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05 September 2025
#TechTalk: What is the Computational Biology Technology Center?
A Q&A with Hua Li, Director of Computational Biology, and Madelaine Gogol, Manager, Computational Biology
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M.S., Forestry Genetics, Beijing Forestry University, China
Ph.D., Bioinformatics, North Carolina State University
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Programming Pre-Course
Hua Li received an M.S. in forestry genetics from Beijing Forestry University in China and a Ph.D. in bioinformatics from North Carolina State University. During her postdoctoral studies at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, she developed software (in C, SAS and R) for mass Affymetrix gene-chip data analysis and designed greenhouse and Affymetrix gene expression experiments. In 2006, she joined the Stowers Institute and completed her postdoctoral training in 2007. During that time, Li applied bi-variate analysis to improve the power of genome-wide association studies and constructed a Bayesian network using relaxed gene ordering. She became the Computational Biology group leader in 2009 and Head of Computational Biology in 2017. With over 10 years of bioinformatics experience, Li was appointed Director of Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Biostatistics in 2019.
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05 September 2025
A Q&A with Hua Li, Director of Computational Biology, and Madelaine Gogol, Manager, Computational Biology
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12 May 2022
New research examines how cavefish developed unique metabolic adaptations to survive in nutrient-scarce environments.
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28 March 2022
Unsung molecular heroes link steps in gene expression, providing another hint to understanding biological complexity in humans
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Zeng A, Li H, Guo L, Gao X, McKinney S, Wang Y, Yu Z, Park J, Semerad C, Ross E, Cheng LC, Davies E, Lei K, Wang W, Perera A, Hall K, Peak A, Box A, Sánchez Alvarado A. Cell. 2018;173:1593-1608.e20.
Set2 methylation of histone H3 lysine36 suppresses histone exchange on transcribed genes.
Venkatesh S, Smolle M, Li H, Gogol MM, Saint M, Kumar S, Natarajan K, Workman JL. Nature 2012;489:452-455.
Qian P, De Kumar B, He XC, Nolte C, Gogol M, Ahn Y, Chen S, Li Z, Xu H, Perry JM, Hu D, Tao F, Zhao M, Han Y, Hall K, Peak A, Paulson A, Zhao C, Venkatraman A, Box A, Perera A, Haug JS, Parmely T, Li H, Krumlauf R, Li L. Cell Stem Cell. 2018;22:740-754 e747.