Tzu Lip Phang Ph.D.
I am an Associate Professor of Bioinformatics at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora Colorado. I hold primary appointment at the Department of Medicine, Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, and secondary appointment at Computational Bioscience Program and School of Public Health. I am the Director for the Translational Informatics and Computational Resources (TICR), the Research Computing unit for the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine (CCPM).
My CV
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Teaching Interest
I like to teach, and I believe that all biologists are data analysts who lack the analysis skills. My teaching goal is to bridge the cap between Bioinformatics and Biology through education. I am actively involved in the educational mission of the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. I am the co-founder of the BioMedical Data Science (BMDS) Certificate Program, and course director for multiple full semester courses, including a graduate-level “Big Data analyses using R and Bioconductor” and “Next Generation Phenotype”, as well as “Introduction to Bioinformatics” for undergraduates. I also served as the core lecturer for a 10 days hands-on ‘omics’ workshop through a completed T15 grant (NHLBI), the Colorado Summer Institute for Biostatistics (NHLBI), and an AACR-sponsored intensive program for early career stage clinical oncologist course.
Internationally, I also participated in a weeklong Bioinformatics workshop in University of Zimbabwe. Specifically, I was teaching them how to use R to perform Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) analysis.
Formerly, I am the director of Translational Informatics Education Services (TIES), a sub-division of CCTSI Research Informatics Integrated Core (RIIC). We develop innovative, and entertaining short video learning materials to teach various informatics topics. We called our system; 5X5, where you can learn 5 important aspects of a topic in 5 minutes. In addition, I am also a course director of many data analysis classes for the Bioinformatics graduate program.
Internationally, I also participated in a weeklong Bioinformatics workshop in University of Zimbabwe. Specifically, I was teaching them how to use R to perform Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) analysis.
Formerly, I am the director of Translational Informatics Education Services (TIES), a sub-division of CCTSI Research Informatics Integrated Core (RIIC). We develop innovative, and entertaining short video learning materials to teach various informatics topics. We called our system; 5X5, where you can learn 5 important aspects of a topic in 5 minutes. In addition, I am also a course director of many data analysis classes for the Bioinformatics graduate program.
AMC Bioinformatics Journal Club
I host the Bioinformatics Journal Club with my partner in crime; Dr. Aik Choon Tan every other Friday. We discuss bioinformatics topics ranging from integrative analysis, dug discovery, to Next Generation Sequencing.
My Reseach Interest
My Primary research interest include the development and discovery of best practices for Bioinformatics and Statistical pipeline for analyzing genomic and high-throughput data. Some of my analysis focuses includes:
- Microarray Time Course Analysis: I developed an intuitive analysis method called Trajectory Clustering
- Alternative Splicing transcript expression analysis
- Bioinformatics pipeline for shRNA synthetic lethality assay
- Long non-coding RNA expression analysis
- Discovery of best practice in Next Generation Sequencing data analysis
- Computational pipeline in the era of big data science