Kai Tan
Assistant
Professor
Internal Medicine
Assistant Professor
Biomedical
Engineering
Professor
Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences
2294 Carver Biomedical Research Building
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
Telephone: (319) 384-4676
Joined the College of Engineering: 2008
Education: Ph.D., Biochemistry, Washington University,
2004.
B.A., Biochemistry, Beloit College, 1997
Special Fields of Knowledge: Systems biology, bioinformatics, comparative genomics, gene regulation.
Present Research Interests: understanding gene regulatory networks and molecular pathways that give rise to stem cell phenotype and human diseases.
Selected Publications:
- Firpi HA, Ucar D, and Tan K. Discover regulatory DNA elements using chromatin signature and artificial neural network. 2010. Bioinformatics. 26 (13):1579-86.
- Tan K, Tegner J, and Ravasi T. Integrated approaches to uncover transcriptional regulatory networks in mammalian cells. Genomics. 91(3): 219-231, 2008.
- Tan K, Feizi H, Luo C, Fan S, Ravasi T, and Ideker T. A systems approach to delineate functions of paralogous transcription factors: Role of the Yap family in the DNA damage response. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 105(8):2934-2939, 2008.
- Tan K, Shlomi T, Feizi H, Ideker T, and Sharan R. Transcriptional regulation of protein complexes within and across species. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 104(4): 1283-1288, 2007.
- Tan K, Ideker T. Protein interaction networks in Biological networks. World Scientific, New Jersey. 2007.
Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships: International Society for Computational Biology; International Society for Systems Biology; Sigma Xi, International Society for Stem Cell Research.