Dr. Chaochun Wei, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

News

• November 4, 2014, SJTU-software iGEM team won 2014 iGEM competition Gold Medal Award. Dr. Wei was one of the founders and instructors of SJTU-software iGEM team.

• Aug. 25, 2014, Dr. Wei received an RMB 800K NSFC fund to find and characterize sequence modules with complex structures in metagenomes.

• Jan. 14, 2014, Dr. Wei received an National High-Tech R&D Program (863)RMB 650,000 to create a new generation of microbial genome analysis system. (Total fund RMB 7.2M, PI: Prof. Yin Jiang, SCBIT)

• Oct. 22, 2013, graduate student Ben Jia Winned the SJTU AMD HPC Award. Congratulations!

• Dec. 4, 2012, Prof. Philip Green, one of the leading scientists in Genomics, visited Shanghai Jiao Tong University and give a talk "How much of the human genome is functional? " .

• Oct.11,2012, Dr. Wei received an RMB 1.04M fund from the National Basic Research Program of China (973) about the degeneration mechanism and recovery potential of coral reefs in South China Sea. (total fund 5.72M, PI: Zhiyong Li, SJTU).

• Aug. 17, 2012, Dr. Wei received an RMB 800,000 NSFC fund to find and characterize genes containing repeat regions.

• Sept. 25, 2010 , Prof. Gary Stormo , one of the world-renowned pioneers in bioinformatics and genomics, visited Shanghai Jiao Tong University and give a talk "Recognition Models for Protein-DNA Interaction Specificity".

• June 29, 2010 , Prof. Michael Brent from WashU visited us in Shanghai Jiao Tong University and gave a talk "Kinetic Models of Gene Regulatory Networks".

• March 1, 2010 , Dr. Wei was invited by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) to give a talk in Japan-Korea-China Symposium on Bioinformatics held in Tokyo,Japan. Title of the talk: "Finding diversity of a microbe community: 16S rRNA or metagenome shotgun sequencing method?"

• November 2, 2009, SJTU iGEM team won 2009 iGEM competition Gold Medal Award. Dr. Wei was the founder of SJTU iGEM team and one of the four instructors.

• September 5, 2009, Dr. Wei recieved an RMB300,000 NSFC fund to develope an algorithm to measure the impact of SNPs on gene structure variations.

• August 19, 2009, Dr. Wei organized the Symposium "Analysis of Complex Biological Systems" , in Shanghai, China

• August 16-22, 2009, Dr. Wei organized the EMBO World Practical Course: Computational Biology from (meta)genomes to phenotype and environment , in Shanghai, China

• June 1, 2009, Dr. Wei recieved an RMB1,610,000 fund to develope a system for metagenome data collection and analysis.

 

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