Chaolin Zhang
Assistant Professor
Department of Systems Biology
Columbia University
United States of America
Biography
"Chaolin Zhang uses a combination of computational and experimental methods to infer RNA regulatory networks in the nervous system. In particular, he is interested in characterizing the regulatory networks that specify neuronal cell types, and how how these networks can be compromised in certain pathologic contexts, such as brain tumors and neurodegenerative diseases. After completing his PhD training at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University, he was a member of Robert Darnell’s laboratory at the Rockefeller University, initially as a postdoctoral associate and later as a research assistant professor. While there, he studied neuron-specific RNA regulatory networks by developing an integrative modeling approach that combines multiple types of high-throughput data, including transcriptome profiles and protein-RNA interaction maps. He joined the Columbia Initiative in Systems Biology in 2012."
Research Interest
Systems Biology
Publications
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Wu J, Anczukow O, Krainer AR, Zhang MQ, Zhang C. Olego)2013_ Fast and sensitive mapping of spliced mRNA-Seq reads using small seeds. Nucleic Acids Res.
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Zhang C, Lee K-Y, Swanson MS, Darnell RB(2013)Predicting clustered RNA-binding protein motif sites in the mammalian genome. Nucleic Acids Res.
