Kai Tan, PhD
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About Kai Tan, PhD
Titles
Professor
Professor of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Awards and Honors
2011-2013, March of Dimes Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award
2009-2011, NSF Computing Innovation Fellows Award
2009-2010, PhRMA Foundation Junior Faculty Research Starter Award
2004-2006, IBM postdoctoral fellowship
Leadership and Memberships
International
2000-present, International Society for Computational Biology
2003-present, Sigma Xi
2005-present, International Society for Systems Biology
2008-present, International Society for Stem Cell Research
2014, Program committee member, International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, Pittsburgh, USA
2015, Program committee member, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Dublin, Ireland
2016, Program committee member, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Orlando, USA
National
2014, Program committee member, International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, Pittsburgh, USA
2015, Program committee member, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Dublin, Ireland
2016, Program committee member, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Orlando, USA
Editorial and Academic Positions
Editorial Positions
Associate Editor
2014-present, Associate Editor, PLos Computational Biology
2013-present, Associate Editor, BMC Genomics
Ad hoc Reviewer
Genome Research
Genome Biology
Nature Biotechnology
Developmental Cell
Cell Systems
Nucleic Acids Research
Bioinformatics
Journal of Clinical Investigation
BMC Bioinformatics
BMC Genomics
BMC Systems Biology
Genomics
Molecular Systems Biology
Nature Genetics
Nature Methods
PLos Computational Biology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
Science
Academic and Institutional Committees
2016-present, Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
2016-present, Institute of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
2016-present, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
2016-present, Penn Institute for Immunology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
2016-present, Genomics & Computational Biology (GCB) Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania Perelman Medical School
2016-present, Cell & Molecular Biology (CAMB) Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
2016-present, Seminar Committee, Department of Biomedical & Health Informatics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
2016-present, Quantitative analysis and Cancer subcommittees, Understand the causes and Develop Therapies for rare & complex diseases work group, CHOP RI thematic work group
2016-present, Biostatistics Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
July 2016, Program committee member, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Orlando, USA
October 2016, Program committee member, MidAtlantic Bioinformatics Conference, Philadelphia, USA
2015, ZRG1BST-U(50) (4DNucleome U54 panel, NIH), Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
July 2015, Program committee member, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Dublin, Ireland
2014-2019, Career Development Panel, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, USA
April 2014, Program committee member, International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, Pittsburg, USA
2013, ZAI-PA-I-J1/ZAI1-ALW-I-J1 panel (Autoimmunity centers of excellence), National Institutes of Health, USA
July 2013, Program committee member, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany
2013, Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium review panel, National Institutes of Health, USA
2013, Biodata Management and Analysis (BDMA) study section, National Institutes of Health, USA
April 2013, Program committee member, International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, Beijing, China
2012-2021, Genomics, Computational Biology, and Technology (GCAT) study section, National Institutes of Health, USA
April 2012, Program committee member, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Anaheim, USA
2012, Leukemia & Lymphoma Research, UK, external reviewer
2012, Austrian Science Foundation, Austria, external reviewer
2010, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, UK , external reviewer
December 2010, Program committee member, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine, Hong Kong, China
November 2009, Program committee member, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine, Washington DC, USA
June 2009, Program committee member, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Stockholm, Sweden
June 2009, Program committee member, European Conference on Computational Biology, Stockholm, Sweden
November 2008, Program committee member, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine, Philadelphia, USA
Research Interests
Cancer Genetics Research and Cancer Pathobiology Research.
Education & training
Undergraduate Degree
BS in Biochemistry - Beloit College, Beloit, WI
Graduate Degree
PHD in Computational Biology - Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Fellowship
Postdoctoral Fellowship - University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
Publications
Publications
2018
Uzun Y, Gao P, He B, Ma X, Wang J, Han S, Tan K. Identifying noncoding risk variants using disease-relevant gene regulatory networks. Nat Commun. 2018 Feb 16;9(1):702. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-03133-y.
2016
Holmfeldt P, Ganuza M, Marathe H, He B, Hall T, Kang G, Moen J, Parieck J, Saulsberry A, Cico A, Gaut L, McGoldrick D, Finkelstein D, Tan K and McKinney-Freeman S. Functional screen identifies regulators of murine hematopoietic stem cell repopulation. J Exp Med. 2016 Feb 15. pii: jem.20150806. [Epub ahead of print].
Huang J, Wang K, Wei P, Liu X, Liu X, Tan K, Boerwinkle E, Potash JB, Han S. FLAGS: A Flexible and Adaptive Association Test for Gene Sets Using Summary Statistics. Genetics 202: 919-29, Mar 2016.
He, B and Tan K. Understanding transcriptional regulatory networks using computational models. Current Opinion in Genes & Development 37: 101-108, Mar 2016.
2015
Cao Z, Chen C, He B, Tan K* and Lu C*. : A microfluidic device for profiling genome-wide histone modifications using 100 cells. Nature Methods 12: 959-962, 2015.
Teng Li, He Bing, Wang Jiahui, Tan Kai: 4DGenome: a comprehensive database of chromatin interactions. Bioinformatics 31(15): 2560-4, Aug 2015.
Cai Xiongwei, Gao Long, Teng Li, Ge Jingping, Oo Zaw Min, Kumar Ashish R, Gilliland D Gary, Mason Philip J, Tan Kai, Speck Nancy A: Runx1 Deficiency Decreases Ribosome Biogenesis and Confers Stress Resistance to Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells. Cell stem cell 17(2): 165-77, Aug 2015.
Ma Xiaoke, Gao Long, Karamanlidis Georgios, Gao Peng, Lee Chi Fung, Garcia-Menendez Lorena, Tian Rong, Tan Kai: Revealing Pathway Dynamics in Heart Diseases by Analyzing Multiple Differential Networks. PLoS computational biology 11(6): e1004332, Jun 2015.
2014
Li Y, Esain V, Teng L, Xu J, Kwan W, Frost I, Yzaguirre A, Maijenburg MW, Tober J, Dzierzak E, Orkin SH, Tan K, North TE, and Speck NA. Inflammatory signaling regulates embryonic hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell production. Genes & Development 28(23): 2597-612, Dec 2014.
Dogan Meeshanthini V, Shields Bridget, Cutrona Carolyn, Gao Long, Gibbons Frederick X, Simons Ronald, Monick Martha, Brody Gene H, Tan Kai, Beach Steven R H, Philibert Robert A: The effect of smoking on DNA methylation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from African American women. BMC genomics 15: 151, 2014.
Ma Xiaoke, Gao Long, Tan Kai: Modeling disease progression using dynamics of pathway connectivity. Bioinformatics 30(16): 2343-50, Aug 2014.
Steinke Farrah C, Yu Shuyang, Zhou Xinyuan, He Bing, Yang Wenjing, Zhou Bo, Kawamoto Hiroshi, Zhu Jun, Tan Kai, Xue Hai-Hui: TCF-1 and LEF-1 act upstream of Th-POK to promote the CD4(+) T cell fate and interact with Runx3 to silence Cd4 in CD8(+) T cells. Nature immunology 15(7): 646-56, Jul 2014.
He Bing, Chen Changya, Teng Li, Tan Kai: Global view of enhancer-promoter interactome in human cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111(21): E2191-9, May 2014.
Teng Li, He Bing, Gao Peng, Gao Long, Tan Kai: Discover context-specific combinatorial transcription factor interactions by integrating diverse ChIP-Seq data sets. Nucleic acids research 42(4): e24, Feb 2014.
Books
Chapters
2007
Cao Z, Chen C, He B, Tan K, and Lu C.: Ultrasensitive microfluidic ChIP-Seq with small number of cells. American Institute of Chemical Engineers annual meeting, Atlanta, 2014.
2005
Ideker T, Tan K, and Uetz P.: Visualization and integration of protein interaction networks. Protein-Protein Interactions: A molecular cloning manual 2005.