Jianguo (jeff) Xia
Assistant Professor
Animal Science
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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MetaboAnalyst 2.0—a comprehensive server for metabolomic data analysis Authors Jianguo Xia, Rupasri Mandal, Igor V Sinelnikov, David Broadhurst, David S Wishart
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HMDB: a knowledgebase for the human metabolome Authors David S Wishart, Craig Knox, An Chi Guo, Roman Eisner, Nelson Young, Bijaya Gautam, David D Hau, Nick Psychogios, Edison Dong, Souhaila Bouatra, Rupasri Mandal, Igor Sinelnikov, Jianguo Xia, Leslie Jia, Joseph A Cruz, Emilia Lim, Constance A Sobsey, Savita Shrivastava, Paul Huang, Philip Liu, Lydia Fang, Jun Peng, Ryan Fradette, Dean Cheng, Dan Tzur, Melisa Clements, Avalyn Lewis, Andrea De Souza, Azaret Zuniga, Margot Dawe, Yeping Xiong, Derrick Clive, Russ Greiner, Alsu Nazyrova, Rustem Shaykhutdinov, Liang Li, Hans J Vogel, Ian Forsythe
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HMDB 3.0—the human metabolome database in 2013 Authors David S Wishart, Timothy Jewison, An Chi Guo, Michael Wilson, Craig Knox, Yifeng Liu, Yannick Djoumbou, Rupasri Mandal, Farid Aziat, Edison Dong, Souhaila Bouatra, Igor Sinelnikov, David Arndt, Jianguo Xia, Philip Liu, Faizath Yallou, Trent Bjorndahl, Rolando Perez-Pineiro, Roman Eisner, Felicity Allen, Vanessa Neveu, Russ Greiner, Augustin Scalbert
