Ningxin Ouyang, Ph.D.
Master's student from October 2015 to January 2017
PhD student from January 2017 to January 2022
Bioinformatics Ph.D.
Current: Illimina, Inc.
Research areas
- Gene Regulation
- DNase Footprinting
Education
- B.S.: Purdue University
- M.S.: University of Michigan
Honors and Awards
- Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant (candidate)
Background
Ningxin’s current project focuses on developing an unsupervised footprinting method. She works to integrate both DNase I hypersensitivity and genome sequence information in a multivariate Hidden Markov Model to detect transcription factor binding sites.
Boyle lab papers
Ouyang N and Boyle AP.
2020.
TRACE: transcription factor footprinting using chromatin accessibility data and DNA sequence.
Genome Research.
30:
1040-1046.
DOI:
10.1101/gr.258228.119.
Diehl AD, Ouyang N, and Boyle AP.
2020.
Transposable elements contribute to cell and species-specific chromatin looping and gene regulation in mammalian genomes..
Nature Communications.
1:
1796.
DOI:
10.1038/s41467-020-15520-5.
