Xinmeng Jasmine Mu, Ph.D.

 

Email: xmu@broadinstitute.org

Address: 301 Binney St., 5th floor

Cambridge MA 02142

 

 

 

 
Education
 
2007 - 2012
 
 
2007 - 2009
 
 
2003 - 2007
   
   
Research Experience
   
2013-now 
 
  Studying genomic alterations in cancer to elucidate tumor origin, heterogeneity, and drug resistence mechanisms
   
2007 - 2012
Graduate Research Assistant, Yale University
 
 
Developed computational tools for characterizing genomic variants and integrative frameworks for studying selection pressure on functional elements
 
2008
Rotation Student, Yale University
 
 
Developed computational frameworks to identify transposable elements from next-generation sequencing data
 
2008
Rotation Student, Yale University
 
 
Investigated the cooperative inhibition of virus production by distinctive cytokine families and their relation to promoter elements
 
2008
Rotation Student, Yale University
 
 
Investigated the regulation of the immune system by Bcl-rambo gene in mice
 
2006 - 2007
 
 
Studied the impact of plant light signaling on histone modifications
 
2006
 
 
Studied the molecular regulation of poised genes in multipotential hematopoietic cells
 
2005 - 2006
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Peking University
 
Hong-Bing Shu Group
 
Carried out a yeast-two-hybrid screen for human C20-interacting proteins
 
2005
Summer Student, Yale University
 
 
Studied the Arabidopsis light signaling pathway
 
 
International conferences
   
2012 Attendee, 1000 Genomes Project Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
   
2012 Invited talk, XGen Congress and Expo Conference, San Diego, CA
Topic: Analysis of genomic variants in non-coding elements using population-scale sequencing data from the 1000 Genomes Project
   
2012 Moderator, Java and Jive Discussion Group, XGen Congress and Expo Conference, San Diego, CA
Topic: Personal genomics and privacy
   
2011 Attendee, The Biology of Genomes, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
   
2011 Attendee, 1000 Genomes Project Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
   
2010 Poster presentation, Annual Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS) Meeting, Phoenix, AZ
Topic: Nucleotide-resolution analysis of structural variants using BreakSeq and a breakpoint library
   
2010 Poster presentation, The Biology of Genomes Conference - Cold Spring Harbor, NY Spring
Topic: Nucleotide-resolution analysis of structural variants using BreakSeq and a breakpoint library
   
2010 Attendee, 1000 Genomes Project Meetings, Cold Spring Harbor, NY & Washington D.C.
   
2009 Attendee, 1000 Genomes Project Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
   
2007
Volunteer staff, International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Beijing, China.
 
Facilitated with organizing the conference logistics, including registration, plenary sessions, and poster sessions
   
   
Teaching
   
2012 Teaching Fellow, Molecular Biology (MCDB200)
  Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental biology, Yale University
  Instructors: Prof. Anna Pyle, Prof. Stephen Dellaporta, Prof. Farren Isaacs
  Leading weekly discussion sessions on scientific literature reading, grading exams and homework assignments.
   
2010 Teaching Fellow, Molecular Biology (MCDB200)
  Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental biology, Yale University
Instructors: Prof. Stephen Dellaporta, Prof. Sidney Altman, Prof. Thomas Pollard, and Prof. Matthew Rodeheffer
  Leading weekly discussion sessions on scientific literature reading, grading exams and homework assignments.
   
   

Skills

Programming languages & assoc.: Perl, R, Python, C/C++, Shell, and SQL.

Operation systems: Unix/Linux, Mac, Windows.

Mathematical and statistical: Experienced in basic bioinformatics techniques, data mining, machine learning, probability, parameter estimation, linear models, multivariate statistics, data structure and algorithm design, etc.

Computational genomics: Experienced in next-generation sequencing data processing and analysis, genomic variants and evolutionary pressure characterization, networks analysis, and functional elements and pseudogene characterization.

Experimental: Basic techniques for molecular biology, cell biology, biochemistry and immunology.

 

 

Interests

My interests include cancer research, genomics, biotechnology, classical music, seafood, and travelling.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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