Applied Scientist at Microsoft Research, Ph.D. in Evolutionary biology & MS in statistics. ( ^ω^ )

Redmond, WA
Joined February 2015
Check out our new paper on Nature showing that synonymous mutations are mostly strongly non-neutral. nature.com/articles/s41586-0… with the accompanied News and views (nature.com/articles/d41586-0…). The first author is Xukang Shen, and corresponding author is my Ph.D. advisor George Zhang.
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Just published #OnlineFirst: Genetic Determinants of #EGFR-Driven #LungCancer Growth and Therapeutic Response In Vivo by @GiorgiaFoggetti, @lichuan_Bio, Hongchen Cai, Monte Winslow, @politikaterina, and colleagues. @YaleCancer @StanfordMed bit.ly/3qCtMvb
Incredible to see this out. A truly massive amount of work and an exciting discovery of the complex taxonomy of the tumor suppressor action. Congratulations to everyone but first and foremost to Hongchen Cai, Su Kit Chew, and @lichuan_Bio!! Congratulations!!
Now online in @CD_AACR: A functional taxonomy of tumor suppression in oncogenic #KRAS-driven #lungcancer by @PetrovADmitri @CharlesSwanton Monte Winslow and colleagues @StanfordMed @TheCrick @uclcancer cancerdiscovery.aacrjournals…
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I would like to thank my co-authors, special thanks to Wen-yang Lin who performed the mouse work, and Hira who collected clinical data, and my advisor Dmitri Petrov and Monte Winslow! You are the best!
My Ph.D. work with Dr. George Zhang about readthrough being nonadaptive in general is finally online. ^_^ #PLOSGenetics: Stop-codon read-through arises largely from molecular errors and is generally nonadaptive dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.…
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So happy to be selected as an awardee for the Damon Runyon Fellowship! We will share more of our work on cancer growth and evolution in the future! xitter.cf/PetrovADmitri/status/9…
Extremely happy to report that @lichuan_Biohas been selected as one of the 2018 Damon Runyan Fellows! The first Damon Runyan Fellow in our lab as we are starting to focus on evolutionary biology on cancer growth more and more. damonrunyon.org/our-strategy
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My new publication on multi-environment fitness landscapes of a tRNA gene: nature.com/articles/s41559-0…. ^_^ I will also do a presentation on this topic at the PEQG conference next month.
Started my postdoc at Dr. Petrov's lab a month ago~(*^o^*)
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