Zhen Miao
301 Lynch Laboratory
433 S University Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
I am a Ph.D. candidate and the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine. I am in the Genomics and Computational Biology (GCB) Graduate Program and Department of Biology. My advisor is Prof. Junhyong Kim at the Department of Biology.
I am interested in understanding gene regulation using single cell multi-omics data, and decoding kidney development with multi-omics assays. For the past four years, I have been working on a specific -omics data, the snATAC-seq data. I have developed a tool to quantify snATAC-seq data uniformly for different technologies and estimate insertion rate (see PIC publication). In addition, I have developed a tool to conduct differential accessible region test in snATAC-seq data (see PACS publication). Collaborating with Prof. Katalin Susztak, I have also characterized the first kidney single cell open chromatin atlas for the developing and adult mouse (see dev_kidney_atlas publication).
news
| 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 |
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| 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)! |
