Yu (Brandon) Xia

I am an Assistant Professor in the Bioinformatics Program and the Department of Chemistry at Boston University, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.  I am affiliated with the Center for Advanced Genomic Technology, and the Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry Program.  In addition, I am affiliated with the Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Previously I was a Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. I received my Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University, and B.S. in Chemistry (major) and Computer Science (minor) from Peking University.

Positions

• BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA. 2006-present

Assistant Professor, Bioinformatics Program and Department of Chemistry

• BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA. 2008-present

Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Education

• YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT. 2003-2006

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Research in computational biology and bioinformatics

• STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA

Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2003

Thesis research in computational structural biology

• PEKING UNIVERSITY, Beijing, China

B.S. in Chemistry with Minor in Computer Science, 1995

Undergraduate thesis research in chemical physics