Chol Hee Jung PhD (The University of Queensland)

Dr. Chol Hee Jung is a Research Fellow and Bioinformatician at the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) in Carlton, Victoria, Australia. He earned his PhD from The University of Queensland and has contributed to over 25 indexed publications in computational biology and bioinformatics. His most influential work, "Smoking and blood DNA methylation: an epigenome-wide association study and assessment of reversibility" (2019), has been cited 81 times and exemplifies his research focus on epigenomics and the molecular impacts of environmental exposures. Dr. Jung's expertise lies in applying computational methods to large-scale biological datasets to advance understanding of gene regulation and disease mechanisms.

1. Genome-wide DNA methylation assessment of ‘BRCA1-like’ early-onset breast cancer: Data from the Australian Breast Cancer Family Registry.
2. Alcohol consumption is associated with widespread changes in blood DNA methylation: analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal data.
3. sEst: Accurate Sex-Estimation and Abnormality Detection in Methylation Microarray Data.
4. Physical Activity, Television Viewing Time, and DNA Methylation in Peripheral Blood.
5. Dietary intake of one-carbon metabolism nutrients and DNA methylation in peripheral blood.
6. Obtaining high quality transcriptome data from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded diagnostic prostate tumor specimens.
7. DNA methylation-based biological aging and cancer risk and survival: Pooled analysis of seven prospective studies: Epigenetic aging and cancer risk and survival.
8. Novel associations between blood DNA methylation and body mass index in middle-Aged and older adults.