Chen Wang


Staff Scientist

Chen Wang

Ph.D.
Staff Scientist

Chen graduated from Louisiana State University with a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and a master’s degree in Applied Statistics. On the dry-lab side, his project focuses on applying Evolutionary Action with statistical methods or machine learning algorithms to identify genes under selection pressure in bacteria. On the wet-lab side, he is responsible in sequencing data generation and experimentally validating candidate driver genes.

Publications

  • Swings T, Marciano D, Atri B, Bosserman R, Wang C, Leysen M, Bonte C, Schalck T, Furey I, Van den Bergh B, Verstraeten N, Christie P, Herman C, Lichtarge O, Michiels J., "CRISPR-FRT targets shared sites in a knock-out collection for off-the-shelf genome editing"