• September 2016: We received a research grant from the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.
  • September 2016: We received an R01 grant from the NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative to develop statistical methods and informatics pipelines for integrating transcriptomic and proteomic big data.
  • July 2016: We received a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) R01 grant (with Drs. Douglas Black and Kathrin Plath) to study alternative splicing regulation in the mammalian brain.
  • July 2016: Jinkai’s work on m6A-LAIC-seq (m6A level and isoform characterization sequencing) is published by Nature Methods. See UCLA news release, GenomeWeb news story, and News & Views by Nature Methods.
  • June 2016: Shihao’s SURVIV paper is published by Nature Communications. SURVIV is a statistical method for survival analysis of mRNA isoform variation in cancer transcriptomes. See UCLA news release and GenomeWeb news story.
  • January 2016: Lan’s work on primate-specific, protein-coding Alu exons is published by Genome Biology (also see “Proteome diversification by genomic parasites”, research highlight by Eli Eisenberg).
  • Nov 2014: Shihao and Juw Won’s rMATS paper has been accepted for publication by PNAS. rMATS is a computational tool to detect differential alternative splicing events from replicate RNA-Seq data. [rMATS software]
  • Oct 2014: Shihao received a 2-year Human Biology Fellowship from the Huntington’s Disease Society of America (HDSA) on “Transcriptome Isoform Networks in Huntington’s Disease”. Congratulations! [HDSA press release]
  • Oct 2014: We received a Developmental Research Program Award from the UCLA SPORE in Prostate Cancer.
  • Sep 2014: Jinkai Wang’s work in collaboration with Drs. Cosmas Giallourakis (MGH) and Howard Chang (Stanford) on m6A RNA methylation of mammalian embryonic stem cells is in press at Cell Stem Cell.
  • Sep 2014: We received a 2-year R01 grant from the NIH Roadmap Initiative to study epigenomic control of RNA processing.
  • Aug 2014: Our work in collaboration with Dr. Yang Shi (Harvard) on a chromatin regulator of intron retention has been accepted for publication by Molecular Cell.
  • Oct 2013: Our work with Beverly Davidson (University of Iowa) on mapping microRNA binding sites in the human brain will appear in the journal Neuron.
  • Sep 2013: We received a 5-year NIH R01 grant (R01NS076631) from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) to study the transcriptome landscape of Huntington’s disease.
  • Jun 2013: Dr. Yi Xing is appointed as a regular member of the NIH GCAT (Genomics, Computational Biology and Technology) study section (2013-2019).
  • Jun 2013: We received a one-year research award from the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center (BSCRC).
  • Feb 2013: Dr. Yi Xing received a 2013 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. [Sloan Foundation news] [UCLA news]
  • Jan 2013: Xing lab moved to the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics at UCLA.
  • Dec 2012: Shihao Shen received his Ph.D. degree in Biostatistics.
  • Dec 2012: Ji Wan received his Ph.D. degree in Genetics.
  • Jul 2011: Lan Lin received a KL2 career development award in clinical and translational science to develop RNA based translational genomics technologies.
  • Mar 2011: Our research about primate-specific Alu exons was featured in the NIH Biomedical Beat news digest.
  • Feb 2011: We received a 4-year research grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund to study transcriptome genetics of human pregnancy.
  • Jan 2011: Group research accepted for publication by PNAS and Human Molecular Genetics.
  • Jan 2011: Shihao Shen received a University of Iowa Graduate College Strategic Initiative Fellowship.
  • Jul 2010: We received NIH R21 grants from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI).
  • Apr 2010: We received a 5-year NIH R01 grant (R01GM088342) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
  • Feb 2010: We received a NIDDK pilot grant from the UI Center for Gene Therapy.
  • Jan 2010: We received a Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Award from the March of Dimes Foundation.
  • Jan 2010: Lan Lin received a postdoctoral travel fellowship to the ASBMB (American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) annual meeting.
  • Oct 2009: We received a junior faculty award from the Edward Mallinckrodt Jr Foundation, and research grants from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the FSH Society.
  • Mar 2009: We received a Department of Internal Medicine 2009 pilot grant on clinical and translational research.
  • Mar 2009: Our paper “Large-scale analysis of exonized mammalian-wide interspersed repeats (MIRs) in primate genomes” is accepted by Human Molecular Genetics.
  • Dec 2008: Congratulations to Lan Lin for winning an ASBMB (American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Postdoctoral Travel Fellowship!
  • Nov 2008: We received a research grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute on “Statistical Analysis of Exon Arrays” (R01-HG004634 to Wing Hung Wong and Yi Xing).
  • Oct 2008: Seiko Sato joins the lab as a technician. Seiko received her BS in Biology from Cornell University.
  • Sept 2008: Congratulations to Anne Tye, who won an ICRU (Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates) Scholar Assistant Award!
  • Jan 2008: Our Genes and Development 2007 article (Genes Dev. 21, 2963-2975) is highlighted by Cell Leading Edge.
  • Jan 2008: book chapter on alternative splicing in the book of “Alternative Splicing in the Postgenomic Era”, Benjamin Blencowe and Brenton Graveley eds. [order book ]
  • Dec 2007: we received a research grant from the Hereditary Disease Foundation.
  • Oct 2007: a new paper “Global analysis of alternative splicing differences between humans and chimpanzees” is accepted by Genes and Development. [news report]
  • NSF-IMA Workshop: RNA in Biology, Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, 10/29/2007-11/02/2007, Minneapolis, MN, USA