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Asistant Professor, The Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery

Education & Training

• Undergraduate Degree:
  Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
• Master's of Science Degree:
  Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma
• Doctor of Philosophy, Molecular and Human Genetics:
  Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
• Fellowship:
  Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
  Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Selected Bibliography

• Rozowsky, J., Wu, J.Q., Lian, Z., Nagalakshmi, U., Korbel, J.O., Kapranov, P., Zheng, D., Dyke, S., Newburger, P., Miller, P., Gingeras, T.R., Weissman, S., Gerstein, M., and Snyder, M. (2006). Novel transcribed regions in the human genome. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 71:111-6.
• Wu, J. Q. *, Tenney, A.*, Langton L, Klueh P, Quatrano R, Brent M. R. (2007). A tale of two templates: Automatically resolving double traces has many applications, including efficient PCR-based elucidation of alternative splices. Genome Res. 17 :212-218. (*authors contribute equally to this work)
• Rozowsky, J., Newburger, D., Sayward, F., Wu, J. Q., Jordan, G., Korbel, J., Nagalakshmi, U., Yang, J., Zheng, D., Guigo, R., Gingeras, T., Weissman, S., Miller, P., Snyder M. and Gerstein M. (2007). Analysis and Classification of Unannotated Transcription within the ENCODE Regions: Associating Transcription with Known and Novel Loci. Genome Res. 17:732-45.
• Wu, J. Q.*, Trinklein, N.D.*, Kara�z, U.*, Halees, A.*, Aldred, S.F., Collins, P.J., Zheng, D., Zhang, Z., Gerstein, M., Snyder, M., Myers, R.M., and Weng, Z. P. (2007). Integrated analysis of experimental data sets reveals many novel promoters in 1% of the human genome. Genome Res. 17:720-31. (*authors contribute equally to this work)
• The ENCODE Project Consortium (2007). The ENCODE pilot project: identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome. Nature. 447:799-816.
• Wu, J. Q., Du, J., Rozowsky, J., Zhang, Z., Weissman, S., Gerstein, M., Snyder, M. (2008). Systematic analysis of transcribed loci in selected ENCODE regions using RACE sequencing. Genome Biology. 9(1):R3
• Wu, J. Q. and Snyder, M. (2008). RNA polymerase II promoter proximal stalling: Loading at the start line prepares genes for a sprint. Genome Biology. 9:220
• The MGC Project Team. (2009). The Completion of the Mammalian Gene Collection. Genome Res 19:2324-2333
• Wu, J. Q., Lian, J., Ye, Z. J., Snyder, M., and Weissman, S. Transcriptional Regulation Underlying the Mouse EML Hematopoietic Precursor Cell Self-renewal and Differentiation. In Preparation.
• Wu, J. Q., Habegger, L., Noisa, P., Szekely, A., Qiu, C., Hutchison, S., Raha, D., Lin, H., Egholm, M., Weissman, S., Cui, W., Gerstein, M., and Snyder, M. (2010). Dynamic Transcriptomes during Neural Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells Revealed by Integrating Short, Long, and Paired-end Sequencing. PNAS. 107: 5254-5259.