CONTACT INFORMATIONBIOGRAPHYCREDENTIALSPUBLICATIONSBin Zhang, Ph.D.Contact InformationPhone NumbersOffice: (585) 276-8707LocationsUniversity of Rochester Medical CenterSchool of Medicine and Dentistry601 Elmwood Ave, Box 608Rochester, NY 14642Faculty AppointmentsAssistant Professor - Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (SMD) BiographyProfessional BackgroundDr. Bin Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and the Department of Pediatrics at University of Rochester. He serves as a clinical genomicist in the cytogenetics laboratory at Strong Memorial Hospital. He earned his PhD in Molecular Genetics and Genomics and obtained his Clinical Genomics fellowship at Washington University in Saint Louis. He is board certified in Clinical Cytogenetics and board eligible in Clinical Molecular Genetics by the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics. Prior to his doctoral studies, he earned his BS in Biology from Sichuan University in China and MS in Biology from Truman State University. He also completed his post-doctoral training at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Dr. Zhang' clinical responsibilities include the genetic diagnostic evaluation of blood, bone marrow, lymph nodes, amniotic fluid, chorionic villus, product of conception, and tissues for other malignancies. This includes interpretation of molecular genetics and cytogenetics data from sequencing, karyotyping, FISH and microarray analysis.ResearchHis graduate study focused on human genetics and mouse modeling of cohesinopathies, and his postdoctoral work on studying function, regulation, and evolution of long (MALAT1 and NEAT1) and small (piRNAs) non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). He maintains active research interests in chromosome biology and centromere biology. In particular, his research program at University of Rochester focuses on studying the formation, plasticity, and epigenetic inheritance of neocentromere, and its potential clinical applications in gene therapy and synthetic biology. Email address: bin_zhang@urmc.rochester.edu.CredentialsEducation2007PhD | Washington University in Saint LouisPost-doctoral Training & Residency10/01/2012 - 09/30/2015Clinical Genomics Fellowship at Washington University in Saint Louis03/01/2009 - 09/30/2012Postdoctoral Fellowship at Cold Spring Harbor LaboratoryPublicationsJournal Articles9/3/2020Craig CP, Calamaro E, Fong CT, Iqbal AM, Paciorkowski AR, Zhang B. "Diagnosis of FOXG1 syndrome caused by recurrent balanced chromosomal rearrangements: case study and literature review." Molecular cytogenetics. 2020 Sep 3; 13(1):40. Epub 2020 Sep 03. 2/2020Bodrog A, Zhang B, Liu L, Casulo C, Bennett JM. "A case of Burkitt Leukemia: Revisiting the prognostic value of lactate dehydrogenase." Leukemia research.. 2020 Feb 0; 89:106295. Epub 2019 Dec 28. 2018Reyes-Barron C, Evans AG, Miyamoto H, Zhang B, Iqbal MA. "Novel 1.3 Mb germline duplication in chromosome 8q21.11 by microarray comparative genomic hybridization plus single nucleotide polymorphism analysis in an adult patient with pancytopenia and urinary bladder complications". Clinical Case Reports. 2018; 0(0): 1-6.Books & Chapters2014 Chapter Title: Single Nucleotide Variant Detection Using Next Generation Sequencing Book Title: Clinical Genomics Author List: David H. Spencer, Bin Zhang and John Pfeifer Edited By: Shashikant Kulkarni and John Pfeifer Published By: Elsevier 2014VIEW ALL PUBLICATIONS