Xiaole Shirley Liu, Harvard University

X. Shirley Liu graduated summa cum laude from Smith College double majoring in Biochemistry and Computer Science. She received PhD in Biomedical Informatics and PhD minor in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2002, and became assistant professor in Biostatistics and Computational Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health. Her research focuses on computational models of transcription regulation, especially transcription factor motif finding and genome tiling microarray analysis for ChIP-chip. She has developed a number of widely used motif finding and ChIP-chip analysis algorithms, and has collaborated widely with pioneers in ChIP-chip technology and transcription regulation such as Pat Brown, Jason Lieb, Rich Losick, Myles Brown, Pam Silver, and Kevin Struhl. She received the Claudia Adams Barr Award for Innovative Basic Cancer Research in 2005, and the Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program New Investigator Award in 2006.

Tentative Title: Computational analysis of ChIP-chip on genome tiling arrays to study human cistromes