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Jie Zheng
Experience:
  • Research Associate / 2012 - Present
    University of Pennsylvania
  • Post-doctoral Researcher / 2009 - 2011
    University of Pennsylvania
  • Web Application Developer / 1999 - 2001
    Loki Technologies Inc
Education:
  • Ph.D. / Biology - 2009 - Queen's University
  • M.S. / Computer Sciences - 1999 - Towson University
Projects:
Research Interests:
  • Biomedical ontology development including Ontology for Biomedical Investigation (OBI), Experimental Factor Ontology (EFO), and Ontology for Parasite Lifecycle (OPL)
  • Application of ontologies to metadata analysis, biomedical data collection forum design, and clinical and biological data integration and sharing
Recent Publications:
  • Parikh PP, Zheng J, Logan-Klumper F, Stoeckert CJ Jr, Louis C, Topalis P, Protasio AV, Sheth AP, Carrington M, Berriman M, Sahoo SS. (2012) The Ontology for Parasite Lifecycle (OPL): towards a consistent vocabulary of lifecycle stages in parasitic organisms. J Biomed Semantics. 2012 May 23;3(1):5.
  • Zheng J, Stoyanovich J, Manduchi E, Liu J, Stoeckert CJ Jr. (2011) AnnotCompute: annotation-based exploration and meta-analysis of genomics experiments. Database (Oxford). 2011:bar045.
  • In alphabetic order: Brinkman RR, Courtot M, Derom D, Fostel JM, He Y, Lord P, Malone J, Parkinson H, Peters B, Rocca-Serra P, Ruttenberg A, Sansone SA, Soldatova LN, Stoeckert CJ Jr, Turner JA, Zheng J, OBI consortium. (2010) Modeling biomedical experimental processes with OBI. J Biomed Semantics. 1 Suppl 1:S7.
  • Malone J, Holloway E, Adamusiak T, Kapushesky M, Zheng J, Kolesnikov N, Zhukova A, Brazma A, Parkinson H. (2010) Modeling sample variables with an Experimental Factor Ontology. Bioinformatics. 26(8):1112-8.
  • Martin I, Jones MA, Rhodenizer D, Zheng J, Warrick JM, Seroude L, Grotewiel M (2009) Sod2 knockdown in the musculature has whole-organism consequences in Drosophila. Free Radic. Biol. Med. 47, 803–813.
  • Poirier L, Shane A, Zheng J, and Seroude L. (2008) Characterization of the Drosophila Gene-Switch system in aging studies: a cautionary tale. Aging Cell 7: 758-770.
  • Zheng J, Edelman SW, Tharmarajah G, Walker DW, Pletcher SD, Seroude L. (2005) Differential patterns of apoptosis in response to aging in Drosophila. PNAS 102:12083-88.

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