Invited Lectures

  1. November 2022, Beijing, China: Case-only design to estimate interaction effect in GWAS of rare disease, Postdoc Workshop for Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University
  2. August 2022, Nanjing, China: Assessing the transmissibility of the new SARS-CoV-2 variants: from Delta to Omicron, The 9th International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians
  3. April 2022, Nanjing (online), China: Assessing the transmissibility of the new SARS-CoV-2 variants: from Delta to Omicron, Forum for Young Scholars in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics at Shing-Tung Yau Center of Southeast University
  4. December 2021, Sanya (online), China: Full chromosomal relationships between populations and the origin of humans, Conference on Computational and Mathematical Bioinformatics and Biophysics in Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum
  5. July 2021, Chongqing, China: Statistical methods for Alzheimer’s disease gene-mapping in large cohort studies, The 1st Youth Forum of Peking University Chongqing Institute of Big Data
  6. December 2019, Sanya, China: A novel approach to clustering genome sequences using inter-nucleotide covariance, Conference on Computational and Mathematical Bioinformatics and Biophysics in Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum
  7. June 2019, Beijing, China: A novel approach to clustering genome sequences using inter-nucleotide covariance, The 8th International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians
  8. December 2018, Sanya, China: A new method to cluster genomes based on cumulative Fourier power spectrum, Conferences on Computational and Mathematical Bioinformatics and Biophysics in Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum
  9. April 2018, Beijing, China: Virus database and online inquiry system based on natural vectors, Tsinghua University Doctoral Forum in Mathematics

Poster Presentations

  1. November 2023, Washington DC: The rare disease assumption in the case-only design, The 75th American Society of Human Genetics
  2. May 2023, New York: The rare disease assumption in the case-only design, Postdoc Research Symposium at Columbia University
  3. December 2015, Suzhou, China: Microarray-based Cancer Prediction Model via One-Gene, Cold Spring Harbor Asia (CSHA) / American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) joint conference on Big Data, Computation and Systems Biology in Cancer

Journal Reviewers

Publications

Original Articles (Peer Reviewed)

  1. Dong R, Wang TG, DeWan AT, Leal SM (2025) The case-only design: a powerful approach to detect interactions that should be used with caution: the impact of disease prevalence and other factors on type I and II errors. BMC Genomics, 26(1): 222. PMID: 40050722; PMC11884093
  2. Cornejo-Sanchez DM, Bharadwaj T, Dong R , Wang GT, Schrauwen I, DeWan AT, Leal SM (2025) Mendelian non-syndromic and syndromic hearing loss genes contribute to presbycusis. European Journal of Human Genetics, 1-10. PMID: 40055553
  3. Dong R*, Hu T*, Zhang Y, Li Y, Zhou XH (2022) Assessing the transmissibility of the new SARS-CoV-2 variants: from Delta to Omicron. Vaccines (Special Issue: COVID-19: Epidemiology and Transmission), 10(4): 496. PMID: 35455246; PMC9026126
  4. Dong R, Pei S, Guan M, Yau SC, Yin C, He RL, Yau SST (2022) Full chromosomal relationships between populations and the origin of humans. Frontiers in Genetics, 12: 828805. PMID: 35186019; PMC8847220
  5. Dong R*, Pei S*, Yin C, He RL, Yau SST (2020) Analysis of the hosts and transmission paths of SARS-CoV-2 in the COVID-19 outbreak. Genes, 11(6): 637. PMID: 32526937; PMC7349679
  6. Pei S, Dong R, Bao Y, He RL, Yau SST (2020) Classification of genomic components and prediction of genes of Begomovirus based on subsequence natural vector and support vector machine. PeerJ, 8:e9625. PMID: 32832270; PMC7409808
  7. He L, Dong R, He RL, Yau SST (2020) Positional correlation natural vector: a novel method for genome comparison. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21(11): 3859. PMID: 32485813; PMC7312176
  8. He L*, Dong R*, He RL, Yau SST (2020) A novel alignment-free method for HIV-1 subtype classification. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 77: 104080. PMID: 31683009
  9. Sun N*, Dong R*, Pei S, Yin C, Yau SST (2020) A new method based on coding sequence density to cluster bacteria. Journal of Computational Biology, 27(12): 1688-1698. PMID: 32392428
  10. Dong R, He L, He RL, Yau SST (2019) A novel approach to clustering genome sequences using inter-nucleotide covariance. Frontiers in Genetics, 10:234. PMID: 31024610; PMC6465635
  11. Pei S, Dong R, He RL, Yau SST (2019) Large-scale genome comparison based on cumulative Fourier power and phase spectra: central moment and covariance vector. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 17:982-994. PMID: 31384399; PMC6661692
  12. Dong R*, Zhu Z*, Yin C, He RL, Yau SST (2018) A new method to cluster genomes based on cumulative Fourier power spectrum. Gene 673:239-250. PMID: 29935353
  13. Dong R, Zheng H, Tian K, Yau SC, Mao W, Yu W, Yin C, Yu C, He RL, Yang J, Yau SST (2017) Virus database and online inquiry system based on natural vectors. Evolutionary Bioinformatics 13:1-7. PMID: 29308007; PMC5751915

* Co-first author

Under Revision

  • Li Y, Tai QC, Dong R, You YA, Liang MF, Zhou XH (2024) A 2-transcript signature discriminated SARS-CoV-2 infections from common respiratory viruses before detectable viral RNA on RT-PCR testing. Submitted.