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Ao Shen

Johns Hopkins UniversityPrimary ORCID profile (0000-0002-1559-3895 · 1 paper)Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Ao SheniD1 paper · University of California, Davis

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Organism:fungi (other)· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1 Research Focus:variant calling· 1 Research Focus:variant effect prediction· 1 Assay:whole-exome sequencing· 1

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The heat-ramp method to study regulated cell death in a pathogenic yeastCryptococcus neoformans

Madhura Kulkarni, Yining Liu, Quanxi Cheng, Chengzhang Zhu, Kuhn Ke, Ao Shen, Bingnan Jin, Arturo Casadevall, Heather M. Lamb, Zachary D. Stolp, J. Marie Hardwick

The paper introduces a heat-ramp method to study regulated cell death in Cryptococcus neoformans, revealing a protracted cell death process in pathogenic yeast.

Methods in cell biology · Jan 1, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology

A method for authenticating the fidelity of Cryptococcus neoformans knockout collections

Ella Jacobs, Quigly Dragotakes, Madhura Kulkarni, Kimberly Kuhn, Ao Shen, Amanda Dziedzic, Anne Jedlicka, J. Marie Hardwick, Arturo Casadevall

The paper identifies mixed plates in a Cryptococcus neoformans knockout collection and proposes an authentication method to distinguish between different KO libraries.

Microbiology Spectrum · Aug 28, 2025Peer-reviewedMicrobiology

CaMutQC: An R Package for Integrative Quality Control of Cancer Somatic Mutations

Xin Wang, Teng‐Jia Jiang, Ao Shen, Yaru Chen, Yanqing Zhou, Jie Liu, Shuhan Zhao, Shifu Chen, Jian Ren, Qi Zhao

CaMutQC is an R package that performs quality control and filtering of cancer somatic mutations, improving accuracy and comparability across studies.

bioRxiv · Aug 12, 2024 · PreprintBioinformatics