Professional Acitivities

Honors and Awards

Memberships in Professional Societies

Editorial Position, Boards, and Peer-Review Service

Teaching Experience

I was teaching and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students in the Molecular Genetics and Epidemiology:

• Anven Zhang is an undergraduate student in the University Of Michigan College Of Engineering. I mentored him on the molecular genetics of FOXP3 mutation using a mouse model of lung cancer. He was studied with me at the laboratory between 9/2011 and 5/2012.
• Grant Backer is an undergraduate student in the University Of Michigan College Of Literature, Science, and the Arts.  I mentored him on the molecular genetics of FOXP3 mutation in prostate cancer. He was studied with me at the laboratory between 9/2010 and 5/2011.
• Chun-Shu Wong is a graduate student in the Program of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Michigan.  I mentored him on the molecular genetics and epidemiology of CD24 polymorphisms in prostate cancer family between 1/2010 and 6/2010. He is currently studying at the Department of Surgery as a Ph.D. student, University of Michigan.
• Dr. Dongling Li was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Michigan.  I directed her on the identification of disease candidate genes and functional genetic variants in human disease between 6/2008 and 6/2009. She is currently an associate professor at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China.
• Dr. Xianfeng Fan was a visiting graduate student in the University of Michigan. I mentored him on the molecular genetics and epidemiology of CD24 polymorphisms in multiple autoimmune diseases between 6/2008 and 6/2009. He is a postdoctoral fellow working at the City of Hope, NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California.
• Dr. Tony Wang was an undergraduate student at the Ohio State University. I mentored him on the molecular genetics and epidemiology in autoimmune diseases between 6/2004 and 6/2006. He is currently a medical student at the Ohio State University.

Visiting Professorships, Seminars, and Extramural Invited Presentations

• Host institute: Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute, Penn State University
  Title: Genetic Variants & Prostate Cancer Risk
  Date: 2/14/2008
• Name: Immunology Interest Group Meeting, University of Michigan
  Title: Somatic Single-hits Inactivation of X-linked Tumor Suppressor
  Date: 11/9/2009
• Name: Immunology Interest Group Meeting, University of Michigan
  Title: CD24 is a genetic modifier for risk and progression of multiple sclerosis
  Date: 10/11/2010
• Name: Multiple Sclerosis Group Meeting, University of Michigan
  Title: CD24 and Risk of Multiple Sclerosis
  Date: 4/13/2011