Xianjun Dong, PhD

Dr. Dong is an Associate Professor at Yale School of Medicine, Yale University. Before that, he was a faculty at Harvard Medical School and the founding director of the Genomics and Bioinformatics Hub at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He received his Ph.D. degree in Bioinformatics at the University of Bergen and a Postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is interested in developing and applying computational methods to understand the transcriptional regulation of the human genome, by integrating genomic, transcriptomic, epigenetic, and clinical data from both healthy subjects and patients with neurological diseases. Dr. Dong has 40+ publications with 24,000+ citations and an H-index of 30. He has made several web-based tools to facilitate the research of long-range gene regulation. He has expertise in analyzing various NGS data, including ChIPseq/ATACseq, RNAseq, RNA-PET, CAGE, and WGS data. He was an active member of the ENCODE consortium. He is particularly interested in the non-coding RNAs (miRNA, eRNA, circRNA, etc.) in the human brain. Dr. Dong is recently awarded by the American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA), NIH (R01, U19, U01, R24, and R41), ASAP, etc. See his lab website for more details: http://donglab.org