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Weigang Qiu, Ph.D., Professor Department of Biological Sciences Hunter College of City University of New York Belfer Research Building, Room 402 413 East 69th Street, New York, NY 10021 Office: 1-212-896-0445 Email: wqiu-at-(hunter.cuny.edu) Directions by Google Map |
Lab publications
Lyme Genomics
Li, Di, Zeglis, Qiu (2022). “Evolution of the vls antigenic variability locus of the Lyme Disease pathogen and development of recombinant monoclonal antibodies targeting conserved VlsE epitopes”. Microbial Spectrum 10 (5):1-15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.01743-22
Di*, Akther*, Bezrucenkovas, Ivanova, Sulkow, Wu, Mneimneh, Gomes-Solecki, Qiu (2021). "Maximum antigen diversification in a lyme bacterial population and evolutionary strategies to overcome pathogen diversity". The ISME Journal. 16, 447-464. [PMID 34413477] (*co-first authors)
Schwartz, Margos, Casjens, Qiu, Eggers (2020). "Multipartite Genome of Lyme Disease Borrelia: Structure, Variation and Prophages". Current Issues in Molecular Biology. 42:409-454. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21775/9781913652616
Barbour & Qiu (2019). Borreliella. In Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (eds W. B. Whitman, F. Rainey, P. Kämpfer, M. Trujillo, J. Chun, P. DeVos, B. Hedlund and S. Dedysh). John Wiley & Sons, Inc., in association with Bergey's Manual Trust. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01525
Evolution & Learning Algorithms
Ely, Koh, Ho, Hassan, Pham, Qiu (2023). Novelty Search Promotes Antigenic Diversity in Microbial Pathogens. Pathogens 12:388. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens12030388
Attie, Sulkow, Di, Qiu (2019). Genetic codes optimized as a traveling salesman problem. PLoS ONE 14(10): e0224552. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224552
Yan, Deforet, Boyle, Rahman, Liang, Okegbe, Dietrich, Qiu, Xavier (2017). Bow-tie signaling in c-di-GMP: Machine learning in a simple biochemical network. PLoS Comput Biol 13(8): e1005677. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005677
Informatics Tool Development
Hernandez, Bernstein, Pagan, Vargas, McCaig, Ramrattan, Akther, Larracuente, Di, Vieira, Qiu. (2018). BbWrapper: BioPerl-based sequence and tree utilities for rapid prototyping of bioinformatics pipelines. BMC Bioinformatics 19(1):76. [PMID 29499649]
Di, Pagan, Packer, Martin, Akther, Ramrattan, Mongodin, Fraser, Schutzer, Luft, Casjens and Qiu. (2014). BorreliaBase: a phylogeny-centered browser of Borrelia genomes. BMC Bioinformatics 15:233. [PMID 24994456]
last update: March 20, 2023
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Lab members and trainees
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Teaching & Training
- BIOL20300 Molecular Genetics, Lab 4
- BIOL20300 Molecular Genetics, Lab 7
- BIOL30300 Cell Biology, Bioinformatics Lab (transcriptome analysis)
- Big Data (2020)
- Southwest University R course (2019
- BIOL425 Computational Molecular Biology (2020)
- Analysis of Biological Data (2017)
- BIOL37500, Molecular Evolution (2019)
Lab Resources
- Github repositories: https://github.com/weigangq/?tab=repositories
- Mini-Protocols (frequently used computer codes and pipelines)
- Monte Carlo Club (summer projects)
- Tick handling protocols
- Hunter HPC Usage
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