Yong Lu, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard Medical School 250 Longwood Avenue, SGMB-322 Boston, MA 02115 ...@hms.harvard.edu Phone: 617 432-3552 (My name in Chinese: 吕邕)

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Fritz Roth at Harvard Medical School.

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. My advisors at CMU were Drs. Ziv Bar-Joseph and Roni Rosenfeld. I was a member of the CMU Systems Biology Group.

My OpenPGP Public Key ID is B397E6F6, and the fingerprint is

689D 99E1 0D99 3062 18D1  
0424 8A91 84D6 B397 E6F6

Publications

8. L. Li, Y. Lu, L.X. Qin, Z. Bar-Joseph, M. Werner-Washburne and L.L. Breeden,
   Budding yeast SSD1-V regulates transcript levels of many longevity genes and extends chronological life span in purified quiescent cells, Mol Biol Cell, 2009; doi: 10.1091/mbc.E09-04-0347.
   [abstract | pdf]
   
   
7. Y. Lu, P. Huggins and Z. Bar-Joseph,
   Cross species analysis of microarray expression data, Bioinformatics 2009; doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp247.
   [ abstract | pdf ]
   
   
6. Y. Lu, R. Rosenfeld, G.J. Nau and Z. Bar-Joseph,
   Cross species expression analysis of innate immune response, RECOMB 2009.
   [ conference website | proceedings ]
   
   
5. Y. Lu, R. Rosenfeld, I. Simon, G.J. Nau and Z. Bar-Joseph,
   A Probabilistic Generative Model for GO Enrichment Analysis, Nucleic Acids Research 2008, doi:10.1093/nar/gkn434.
   (Also presented at RECOMB Satellite Conference on Systems Biology, 2007.)
   [ abstract | html | pdf | conference website ]
   
   
4. Y. Lu, S. Mahony, P.V. Benos, R. Rosenfeld, I. Simon, L.L. Breeden and Z. Bar-Joseph,
   Selecting a threshold for identifying cell cycle genes, Genome Biology, 9:403, 2008.
   [ html | pdf ] (correspondence -- our response is in the second part)
   
   
3. Z. Bar-Joseph, Z. Siegfried, M. Brandeis, B. Brors, Y. Lu, R. Eils, B. D. Dynlacht and I. Simon,
   Genome-wide transcriptional analysis of the human cell cycle identifies genes differentially regulated in normal and cancer cells, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 105:955-960, 2008
   (Also accepted to ISMB 2008 Highlights Track)
   [ html | pdf | supporting information ]
   
   
2. Y. Lu, S. Mahony, P.V. Benos, R. Rosenfeld, I. Simon, L.L. Breeden and Z. Bar-Joseph,
   Combined Analysis Reveals a Core Set of Cycling Genes, Genome Biology, 8:R146, 2007
   (Also presented at ISMB 2008 Highlights Track, Jul 19-23, Toronto)
   

   [ pdf | html | supplements | supporting website ]

   Must Read

   (Ranked 2nd in Hidden Jewels)

   
   
1. Y. Lu, R. Rosenfeld and Z. Bar-Joseph,
   Identifying Cycling Genes by Combining Sequence Homology and Expression Data, Bioinformatics, 22(14):e314-322, 2006.
   Presented at ISMB 2006, Aug 7-10, Fortaleza, Brazil. (acceptance rate: 16.5%)
   [ bib | .pdf | http ]
   
   

Teaching

• TA for Machine Learning (10-601), Carnegie Mellon, Fall 2007.
• TA for Formal Languages, Automata, and Computation (15-453), Carnegie Mellon, Spring 2008.

Press

• PNAS Paper: Post Gazette, WTAE, CMU News Release