Shixiang Sun

PhD Candidate

Administration

Email: sunshx (AT) big.ac.cn

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States of America, 2017 - Present

EDUCATION

• PhD in Bioinformatics, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 2017

• MS in Bioinformatics, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 2013

• BE in Automation, China University of Petroleum, China, 2009

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

• Genome instability and Aging Research

• Molecular Evolution of Synonymous Codon Usage

• DNA Methylation and Epigenome Data Integration

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVETIES

• Best Poster Award: Pangenome evidence for higher codon usage bias and stronger translational selection in core genes, 2015, International Conference of Genomics, Xi'an, China.

• Poster: MethBank: a database integrating next-generation sequencing single-base-resolution DNA methylation programming data, 2015, The 8th International Biocuration Conference, Beijing, China

• Presentation: MethBank: a database integrating next-generation sequencing single-base-resolution DNA methylation programming data, 2016, Postgraduate Academic Forum for Frontiers of Genome Science, Beijing, China.

• Presentation: Cassava BAC-pooling strategy simulation and functional analysis, 2012, The 6th National Workshop on Cassava Biotechnology and Function Genomics, Hainan, China.

• Volunteer: Workshop on DNA Methylation and Precision Medicine, June 8-10, 2017, Beijing, China

• Volunteer: The 8th International Biocuration Conference, April 23-26, 2015, Beijing, China

• Volunteer: Life sciences across the strait, December 3-4, 2012, Beijing, China

PUBLICATIONS

1. Su W, Li X, Chen M, Sun S, Wang S, Sheng X, Sun S, Gao C, Hao A, Zhou Y, Sun B, Gao F, Xiao J, Zhang Z, Jiang C: Synonymous codon usage analysis of hand, foot and mouth disease viruses: A comparative study on coxsackievirus A6, A10, A16, and enterovirus 71 from 2008 to 2015. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 2017, 53:212-217. [PMID=28602802]

2. Sun S as joint first author in BIG Data Center Members: The BIG Data Center: from deposition to integration to translation. Nucleic Acids Research 2017, 45(D1):D18-D24. [PMID=27899658]

3. Sun S, Xiao J, Zhang H, Zhang Z: Pangenome evidence for higher codon usage bias and stronger translational selection in core genes of Escherichia coli. Frontiers in Microbiology 2016, 7:1180. [PMID=27536275]

4. Wang G, Sun S, Zhang Z: Randomness in sequence evolution increases over time. PLoS One 2016, 11(5):e0155935. [PMID=27224236]

5. Zou D, Sun S, Li R, Liu J, Zhang J, Zhang Z: MethBank: a database integrating next-generation sequencing single-base-resolution DNA methylation programming data. Nucleic acids research 2015, 43(Database issue):D54-D58. [PMID=25294826]

6. Wang W, Feng B, Xiao J, Xia Z, Zhou X, Li P, Zhang W, Wang Y, Moller BL, Zhang P, Luo MC, Xiao G, Liu J, Yang J, Chen S, Rabinowicz PD, Chen X, Zhang HB, Ceballos H, Lou Q, Zou M, Carvalho LJ, Zeng C, Xia J, Sun S, Fu Y, Wang H, Lu C, Ruan M, Zhou S, Wu Z, Liu H, Kannangara RM, Jorgensen K, Neale RL, Bonde M, Heinz N, Zhu W, Wang S, Zhang Y, Pan K, Wen M, Ma PA, Li Z, Hu M, Liao W, Hu W, Zhang S, Pei J, Guo A, Guo J, Zhang J, Zhang Z, Ye J, Ou W, Ma Y, Liu X, Tallon LJ, Galens K, Ott S, Huang J, Xue J, An F, Yao Q, Lu X, Fregene M, Lopez-Lavalle LA, Wu J, You FM, Chen M, Hu S, Wu G, Zhong S, Ling P, Chen Y, Wang Q, Liu G, Liu B, Li K, Peng M: Cassava genome from a wild ancestor to cultivated varieties. Nature communications 2014, 5:5110. [PMID=25300236]

7. Zhao Y, Wu J, Yang J, Sun S, Xiao J, Yu J: PGAP: pan-genomes analysis pipeline. Bioinformatics 2012, 28(3):416-418. [PMID=22130594]