdoc in the Wang Lab, is first author on the paper. Mayank Choudhary and...
The Wang Lab published a new paper in Nucleic Acids Research, “WashU Epigenome Browser update 2019.” The paper discusses new features of the WashU Epigenome Browser including visualization using virtual reality, expanded public data hubs, and a a feature...
The Wang Lab recently published a paper in Nature Communications. The paper, “Epigenetic dysregulation of enhancers in neurons is associated with Alzheimer’s disease pathology and cognitive symptoms,” shows that “AD neurons have a large cluster of...
A recent paper from the Wang Lab, “Transposable elements drive widespread expression of oncogenes in human cancers,” was recommended in F1000Prime as being of special significance in its field by F1000 Faculty Member Michael Zhang, Cecil H. and Ida Green...
The Wang Lab had a recent paper accepted by Nucleic Acids Research. The paper, “FeatSNP: An Interactive Database for Brain-Specific Epigenetic Annotation of Human SNPs,” discusses FeatSNP, an online tool and curated database for exploring 81 million common...
Ting Wang, Ph.D., The Sanford and Karen Loewentheil Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, recently published a paper in Frontiers in Genetics. The paper, “FeatSNP: An Interactive Database for Brain-Specific...
A new study from the Wang Lab at Washington University School of Medicine heavily implicates a genetic phenomenon known as “jumping genes” in the growth of tumors. The study, published March 29 in Nature Genetics, opens the door for new research for future...
The Wang lab published an article recently in Nature Genetics. The article, “Transposable elements drive widespread expression of oncogenes in human cancers,” discusses results that “characterize the global profile of (transposable element)...
Ting Wang, Ph.D., was installed yesterday as the Sanford C. and Karen P. Loewentheil Distinguished Professorship in the School of Medicine in an afternoon ceremony. Mark S. Wrighton, Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis, David H. Perlmutter, M.D., George...
The Wang lab has a preprint on bioRxiv. The study, “Co-opted transposons help perpetuate conserved higher-order chromosomal structures,” shows that transposable elements (TEs) contribute regulatory plasticity that helps maintain conserved genome...
Ting Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and his lab recently had a paper published in Biometrics. The paper, “A non‐randomized procedure for large‐scale heterogeneous multiple...
The Wang lab and the Dougherty lab had a paper published recently in Cell Reports. The paper, “Characterization of a Mouse Model of Börjeson-Forssman-Lehmann Syndrome,” shows that PHF6-regulated genes are overrepresented in gene signatures and modules that...
Ting Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics, is a co-corresponding author on a paper published recently. The paper, “The 3D Genome Browser: a web-based browser for visualizing 3D genome organization and long-range chromatin...
The Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences (DBBS) recently held its annual retreat for its Molecular Genetics and Genomics (MGG), Computational and Systems Biology (CSB), and Human and Statistical Genetics (HSG) programs. Faculty members honored program...
