Zhen Miao
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Seattle, WA USA
I am a Postdoctoral researcher in the Matsen Lab at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle. I work on building antibody language models.
Previously, I completed my PhD in Genomics and Computational Biology at the University of Pennsylvania, where I studied with Prof. Junhyong Kim. My graduate work focused on understanding gene regulation using single cell multi-omics data, and decoding kidney development with multi-omics assays. I developed a tool to quantify snATAC-seq data uniformly for different technologies and estimate insertion rate (see PIC publication). In addition, I developed a tool to conduct differential accessible region test in snATAC-seq data (see PACS publication). Collaborating with Prof. Katalin Susztak, I also characterized the first kidney single cell open chromatin atlas for the developing and adult mouse (see dev_kidney_atlas publication).
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| Mar 14, 2026 | I am excited to start my postdoc in the Matsen Lab at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle! I will be working on building antibody language models. |
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| Nov 7, 2023 |  I will be giving a talk at Cold Spring Harbor Lab (CSHL) Single Cell Analysis Meeting at Nov 8-11! Title: Model-based compound hypothesis testing for snATAC-seq data with PACS |
| Apr 1, 2023 | I started my master’s thesis project with Prof. Nancy Zhang at the Wharton School Department of Statistics. |
| Jul 15, 2022 |  I am honored to be one of six recipients of the 2022Blavatnik Family Fellowship in Biomedical Research! |
| Oct 7, 2019 |  I am honored to get the ASHG Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award (semi-finalist)! |
