Academic Education

• Ph.D., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
• B.S., Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Professional Appointments

• Senior Research Associate, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
  Global transcriptional/pathway analysis of Caulobacter crescentus under metal stress by microarray.
• Computational Biologist, Metabolex, Inc.
  Responsible for developing database/scripts to provide an integrated environment to access proprietary/public gene annotation and pathway analysis. Bioinformatics support for diabetes R&D.
• Bioinformatics Scientist II, diaDexus, Inc.
  LIMS design and development. Bioinformatics research and support for diagnostic R&D of cancer and cardio vascular disease.
• Biomedical Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
  Sequencing and annotation of the Yersinia pestis plasmids. Developing PCR signature for Y. pestis identification.
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California at Berkeley
  cellular response to nitrogen starvation and possible metabolite flux control mechanism in Bacillus subtilis
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Structural analysis of glutamine-PRPP amidotransferase and mechanism of degradation of aspartate transcarbamylase in Bacillus subtilus.

Other Interests

• Travel
• Read/research news and analysis

Ping Hu
Senior Research Associate

Ecology Department

Phone: 510-486-5204
Email: phu@lbl.gov