Keith Cheng | Institute of Energy and the Environment

H059 Pathology
Hershey, PA 17033

Elsevier Pure Profile

IEE Research Themes

Health and the Environment

Affiliate Researcher

Distinguished Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Distinguished Professor, Department of Pharmacology

Research Summary

Research interests include the fundamental genetic and molecular mechanisms that cause cancer, basic mechanisms underlying the relationship between human skin pigmentation and cancer, and contributing to web-based infrastructures for science, education, and public service.

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'AI in Health' Grand Rounds to share expertise, build community | Penn State University

October 24, 2024

'AI in Health' Grand Rounds to share expertise, build community

ICDS Day seeks to amplify synergy for interdisciplinary research opportunities | Penn State University

October 3, 2024

ICDS Day seeks to amplify synergy for interdisciplinary research opportunities

$3.8M NIH grant funds 3D tissue and organism visualization project | Penn State University

August 2, 2024

$3.8M NIH grant funds 3D tissue and organism visualization project

Deciphering the genetic link between skin tone and ancestral origins | Penn State University

October 25, 2023

Deciphering the genetic link between skin tone and ancestral origins

November 24, 2020

Seven Penn State faculty named AAAS Fellows

Recipients of 2017 Human Health and the Environment seed grants announced | Penn State University

July 13, 2017

Recipients of 2017 Human Health and the Environment seed grants announced

Research Keywords

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Skin Pigmentation

Genomic Instability

Microsatellite Repeats

X-Ray Microtomography

Glutaric Acidemia I

Genetic Recombination

Recent Publications

Native American genetic ancestry and pigmentation allele contributions to skin color in a caribbean population

Ang, K. C., Canfield, V. A., Foster, T. C., Harbaugh, T. D., Early, K. A., Harter, R. L., Reid, K. P., Leong, S. L., Kawasawa, Y. I., Liu, D. J., Hawley, J. W. & Cheng, K. C., 2023, In: eLife. 12, e77514.

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Prehistoric human migration between Sundaland and South Asia was driven by sea-level rise

Kim, H. L., Li, T., Kalsi, N., Nguyen, H. T. T., Shaw, T. A., Ang, K. C., Cheng, K. C., Ratan, A., Peltier, W. R., Samanta, D., Pratapneni, M., Schuster, S. C. & Horton, B. P., Dec 2023, In: Communications Biology. 6, 1, 150.

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Sinogram domain angular upsampling of sparse-view micro-CT with dense residual hierarchical transformer and attention-weighted loss

Subbakrishna Adishesha, A., Vanselow, D. J., La Riviere, P., Cheng, K. C. & Huang, S. X., Dec 2023, In: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 242, 107802.

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Promoting validation and cross-phylogenetic integration in model organism research

Cheng, K. C., Burdine, R. D., Dickinson, M. E., Ekker, S. C., Lin, A. Y., Lloyd, K. C. K., Lutz, C. M., MacRae, C. A., Morrison, J. H., O'Connor, D. H., Postlethwait, J. H., Rogers, C. D., Sanchez, S., Simpson, J. H., Talbot, W. S., Wallace, D. C., Weimer, J. M. & Bellen, H. J., Sep 2022, In: DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms. 15, 9, dmm049600.

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Whole-Brain Wiring Diagram of Oxytocin System in Adult Mice

Son, S., Manjila, S. B., Newmaster, K. T., Wu, Y. T., Vanselow, D. J., Ciarletta, M., Anthony, T. E., Cheng, K. C. & Kim, Y., Jun 22 2022, In: Journal of Neuroscience. 42, 25, p. 5021-5033 13 p.

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Quantitative relationship between cerebrovascular network and neuronal cell types in mice

Wu, Y. T., Bennett, H. C., Chon, U., Vanselow, D. J., Zhang, Q., Muñoz-Castañeda, R., Cheng, K. C., Osten, P., Drew, P. J. & Kim, Y., Jun 21 2022, In: Cell Reports. 39, 12, 110978.

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A wide-field micro-computed tomography detector: micron resolution at half-centimetre scale

Yakovlev, M. A., Vanselow, D. J., Ngu, M. S., Zaino, C. R., Katz, S. R., Ding, Y., Parkinson, D., Wang, S. Y., Ang, K. C., La Riviere, P. & Cheng, K. C., Mar 1 2022, In: Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 29, p. 505-514 10 p.

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Whole-organism 3d quantitative characterization of zebrafish melanin by silver deposition micro-ct

Katz, S. R., Yakovlev, M. A., Vanselow, D. J., Ding, Y., Lin, A. Y., Parkinson, D. Y., Wang, Y., Canfield, V. A., Ang, K. C. & Cheng, K. C., Sep 2021, In: eLife. 10, e68920.

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Chemical Imaging of Retinal Pigment Epithelium in Frozen Sections of Zebrafish Larvae Using ToF-SIMS

Van Nuffel, S., Ang, K. C., Lin, A. Y. & Cheng, K. C., Jan 6 2021, In: Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 32, 1, p. 255-261 7 p.

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Selective synthetic augmentation with HistoGAN for improved histopathology image classification

Xue, Y., Ye, J., Zhou, Q., Long, L. R., Antani, S., Xue, Z., Cornwell, C., Zaino, R., Cheng, K. C. & Huang, X., Jan 2021, In: Medical Image Analysis. 67, 101816.

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A map of cis-regulatory elements and 3D genome structures in zebrafish

Yang, H., Luan, Y., Liu, T., Lee, H. J., Fang, L., Wang, Y., Wang, X., Zhang, B., Jin, Q., Ang, K. C., Xing, X., Wang, J., Xu, J., Song, F., Sriranga, I., Khunsriraksakul, C., Salameh, T., Li, D., Choudhary, M. N. K. & Topczewski, J. & 6 others, Wang, K., Gerhard, G. S., Hardison, R. C., Wang, T., Cheng, K. C. & Yue, F., Dec 10 2020, In: Nature. 588, 7837, p. 337-343 7 p.

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Enhanced and unified anatomical labeling for a common mouse brain atlas

Chon, U., Vanselow, D. J., Cheng, K. C. & Kim, Y., Dec 1 2019, In: Nature communications. 10, 1, 5067.

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Computational 3d histological phenotyping of whole zebrafish by x-ray histotomography

Ding, Y., Vanselow, D. J., Yakovlev, M. A., Katz, S. R., Lin, A. Y., Clark, D. P., Vargas, P., Xin, X., Copper, J. E., Canfield, V. A., Ang, K. C., Wang, Y., Xiao, X., Carlo, F. D., Rossum, D. B. V., Riviere, P. L. & Cheng, K. C., May 2019, In: eLife. 8, e44898.

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Abstracts of Presentations at the Association of Clinical Scientists 139^th Meeting Hershey, PA, May 15-18, 2019

Donaldson, K., Buchanich, J. M., Grigson, P. S., Deneke, E., Vrana, K. E., Sacks, D. B., Kuehn, G. J., Cardamone, D., Pesce, A., Smiley, S., Nickley, J., Krock, K., Thomas, R., Wilkerson, M. L., Farag, H. A., Challa, S. R., Tice, A. M., Wolk, D. M., Prichard, J. & Grant, M. L. & 102 others, Regmi, S., Kerbacher, B., Quinton, L. E., Tice, A. M., Olson, J., Haynes, A., Yu, E., McCully, K. S., Assi, J., Wong, M., Zarrin-Khameh, N., Nifong, T. P., Hawker, C. D., Carlton, G. T., Rivera, J. M., Foulis, P. R., Zuraw, A., Morlote, D., Peker, D., Reddy, V., Harada, S., Crutchfield, C., Zander, D., Barbhuiya, M. A., Pederson, E. C., Straub, M. L., Scott, S. C., Neibauer, T. L., Salter, W. F., Creer, M. H., Zhu, Y., Bornhorst, J. A., Theobald, J. P., Algeciras-Schimnich, A., Cao, L., Knox, J., Hardy, R., Texas, H. J., McGuire, M. F., Hunter, R. L., Brown, R. E., Hicks, J., Cai, Z., Brown, R. E., Ali, Y., Cheng, K. C., Katz, S. R., Ding, Y., Vanselow, D. J., Yakovlev, M. A., Lin, A. Y., Clark, D. P., Vargas, P., Xin, X., Copper, J. E., Canfield, V. A., Ang, K. C., Wang, Y., Xiao, X., De Carlo, F., van Rossum, D. B., La Rivière, P. J., Newell, J., Hossler, C., Roche, M., Warrick, J., Phaeton, R., Kesterson, J., Myers, C., Barrios, R., Mintz, P., Robyak, K., Hamilton, C., McGhee, P., Pederson, C., Straub, M., Scott, S., Neibauer, T., Salter, W., Robyak, K., Singh, N., Morlote, D., Vnencak-Jones, C., Yemelyanova, A., Harada, S., Shah, M., Moghadamtousi, S. Z., Lan, C., Duose, D., Hu, P., Esquenazi, Y., Luthra, R., Ballester, L. Y., Koenig, A. N., Liu, C. G., Zhang, J., Kalia, A., Al-Habib, A., Van Arsdall, M., Dhingra, S., Patel, K. & Tatevian, N., May 1 2019, In: Annals of clinical and laboratory science. 49, 3, p. 403-416 14 p.

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Identification of African-Specific Admixture between Modern and Archaic Humans

the GenomeAsia 100K Consortium, Dec 5 2019, In: American Journal of Human Genetics. 105, 6, p. 1254-1261 8 p.

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