Education

Ph.D Bioinformatics, North Carolina State University, 2016

Current position

Postdoc researcher, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Publications

1. Hu, Q., Merchante, C., Stepanova, A. N., Alonso, J. M. and Heber, S. (2016). Genome-Wide Search for Translated Upstream Open Reading Frames in Arabidopsis Thaliana. IEEE Trans Nanobioscience 15(2): 148-157.

2. Hu, Q., Merchante, C., Stepanova, A. N., Alonso, J. M. and Heber, S. (2015). Mining Transcript Features Related to Translation in Arabidopsis Genome Using LASSO and Random Forest. Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS), pp.1-6, 15-17.

3. Merchante, C., Brumos, J., Yun, J., Hu, Q., Spencer, K. R., Enriquez, P., Binder, B. M., Heber, S., Stepanova, A. N. and Alonso, J. M. (2015). Gene-specific translation regulation mediated by the hormone-signaling molecule EIN2. Cell 163(3): 684-697.

4. Hu, Q., Merchante, C., Stepanova, A. N., Alonso, J. M. and Heber, S. (2015). A Stacking-Based Approach to Identify Translated Upstream Open Reading Frames in Arabidopsis Thaliana. Bioinformatics Research and Applications pp. 138-149.

5. Villarino, G. H., Hu, Q., Manrique, S., Flores-Vergara, M., Sehra, B., Robles, L., Brumos, J., Stepanova, A. N., Colombo, L., Sundberg, E., Heber, S. and Franks, R. G. (2016). Transcriptomic Signature of the SHATTERPROOF2 Expression Domain Reveals the Meristematic Nature of Arabidopsis Gynoecial Medial Domain. Plant Physiol 171(1): 42-61.

6. Howard, B. E., Hu, Q., Babaoglu, A. C., Chandra, M., Borghi, M., Tan, X., He, L., Winter-Sederoff, H., Gassmann, W., Veronese, P. and Heber, S. (2013). High-throughput RNA sequencing of pseudomonas-infected Arabidopsis reveals hidden transcriptome complexity and novel splice variants. PLoS One 8(10): e74183.