Feb 01, 2008: My first paper got published on Genome Research which also featured the Feb 2008 issue!

Lixia Yao and Andrey Rzhetsky

Quantitative systems-level determinants of human genes targeted by successful drugs

Genome Res. 2008 18: 206-213

You can find more about the paper and the podcast from

http://www.genome.org/content/vol18/issue2/

You can also find more about the cover figure by Dr. Andrey Rzhetsky from

http://www.genome.org/content/vol18/issue2/cover.shtml

I would like very much to hear your comments, opinions, suggestions and anything else related to the paper.

Aug 28, 2007: I passed the oral II exam and become a real PhD candidate. 

Aug 13, 2007: I moved to Chicago to follow Dr. Andrey Rzhetsky for my PhD thesis. He is now a professor at the department of Medicine, the University of Chicago.

May 23, 2007: I am going to do a summer internship at GlacoSmithCline (GSK), Philadelphia. 

Lixia Yao

third year PhD student 

Research Advisor: Andrey Rzhetsky

Academic Advisor: Dennis Vitkup

Department of Biomedical Informatics

Columbia University

Email: lixia[.]yao[@]dbmi[.]columbia[.]edu