Activities
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Bioinformatics Research Scientist → Lead Bioinformatics Research Scientist
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Senior Bioinformatics Analyst → Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics Research in Pediatrics
Weill Cornell Medicine
Postdoctoral Scholar
University of Chicago
Postdoctoral Scholar
Mississippi State University
Visiting Scholar
Miami University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Single-cell Multi-Omics approaches, including demultiplexing, clustering, multimodal integration, and immune-repertoire profiling.
- Spatial omics approaches for studying tissue organization, cellular interactions, and disease-associated microenvironments.
- Cancer biology, with emphasis on understanding pediatric cancer origins and progression using single-cell, spatial, and multi-omics approaches.
- Evolutionary genetics, viral adaptation, and B-cell antibody responses, with applications to vaccination, antigen design, and respiratory viral infections.
EDUCATION
Xiamen University
Ph.D. System Engineering / Bioinformatics
Xi’an Jiaotong University
M.S. Control Engineering / Natural Language Processing
Xi’an Jiaotong University
B.S. Automation
CONTACT
Advanced Research Center - St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN, 38105
USA
Email: lei.li[at]stjude.org or leilioxford[at]gmail.com
PROJECTS
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RVEAtlas
A comprehensive platform that tracks amino acid variation and clade evolution across respiratory viruses.
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RSVrecon
An efficient workflow to screen clinically relevant genomic variations of RSV from NGS data.
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HTOreader
A hybrid single-cell demultiplexing strategy that increases both cell recovery rate and calling accuracy.
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VGenes
An integrated graphical tool for efficient, comprehensive, and multimodal analyses of massive B-cell repertoire sequences.
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Librator
A platform for optimized sequence editing, design, and expression of influenza virus proteins.
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LinQ-View
A joint single-cell analysis strategy that integrates transcriptome and surface-protein markers for cell heterogeneity identification.
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Cookie
Selecting representative samples from a single-cell atlas using k-medoids clustering.