Junwen Wang, PhD

1412 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021, USA

Phone: 215.746.5145(o)

           610.623.1758(h)

Fax:     215.573-3111(o)

Email:  junwen@pcbi.upenn.edu

 Education/Training


2004-            Post-doc in Bioinformatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

2001-2003    Post-doc in Bioinformatics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

1997-2000    PhD in Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1993-1995    MS in Food Science, Wuxi University of Light Industry, Wuxi, China

1989-1993    BE in Food Engineering, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China


Experiences


2000-2001    Software Engineer, RawHide Internet Services Inc. Toledo, OH, USA.

1995-1997    Researcher and Project Leader, PepsiCo International Ltd. Co. Shanghai, China

 

Certificates


Sun Certified Java Developer (SCJD2) from Sun Microsystems, July 2001.

Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP2) from Sun Microsystems, Nov., 2000.

Global Trade, Transportation and Logistic Certificate (20 credits) from UW, Aug., 2000.

 

Extra-Curricular Activities


2002 -              Member of SAPA (Sino-American Pharmaceutical Professionals Association)
2002 -              Member of ISCB (International Society for Computational Biology)
1998 - 2002     Member of IFT (Institute of Food Technologists)
1998 - 1999     President of CSSA at UW (Chinese Students and Scholars Association)
 

Honors


1997-2000         Claire and Evelyn Egtvedt Fellowship from University of Washington.

1999                   Puget Sound Institute of Food Technologists Scholastic Award.

 

Recent Publications


1. W. Li, J.W. Wang and J-A. Feng: NdPASA: a Pair-wise Sequence Alignment Server for Distantly Related Proteins. Bioinformatics, 2005 21:3803-5.

2. J.W. Wang and S. Hannenhalli: Generalizations of Markov model to characterize biological sequences.  BMC Bioinformatics, 2005 6:219.

3. J.W. Wang and J-A. Feng: NdPASA: A novel pair-wise protein sequence alignment algorithm that incorporates neighbor-dependent amino acid propensities. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 2005 58:628-637

4. B. Rupp and J.W. Wang: Predictive models for protein crystallization. Methods: A Companion to Methods in Enzymology, 2004 34:390-407.

5. J.W. Wang and J-A. Feng: Exploring the sequence patterns of α-helices in proteins. Protein Engineering, 2003 16(11):799-807.