- 12/2022: Fang’s co-first author Nature paper is online now (https://lnkd.in/gqeyjY3g). The study includes nearly 3.4 million people of European, African, American and Asian ancestry. It shows almost 4000 genetic variants were linked to how much alcohol a person drinks a week, the age some start smoking and whether they quit the habit. A majority of the 2300 genes the study identified have unknown functions, which will be a valuable resource for future research.
- 08/2020: Fang was selected as a semifinalist for the 2020 Charles J. Epstein Trainee Awards for Excellence in Human Genetics Research.
- 05/2020: Fang completed the Udacity C++ Nanodegree Program
- 04 /2020: Fang completed the Udacity Data Structures & Algorithms Nanodegree Program
- 11/2019: Very happy to receive a Udacity Technology Scholarship powered by Bertelsmann
- 11/2019: Accomplished the two-week challenge to get the Deep Learning Specialization at Coursera.
- 10/2019: Excited to give a platform talk at ASHG 2019.
Topic: The functional landscape and essential genes discovery in genetic etiology of tobacco use.
Hall B – Level 1/Convention/ Wed, Oct 16
- 01/2019: Our paper on the GWAS for smoking/drinking addiction is out at Nature Genetics.
It represents a major focus for the lab. We identified >400 loci associated with smoking/drinking addictions, which provided a comprehensive catalog of potential causal genes for follow-up studies.