Department of Infectious Diseases
Graduate Student, Joyner Lab
Biography

My name is Wayne Cheng, and I am a PhD student in the Comparative Biomedical Sciences program under the mentorship of Dr. Chester Joyner. My current research focus is to understand Plasmodium vivax liver-stage biology using comparative genomic approaches with third generation sequencing platforms.

Research Interests

  • Plasmodium liver-stage biology
  • Comparartive genomics
  • Epigenetics

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