Chengcang Charles Wu
Chengcang Charles Wu is a Chinese-born American scientist with expertise in the fields of genetics, bioinformatics, and genomics, particularly large fragment DNA cloning and BAC (Bacterial Artificial Chromosome) library technologies.[1][2][3][4]
Accomplishments
[edit]Wu is the main contributor of the first soybean physical map.[5] He is also one of the inventors of plant artificial chromosomes,[4] Fungal Artificial Chromosomes and related technologies.[1]
Biotechnology involvement
[edit]Wu was the founding vice president of Lucigen Corporation. In 2013, Wu Founded Intact Genomics, Inc. in St. Louis Missouri.
Education
[edit]Anhui Agricultural University, China, B.S., Biology. M.S., Genetics
Iwate University, Japan, Ph.D, Bioenvironmental Science
References
[edit]- ^ a b Clevenger, Kenneth D; Bok, Jin Woo; Ye, Rosa; Miley, Galen P; Verdan, Maria H; Velk, Thomas; Chen, Cynthia; Yang, KaHoua; Robey, Matthew T (2017-06-12). "A scalable platform to identify fungal secondary metabolites and their gene clusters". Nature Chemical Biology. 13 (8): 895–901. doi:10.1038/nchembio.2408. PMC 5577364. PMID 28604695.
- ^ Alexeyenko, Andrey; Nystedt, Björn; Vezzi, Francesco; Sherwood, Ellen; Ye, Rosa; Knudsen, Bjarne; Simonsen, Martin; Turner, Benjamin; de Jong, Pieter (2014-06-06). "Efficient de novo assembly of large and complex genomes by massively parallel sequencing of Fosmid pools". BMC Genomics. 15 (1): 439. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-15-439. PMC 4070561. PMID 24906298.
- ^ Zhang, Hong-Bin; Scheuring, Chantel F.; Zhang, Meiping; Zhang, Yang; Wu, Cheng-Cang; Dong, Jennifer J.; Li, Yaning (2012-02-16). "Construction of BIBAC and BAC libraries from a variety of organisms for advanced genomics research". Nature Protocols. 7 (3): 479–499. doi:10.1038/nprot.2011.456. PMID 22343430. S2CID 205465264.
- ^ a b Ananiev, Evgueni V.; Wu, Chengcang; Chamberlin, Mark A.; Svitashev, Sergei; Schwartz, Chris; Gordon-Kamm, William; Tingey, Scott (April 2009). "Artificial chromosome formation in maize (Zea mays L.)". Chromosoma. 118 (2): 157–177. doi:10.1007/s00412-008-0191-3. PMID 19015867.
- ^ Wu, Chengcang; Sun, Shuku; Nimmakayala, Padmavathi; Santos, Felipe A.; Meksem, Khalid; Springman, Rachael; Ding, Kejiao; Lightfoot, David A.; Zhang, Hong-Bin (February 2004). "A BAC- and BIBAC-Based Physical Map of the Soybean Genome". Genome Research. 14 (2): 319–326. doi:10.1101/gr.1405004. PMC 327108. PMID 14718376.