QBI has successfully recruited a fantastic Bioinformatician for the sequencing facility: Zong-Hong Zhang.
Zong–Hong completed her Bachelor degree in Computer Science (software development) in Deakin University in Melbourne and a Bachelor degree in Medicine from China. She then went on to receive her master degree in science from the school of computing of National University of Singapore by Bioinformatics Research. Since then, she worked in bioinformatics research for about 7 years before joining QBI.
Her previous projects include protein sequence analysis for functional specialization, database establishment and maintenance, and web server development, microarray data analysis by data mining. She has more than 10 publications in bioinformatics research.
With her extensive experience in both bioinformatics research and IT-administration, Zong-Hong will be a key contributor towards answering neuroscience-specific research questions using NGS data.
