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JUE WANG
200 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
[email protected]
EDUCATION
2016 (anticipated) Ph.D. Systems Biology, Harvard University
2009
A.B. Chemical and Physical Biology, Harvard College
Magna cum laude. Minor in Computer Science.
RESEARCH
2010-present
Physiology and genetics of sugar preference in natural yeast isolates
Ph.D. thesis (anticipated). Advisor: Michael Springer.
Investigating how cells integrate multiple nutrient signals to control growth,
using natural variation in yeast sugar utilization as a model. Found a tradeoff
across diverse yeast strains between growth in a preferred sugar and
transition to growth on nonpreferred sugars. Ongoing work to determine the
genetic basis and molecular mechanism of this natural variation.
2008-2009
Culturability of soil bacterial isolates
Undergraduate thesis. Advisor: Roy Kishony.
Measured the fraction of soil bacterial isolates that are viable under laboratory
conditions, using time-lapse microscopy and viability staining. Found many
isolates that form microscopic colonies but stop growing before reaching
macroscopic size.
2004-2005
Sensitivity of metal oxide surfaces in detecting nitric oxide
High school research. Advisors: Brian Frederick & Francois Amar, University
of Maine.
Analyzed how the detection sensitivity of WO3 thin-films to NOx gases
depends on the size and density of gold nanoparticle catalysts on the surface,
using computational simulations. Determined parameters for optimal sensing.
PUBLICATIONS
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Wang J., Atolia E., Hua B., Savir Y., Escalante-Chong R., Springer M. (2015) Natural Variation in
Preparation for Nutrient Depletion Reveals a Cost-Benefit Tradeoff. PLoS Biology.
doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002041.
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Escalante-Chong R., Savir Y., Carroll S. M., Ingraham J. B., Wang J., Marx C. J., Springer M.
(2015) Galactose metabolic genes in yeast respond to a ratio of galactose and glucose. PNAS
112(5): 1636-1641.
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Marquardt S., Escalante-Chong R., Pho N., Wang J., Churchman L. S., Springer M., Buratowski S.
(2014) A chromatin-based mechanism for limiting divergent noncoding transcription. Cell
157: 1712–23.
AWARDS
2011
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2007
Herchel Smith Harvard Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
PRESENTATIONS
Mar. 2015
Departmental Seminar, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University,
Japan
Invited talk: “How do cells make decisions? The yeast glucose-galactose circuit
as a model for cellular responses to complex environments.”
Mar. 2015
13th International Student Seminar, Kyoto University, Japan
Invited talk: “The costs and benefits of microbial procrastination.”
Feb. 2015
q-Bio Winter, Hawaii
Talk: “The costs and benefits of microbial procrastination.”
2014
Systems Biology Departmental Seminar, Harvard Medical School
Talk: “The costs and benefits of microbial procrastination.”
2005
American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, San Diego
Talk: “Modeling the role of spillover and diffusion in nitric oxide detection by
gold nanoparticles on WO3 sensors”
TEACHING & MENTORING
2014 Summer
2013-2014
2013 Spring
2012
Mentored undergraduate researchers
Jacquelyn Zehner
Esha Atolia: 2nd author on our PLoS paper; now PhD student at Stanford CSB.
Kevin Parker
Neurobiology 306qc: Quantitative Methods for Biologists
Teaching assistant and curriculum writer for 2 sessions of a 1-week
“bootcamp” to teach basic programming and data analysis to biologists.
SCIENTIFIC SERVICE
2011-present
Software & Web Development, Springer Lab
Created and maintain MATLAB software for flow cytometry data analysis
(https://github.com/springerlab/Flow-Cytometry-Toolkit), the Springer lab
website (http://springerlab.org), and various strain/plasmid databases for
common lab use.
2013, 2014
Retreat Planning Committee, Harvard Systems Biology
Worked with 5 other students to plan our annual PhD program retreat. Invited
outside speakers and organized discussion panels on scientific and careerrelated topics.
WORK EXPERIENCE
2009-2010
Web developer & Social Media Manager, Science / AAAS
Web programming (PHP, Python, Movable Type), graphic design, Twitter,
Facebook, for Science’s online news portal.
2008-2009
Media Editor, Harvard International Review
Elected head of a staff of 5-10 designers to produce figures and page layouts
for a student-run quarterly magazine with circulation of 30,000.
REFERENCES
Michael Springer
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Systems
Biology, Harvard Medical School
200 Longwood Avenue
Warren Alpert Building
Boston, MA 02115
[email protected]
(617) 432-7391
Roy Kishony
Professor, Faculty of Biology and
Life Sciences & Engineering,
Technion, Israel; Visiting Professor,
Dept. of Systems Biology, Harvard
Medical School
Christopher J. Marx
Associate Professor, Dept. of
Biological Sciences &
Institute for Bioinformatics
and Evolutionary Studies,
University of Idaho
200 Longwood Avenue
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Boston, MA 02115
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