Dr. Peng has a multidisciplinary background with undergraduate and graduate degrees in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Foods and Nutrition, and Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics from UT-ORNL Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology. Prior to joining the Katze laboratory in 2008, he worked for 3 years as Bioinformatics Manager at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (now Seattle BioMed). He is interested in systems analysis of host responses, and getting involved early in experimental design. He is interested in developing computational solutions for applying new technologies.