Researcher (Associate Professor), Waseda University
〒162-0041 東京都新宿区早稲田鶴巻町513 番地 早稲田大学121号館501室
✎ chao.zeng{AT}aoni.waseda.jp / zengxchao{AT}gmail.com
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2025/04/01: I’m pleased to announce my promotion to Researcher (Associate Professor).
2025/03/10: Co-authored paper on MIR205HG in IPF is now available online in JCI Insight.
2025/04/01~present: Waseda University, Researcher (Associate Professor)
2021/04/01~2025/03/31: Waseda University, Junior Researcher (Assistant Professor)
2018/11/01~2021/03/31: CBBD-OIL (AIST), Postdoctoral Researcher
2018/05/01~2018/10/31: Waseda University, Research Associate
2016/12/01~2018/04/30: CBBD-OIL (AIST), Technical Staff
2016/04/01~2016/11/31: The University of Tokyo, Project Researcher
PhD in Science, The University of Tokyo, 2013~2016
MSc in Informatics, Kyoto University, 2010~2013
BSc in Information Processing, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, 2006~2010
2023/04~2026/03: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research A (Co-Investigator) / 基盤研究A・分担 (23H00509)
2022/04~2025/03: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (PI) / 若手研究・代表 (22K15093)
2021/07~2023/03: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research (Co-Investigator) / 挑戦的萌芽研究・分担 (21K19402)
2020/04~2022/03: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (PI) / 若手研究・代表 (20K15784)
Yuxi Yang, Mai Kubota, Kokone Hasegawa, Chao Zeng, Kazuko Nishikura, Michiaki Hamada, Masayuki Sakurai, Mitotic phosphorylation of ADAR1 regulates its centromeric localization and is required for faithful mitotic progression, bioRxiv, 2025 (preprint)
Tsuyoshi Takashima, Chao Zeng, Eitaro Murakami, Naoko Fujiwara, Masaharu Kohara, Hideki Nagata, Zhaozu Feng, Ayako Sugai, Yasue Harada, Rika Ichijo, Daisuke Okuzaki, Satoshi Nojima, Takahiro Matsui, Yasushi Shintani, Gota Kawai, Michiaki Hamada, Tetsuro Hirose, Kazuhiko Nakatani, Eiichi Morii*, Involvement of lncRNA MIR205HG in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and IL-33 regulation via Alu elements, JCI Insight, 10(5):e187172, 2025. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.187172
Kenzui Taniue*, Anzu Sugawara, Chao Zeng, Han Han, Xinyue Gao, Yuki Shimoura, Atsuko Ozeki, Rena Mizutani, Masahide Seki, Yutaka Suzuki, Michiaki Hamada, Nobuyoshi Akimitsu*, The MTR4/hnRNPK complex surveils aberrant polyadenylated RNAs with multiple exons, Nature Communications, 15:8684, 2024. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-51981-8 (press release)
Segewkal Heruye, Jered Myslinski, Chao Zeng, Amy Zollman, Shinichi Makino, Azuma Nanamatsu, Quoseena Mir, Sarath Chandra Janga, Emma H Doud, Michael T Eadon, Bernhard Maier, Michiaki Hamada, Tuan M Tran, Pierre Dagher, Takashi Hato*, Inflammation primes the murine kidney for recovery by activating AZIN1 A-to-I editing, The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 134(17):e180117, 2024. doi: 10.1172/JCI180117
Yutaro Wakabayashi, Aika Shimono, Yuki Terauchi, Chao Zeng, Michiaki Hamada, Kentaro Semba, Shinya Watanabe, Kosuke Ishikawa*, Identification of a Novel Noncoding RNA Transcript TISPL Upregulated by Stressors that Stimulate ATF4, Gene, 917:148464, 2024. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2024.148464
Chao Zeng, Takeshi Chujo, Tetsuro Hirose*, Michiaki Hamada*, Landscape of semi-extractable RNAs across five human cell lines, Nucleic Acids Research, 51(15):7820-7831, 2023. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad567 ( JP | EN press release)
Chao Zeng*, Atsushi Takeda, Kotaro Sekine, Naoki Osato, Tsukasa Fukunaga, Michiaki Hamada*, Bioinformatics Approaches for Determining the Functional Impact of Repetitive Elements on Non-coding RNAs, Methods in Molecular Biology, 2509:315-340, 2022. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2380-0_19
Yu Hamaguchi*, Chao Zeng, Michiaki Hamada*, Impact of human gene annotations on RNA-seq differential expression analysis, BMC Genomics, 22:730, 2021. doi: 10.1186/s12864-021-08038-7
Masahiro Onoguchi, Chao Zeng, Ayako Matsumaru, Michiaki Hamada*, Binding patterns of RNA binding proteins to repeat-derived RNA sequences reveal putative functional RNA elements, NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, 3(3):lqab055, 2021. doi: 10.1093/nargab/lqab055
Satoshi Takahashi, Rintaro Noro, Masahiro Seike*, Chao Zeng, Masaru Matsumoto, Akiko Yoshikawa, Shinji Nakamichi, Teppei Sugano, Mariko Hirao, Kuniko Matsuda, Michiaki Hamada, Akihiko Gemma, Long Non-Coding RNA CRNDE is Involved in Resistance to EGFR Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor in EGFR-Mutant Lung Cancer via eIF4A3/MUC1/EGFR Signaling, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22(8):4005, 2021. doi: 10.3390/ijms22084005
Chao Zeng*, Masahiro Onoguchi, Michiaki Hamada*, Association analysis of repetitive elements and R-loop formation across species, Mobile DNA, 12(3), 2021. doi: 10.1186/s13100-021-00231-5 (preLights)
Chao Zeng, Michiaki Hamada*, Detection and characterization of ribosome-associated lncRNA, Methods in Molecular Biology, 2254:179-194, 2021. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1158-6_11
Chao Zeng*, Michiaki Hamada*, RNA-seq analysis reveals localization-associated alternative splicing across 13 cell lines, Genes, 11(7):820, 2020. doi: 10.3390/genes11070820
Chao Zeng*, Michiaki Hamada*, Identifying sequence features that drive ribosomal association for lncRNA, BMC Genomics, 19(Suppl 10):906, 2018. doi: 10.1186/s12864-018-5275-8
Chao Zeng*, Tsukasa Fukunaga and Michiaki Hamada*, Identification and analysis of ribosome-associated lncRNAs using ribosome profiling data, BMC Genomics, 19:414, 2018. doi: 10.1186/s12864-018-4765-z
Hu, Xiao-tong*, Chao Zeng*, Obstacle Avoidance and Path Planning Based on S-Type Double-Arc Insertion Method, 6th International Conference on Wireless Communications Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2010. doi: 10.1109/WICOM.2010.5600668
2017: 生命医薬情報学連合大会研究奨励賞
2008: National Scholarship by Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
GIW/ISCB Asia 2022(program committee)
IIBMP2021 (chairman of the local organizing committee)
Frontier in Genetics (reviewer editor in RNA section, 2021/3 ~ present)
BMC Bioinformatics, Frontier in Genetics, Nature Methods, GIW/ISCB Asia 2022