Jianguo (jeff) Xia
Assistant Professor
Parasitology
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Xia obtained his Bachelor of Medicine (5-year program) from Peking University Health Science Center, China, in 2001. He then moved to Canada in 2004 and obtained his MSc degree (research area: Immunology & Genetics) in 2006, followed by his PhD (research area: Bioinformatics & Metabolomics) in 2011, both at the University of Alberta, Canada. From 2012-2014, he did his postdoctoral training (research area: Next-generation sequencing & Systems biology) at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Since 2015, he has been an Assistant Professor at McGill University. His lab focuses on leveraging bioinformatics, statistics and large data to study the effects of biological (i.e. gut microbiota and helminths), environmental and nutritional factors on health and disease.
Research Interest
Understanding important biological, environmental and nutritional factors on health and disease; developing computational solutions for high-throughput experiments.
Publications
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The human serum metabolome Authors Nikolaos Psychogios, David D Hau, Jun Peng, An Chi Guo, Rupasri Mandal, Souhaila Bouatra, Igor Sinelnikov, Ramanarayan Krishnamurthy, Roman Eisner, Bijaya Gautam, Nelson Young, Jianguo Xia, Craig Knox, Edison Dong, Paul Huang, Zsuzsanna Hollander, Theresa L Pedersen, Steven R Smith, Fiona Bamforth, Russ Greiner, Bruce McManus, John W Newman, Theodore Goodfriend, David S Wishart
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MetaboAnalyst 3.0—making metabolomics more meaningful Authors Jianguo Xia, Igor V Sinelnikov, Beomsoo Han, David S Wishart
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MetaboAnalyst: a web server for metabolomic data analysis and interpretation Authors Jianguo Xia, Nick Psychogios, Nelson Young, David S Wishart
