Research Summary

My research is focused on functional genomics and epigenomics of lymphoma and leukemia, based on computational and statistical modeling and analysis of large-scale data derived from high-throughput microarray (gene expression, DNA methylation, ChIP-Chip, arrayCGH and SNP arrays) and next generation sequencing technologies (RNA-seq, Whole Exome-Seq, ChIP-seq and DNA methylation eRRBS-seq). Applying bioinformatics approaches, we are interested in identifying and evaluating 1) genetic and epigenetic abnormalities in the lymphomagenesis and leukemogenesis, 2) new biomarkers for prognosis and disease classification, and 3) novel therapeutic targets to develop precision medicine for different forms of lymphoma and leukemia. We have profiled 1000+ lymphoma and leukemia patient samples from LLMPP, COG, ECOG and other international consortiums and curated thousands of lymphoma and leukemia patient samples from public GEO, TCGA and TARGET datasets with different array and NGS platforms. Using these data, we have developed an integrative genomic and epigenomic metadata platform to study the master regulators and regulatory networks of hematopoietic malignancies. I have ongoing Intra- and Inter-Programmatic collaborations with numerous Cancer Center Members and Associate Members, including Markus Muschen, Neil Shah, James Rubenstein, Scott Kogan and Mignon Loh.

Education

University of Science & Technology of China, BS, 1999, School of the Gifted Young (Biophysics)
University of Nebraska at Omaha, MS, 2004, Computer Science
University of Nebraska Medical Center, PhD, 2008, Bioinformatics
Weill Cornell Medical College, Postdoc, 2008-2011, Computational Biology

Honors & Awards

  • 2004
    Best Poster Award, IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics Conference (CSB'04), Stanford Univerisity, CA
  • 2005
    Kerrigan Research Minigrants Award, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE
  • 2007
    Best Poster Award, 2007 Nebraska Research and Innovation Conference, Omaha, NE
  • 2007
    Bukey Fellowship, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
  • 2008
    Blanche Widaman Fellowship, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
  • 2008
    Harris Award in Cancer Research, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

Selected Publications

  1. Ruifeng Sun, Jaewoong Lee, Mark E. Robinson, Kohei Kume, Kadriye Nehir Cosgun, Lai N. Chan, Etienne Leveille, Huimin Geng, Vivasvan Vykunta, Brian Shy, Alexander Marson, Eric Meffre, Markus Müschen. CD25 recruits inhibitory phosphatases for feedback control of B-cell receptor signaling. The Journal of Immunology. 2023 May 1; 210(1_Supplement):154.23-154.23.  View on PubMed
  2. Lee J, Robinson ME, Sun R, Kume K, Ma N, Cosgun KN, Chan LN, Leveille E, Geng H, Vykunta VS, Shy BR, Marson A, Katz S, Chen J, Paietta E, Meffre E, Vaidehi N, Müschen M. Dynamic phosphatase-recruitment controls B-cell selection and oncogenic signaling. bioRxiv. 2023 Mar 15.  View on PubMed
  3. Feng X, Sun R, Lee M, Chen X, Guo S, Geng H, Müschen M, Choi J, Pereira JP. Cell circuits between leukemic cells and mesenchymal stem cells block lymphopoiesis by activating lymphotoxin beta receptor signaling. Elife. 2023 03 13; 12.  View on PubMed
  4. Mlynarczyk C, Teater M, Pae J, Chin CR, Wang L, Arulraj T, Barisic D, Papin A, Hoehn KB, Kots E, Ersching J, Bandyopadhyay A, Barin E, Poh HX, Evans CM, Chadburn A, Chen Z, Shen H, Isles HM, Pelzer B, Tsialta I, Doane AS, Geng H, Rehman MH, Melnick J, Morgan W, Nguyen DTT, Elemento O, Kharas MG, Jaffrey SR, Scott DW, Khelashvili G, Meyer-Hermann M, Victora GD, Melnick A. BTG1 mutation yields supercompetitive B cells primed for malignant transformation. Science. 2023 01 20; 379(6629):eabj7412.  View on PubMed
  5. Barry M, Wu F, Pati S, Chipman A, Geng H, Kozar R. Lyophilized plasma resuscitation downregulates inflammatory gene expression in a mouse model of sepsis. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2022 08 01; 93(2S Suppl 1):S119-S127.  View on PubMed
  6. Tarighat SS, Fei F, Joo EJ, Abdel-Azim H, Yang L, Geng H, Bum-Erdene K, Grice ID, von Itzstein M, Blanchard H, Heisterkamp N. Overcoming Microenvironment-Mediated Chemoprotection through Stromal Galectin-3 Inhibition in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Nov 10; 22(22).  View on PubMed
  7. Priya Choudhry, Olivia Gugliemini, Huimin Geng, Vishesh Sarin, Letitia Sarah, Yu-Hsiu T. Lin, Neha Paranjape, Poornima Ramkumar, Makeba Marcoulis, Donghui Wang, Paul Phojanakong, Veronica Steri, Byron Hann, Martin Kampmann, Arun P Wiita. Functional Multi-Omics Reveals Genetic and Pharmacologic Regulation of Surface CD38 in Multiple Myeloma. Blood. 2021 Nov 5; 138(Supplement 1):2648-2648.  View on PubMed
  8. Hua-Xin Gao, Eleanor Fraser, Mario Merlini, Huimin Geng, Lingjing Chen, Ming Lu, Yasmin Moshfegh, Joseph Cleveland, Jae Ryu, Jigyasa Sharma, David A. Solomon, Katerina Akassoglou, Clifford Lowell, James L. Rubenstein. Regulation of CNS Lymphoma Progression By the Myeloid Microenvironment. Blood. 2021 Nov 5; 138(Supplement 1):448-448.  View on PubMed
  9. Geng H, Tsang M, Subbaraj L, Cleveland J, Chen L, Lu M, Sharma J, Vigneron DB, Kurhanewicz J, LaFontaine M, Luks T, Barshop BA, Gangoiti J, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Rubenstein JL. Tumor metabolism and neurocognition in CNS lymphoma. Neuro Oncol. 2021 10 01; 23(10):1668-1679.  View on PubMed
  10. Chan TY, Egbert CM, Maxson JE, Siddiqui A, Larsen LJ, Kohler K, Balasooriya ER, Pennington KL, Tsang TM, Frey M, Soderblom EJ, Geng H, Müschen M, Forostyan TV, Free S, Mercenne G, Banks CJ, Valdoz J, Whatcott CJ, Foulks JM, Bearss DJ, O'Hare T, Huang DCS, Christensen KA, Moody J, Warner SL, Tyner JW, Andersen JL. TNK1 is a ubiquitin-binding and 14-3-3-regulated kinase that can be targeted to block tumor growth. Nat Commun. 2021 09 09; 12(1):5337.  View on PubMed
  11. Drew WL, Miller S, Geng H, Ingebrigtsen D, Suslow LM and Suslow PS. Absence of Influenza and RSV Activity in the San Francisco Bay Area during the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2021. J Adv Virol Res. 2021; 1(1):103.  View on PubMed
  12. Nix MA, Mandal K, Geng H, Paranjape N, Lin YT, Rivera JM, Marcoulis M, White KL, Whitman JD, Bapat SP, Parker KR, Ramirez J, Deucher A, Phojanokong P, Steri V, Fattahi F, Hann BC, Satpathy AT, Manglik A, Stieglitz E, Wiita AP. Surface Proteomics Reveals CD72 as a Target for In Vitro-Evolved Nanobody-Based CAR-T Cells in KMT2A/MLL1-Rearranged B-ALL. Cancer Discov. 2021 08; 11(8):2032-2049.  View on PubMed
  13. Pan L, Hong C, Chan LN, Xiao G, Malvi P, Robinson ME, Geng H, Reddy ST, Lee J, Khairnar V, Cosgun KN, Xu L, Kume K, Sadras T, Wang S, Wajapeyee N, Müschen M. PON2 subverts metabolic gatekeeper functions in B cells to promote leukemogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 02 16; 118(7).  View on PubMed
  14. Lee J, Robinson ME, Ma N, Artadji D, Ahmed MA, Xiao G, Sadras T, Deb G, Winchester J, Cosgun KN, Geng H, Chan LN, Kume K, Miettinen TP, Zhang Y, Nix MA, Klemm L, Chen CW, Chen J, Khairnar V, Wiita AP, Thomas-Tikhonenko A, Farzan M, Jung JU, Weinstock DM, Manalis SR, Diamond MS, Vaidehi N, Müschen M. IFITM3 functions as a PIP3 scaffold to amplify PI3K signalling in B cells. Nature. 2020 12; 588(7838):491-497.  View on PubMed
  15. Fan H, Lu J, Guo Y, Li D, Zhang ZM, Tsai YH, Pi WC, Ahn JH, Gong W, Xiang Y, Allison DF, Geng H, He S, Diao Y, Chen WY, Strahl BD, Cai L, Song J, Wang GG. BAHCC1 binds H3K27me3 via a conserved BAH module to mediate gene silencing and oncogenesis. Nat Genet. 2020 12; 52(12):1384-1396.  View on PubMed
  16. Fitch B, Roy R, Geng H, Montecino-Rodriguez E, Bengtsson H, Gaillard C, Hiam K, Casero D, Olshen AB, Dorshkind K, Kogan SC. Human pediatric B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemias can be classified as B-1 or B-2-like based on a minimal transcriptional signature. Exp Hematol. 2020 10; 90:65-71.e1.  View on PubMed
  17. Chan LN, Murakami MA, Robinson ME, Caeser R, Sadras T, Lee J, Cosgun KN, Kume K, Khairnar V, Xiao G, Ahmed MA, Aghania E, Deb G, Hurtz C, Shojaee S, Hong C, Pölönen P, Nix MA, Chen Z, Chen CW, Chen J, Vogt A, Heinäniemi M, Lohi O, Wiita AP, Izraeli S, Geng H, Weinstock DM, Müschen M. Signalling input from divergent pathways subverts B cell transformation. Nature. 2020 07; 583(7818):845-851.  View on PubMed
  18. Gang EJ, Kim HN, Hsieh YT, Ruan Y, Ogana HA, Lee S, Pham J, Geng H, Park E, Klemm L, Willman CL, Carroll WL, Mittelman SD, Orgel E, Oberley MJ, Parekh C, Abdel-Azim H, Bhojwani D, Wayne AS, De Arcangelis A, Georges-Labouesse E, Wayner E, Bonig H, Minasyan A, Ten Hoeve J, Graeber TG, Müschen M, Heisterkamp N, Kim YM. Integrin α6 mediates the drug resistance of acute lymphoblastic B-cell leukemia. Blood. 2020 07 09; 136(2):210-223.  View on PubMed
  19. Pi WC, Wang J, Shimada M, Lin JW, Geng H, Lee YL, Lu R, Li D, Wang GG, Roeder RG, Chen WY. E2A-PBX1 functions as a coactivator for RUNX1 in acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Blood. 2020 07 02; 136(1):11-23.  View on PubMed
  20. Godfrey L, Crump NT, O'Byrne S, Lau IJ, Rice S, Harman JR, Jackson T, Elliott N, Buck G, Connor C, Thorne R, Knapp DJHF, Heidenreich O, Vyas P, Menendez P, Inglott S, Ancliff P, Geng H, Roberts I, Roy A, Milne TA. H3K79me2/3 controls enhancer-promoter interactions and activation of the pan-cancer stem cell marker PROM1/CD133 in MLL-AF4 leukemia cells. Leukemia. 2021 01; 35(1):90-106.  View on PubMed

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