Zhiping Weng
Alma materUniversity of Science and Technology of China (BSc)
Boston University (PhD)
AwardsISCB Fellow (2020)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Massachusetts
ThesisProtein-ligand binding: Effective free energy calculations (1997)
Doctoral advisorCharles DeLisi[2]
Websitewww.umassmed.edu/zlab/

Zhiping Weng is the Li Weibo Professor of biomedical research and chair of the program in integrative biology and bioinformatics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.[1][3][4][5] She was awarded Fellowship of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2020 for outstanding contributions to computational biology and bioinformatics.[6][7]

Education

Weng was educated at the University of Science and Technology of China[8] and Boston University where her PhD on the biochemistry of protein-ligand binding was supervised by Charles DeLisi and awarded in 1997.[9][2]

Career and research

Weng's research interests are in bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, epigenomics and transcriptional regulation.[1] She is known for her ZDOCK suite of protein-protein docking algorithms,[10] leadership of ENCODE,[11][12] PsychENCODE,[13] and work on small RNA biology and piwi-interacting RNA (piRNAs).[1][3][4]

Awards and honors

Weng is a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)[7] and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Zhiping Weng publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. 1 2 "Chemistry Tree - Zhiping Weng". academictree.org. Academic Tree.
  3. 1 2 Zhiping Weng publications from Europe PubMed Central
  4. 1 2 Zhiping Weng at DBLP Bibliography Server
  5. ↑ Zhiping Weng publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  6. ↑ Anon (2020). "ISCB Fellows". iscb.org. International Society for Computational Biology.
  7. 1 2 Anon (2020). "ISCB Congratulates and Introduces the 2020 Class of Fellows!". iscb.org.
  8. ↑ "Zhiping Weng | Profiles RNS". profiles.umassmed.edu.
  9. ↑ Weng, Zhiping (1997). Protein-ligand binding: Effective free energy calculations (PhD thesis). Boston University. OCLC 38760266. ProQuest 304338123ProQuest 304338123.
  10. ↑ Chen, Rong; Li, Li; Weng, Zhiping (2003). "ZDOCK: An initial-stage protein-docking algorithm". Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics. 52 (1): 80–87. doi:10.1002/prot.10389. ISSN 0887-3585. PMID 12784371. S2CID 14465607.
  11. ↑ The ENCODE Project Consortium (2007). "Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project". Nature. 447 (7146): 799–816. Bibcode:2007Natur.447..799B. doi:10.1038/nature05874. ISSN 0028-0836. PMC 2212820. PMID 17571346.
  12. ↑ The ENCODE Project Consortium (2012). "An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome". Nature. 489 (7414): 57–74. Bibcode:2012Natur.489...57T. doi:10.1038/nature11247. ISSN 0028-0836. PMC 3439153. PMID 22955616.
  13. ↑ Akbarian, Schahram; Liu, Chunyu; Knowles, James A; Vaccarino, Flora M; Farnham, Peggy J; Crawford, Gregory E; Jaffe, Andrew E; Pinto, Dalila; Dracheva, Stella; Geschwind, Daniel H; Mill, Jonathan; et al. (2015). "The PsychENCODE project". Nature Neuroscience. 18 (12): 1707–1712. doi:10.1038/nn.4156. ISSN 1097-6256. PMC 4675669. PMID 26605881.
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