Qin Zhao

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Qualifications

* Solid industry and academic experience in health and life sciences

* Broad experience in technical support to customers on commercial life

science products

* Strong knowledge of next generation sequence product to resolve customer

questions and concerns

* Hands-on experience with biochemical, cellular and molecular biology

laboratory techniques

* Excellent skills in writing, documentation, presentation and speaking

* Demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced manner

* Strong strategic planning and organization skills, and interpersonal

skills to work with collaborative groups

work Experience and projects

Bioinformatics Scientist (November 2008 - present)

454 Life Sciences, a Roche company, Branford, CT

-Technical support to customers on products, applications and document the

project report

-Project leadership and management from project creation to the project

completion to ensure the client project completed and delivered on time

-Liaison between the customer and various departments at Roche 454

including Technical Support Services, Marketing, Production and R&D to

refine existing products and pursue suggestions for new products and

procedures.

-Validation of bioinformatics algorithms for next-generation sequencing

data analysis, software testing, bug report

-Evaluation of the third party bioinformatics tools for next-generation

sequencing data analysis

-Qualify control of the production, bioinformatics data analysis and

interpretation of large data sets to provide biological insight for various

production projects

Research Associate (October 2006 - October 2008)

School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Research Assistant (July 2001 -- August 2006)

Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX

Teaching Assistant (August 2000 -- June 2001)

Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX

Education

. Ph.D. of Computational Biology, University of Houston, 08/06

. Master of Computer Science, University of Houston, 05/06

. Bachelor of Biochemistry, Wuhan University, China, 06/00

Selected Publication

Putonti, C., Zhao, Q., Willson, R.C., Fox, G.E., Fofanov, Y. The Host-Blind

Database: A Portal to Ultraspecific Signatures for Assay Design. 11th

Structural Biology Symposium (Galveston, TX), 2006: 127.

Zhao, Q., Nagaswamy, U., Lee, H., Xia, Y., Gao, X., and Fox, G. E. NMR

Structure and Mg2+ Binding of an RNA Segment that Underlies the L7/L12

Stalk in the E. coli 50S Ribosomal Subunit. Nucleic Acids Res. 2005 Jun

6;33(10):3145-53.

Zhao, Q., Nagaswamy, U., Xia, Y., Gao, X., and Fox, G. E. NMR Structure and

Backbone Dynamics of Consecutive G.A Mismatches in a Conserved 23S rRNA

Sequence Fragment. 2004 Keck Center/HAMBP Annual Research Conference,

October 8, 2004.

Zhao, Q., Gao, X., and Fox, G. E. NMR Study of the Novel Member of the GNRA

Family. UH Sigma Xi, April 2004.

Zhao, Q., Nagaswamy, U., Lee, H., Gao, X., and Fox, G. E. NMR Study of a

23S Ribosomal RNA Fragment Containing Two A.G mismatches. First Houston

High Field NMR Symposium Structure Solution to Biological Systems May 17,

2003.

Nagaswamy, U., Larios-Sanz, M., Hury, J., Collins, S., Zhang, Z., Zhao, Q.,

and Fox, G. E. NCIR: A Database of Non-canonical Interactions in Known RNA

Structures. Nucleic Acids Res., 2002 Jan 1;30(1):395-397.

Activity

Invited reviewer of the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent

Computing

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