*(COPH BDS Dept Faculty Profile)
Chengqi "Charley" Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Global, Environmental, and Genomic Health Sciences
Director, USF Genomics Program Sequencing Core
Contact Info
- Office: IDRB 404
- Academic Email: chengqi@usf.edu
- View My C.V. | View My Website
Education
- PhD, Cheminformatics/Bioinformatics, Lanzhou University, 2012
- BS, Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, 2006
Discipline
Genomics
Specialization
- Epigenetics
- Multi-omics
- Bioinformatics
- Systems biology of infectious diseases
Biography
My research focuses on the intersection of functional genomics, cell biology, and molecular parasitology. I employ integrative approaches such as epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, high-throughput genome editing, single-cell genomics, microbial genomics, and long-read sequencing to understand how biological systems, which underpin health and disease, respond to genetic variations and environmental factors (such as drugs). I also utilize statistical inference methods (including MCMC and Bayesian modeling), optimization algorithms, and machine learning to uncover patterns in large datasets (such as multi-omics data), decipher underlying mechanisms, and leverage predictive and causal relationships to address key questions in genomics and molecular medicine.