Carol Huang, Sr. Research Specialist

 

 

 

Education: 

M.S. in Plant Science; University of California, Davis. 1998

B.S. in Horticulture; China 

 

Projects: 

100K Genome Project          Skin microbiome

IBM/Mars Food Safety Consortium      Microbiome sequencing

 

Work Experience:

Calgene/Monsanto, Davis, CA. 1998 – 2010

Manuscripts:

  1. Kaufman, James H.*, Christopher A. Elkins, Matthew Davis, Allison M. Weis, Bihua C. Huang, Mark K. Mammel, Isha R. Patel, Kristen L. Beck, Stefan Edlund, David Chambliss, Judith Douglas, Simone Bianco, Mark Kunitomi, Bart C. Weimer. 2018. Insular Microbiogeography. In Microbial Ecology: Current advances from genomics, metagenomics and other “omics”. Edited by Diana Marco. Caister Academic Press, Poole, UK. 
  2. Arabyan, Narine, Bihua C. Huang, and Bart C. Weimer. 2017. Draft genomes of Salmonella enterica sv Typhimurium LT2 with deleted chitinases that are emerging virulence factors. Genome Announcements 5:e00659-17 (PMID:28774970
  3. Kong, Nguyet, Narine Arabyan, Kao Thao, Whitney Ng, Bihua C. Huang, Dylan Bobby Storey, Poyin Chen, Allison M. Weis, Soraya Foutouhi, Azarene Foutouhi, Yi Xie, and Bart C. Weimer. 2017. Draft genome sequences of 1183 Salmonella from the 100K Pathogen Genome Project. Genome Announcements 5:e00518-17. (PMID: 28705963).
  4. Arabyan, Narine, Bihua C. Huang, and Bart C. Weimer. 2017. Draft Genomes of Salmonella lysozyme knockouts. Genome Announcements 5:e00519-17. (PMID: 28596411)
  5. Rheault, Jean-Guillaume Emond, Julie Jeukens, Luca Freschi, Irena Kukavica-Ibrulj, Brian Boyle, Marie-Josée Dupont, Anna Colavecchio, Virginie Barrere, Brigitte Cadieux, Maud Kerhoas, Alanna Crouse, Lei Zhu, Line Larivière, Ana Victoria Pilar, Camille Cavestri, Travis K. Chapin, Denise Tremblay, Caroline Vincent, Eric Fournier, Khadija Youfsi, Ida Ngueng-Feze, Lingqiao Song, Valentine Usongo, Florence Doualla-Bell, Chrystal Berry, Aleisha R. Reimer, Nguyet Kong, Carol B. Huang, Karen Fong, Emily D. Wilson, Kakali Mukhopadhyay, Walid Mottawea, Dele Ogunremi, Hongsheng Huang, Gitanjali Arya, Ann Perets, Catherine Yoshida, James Robertson, Joel Weadge, Michelle D. Danyluk, John Rohde, Rafael Garduno, Siyun Wang, Céline Nadon, Paul Thomassin,Yann Joly, Ismail Fliss, Gisèle Lapointe, Linda Harris, Roger Stephan, Elton Burnett, Sylvain Moineau, Sandeep Tamber, Sadjia Bekal, France Daigle, Samantha Gruenheid, Danielle Malo, Thomas Wittum, Pascal Delaquis, Alexander Gill, Kenneth E. Sanderson, Martin Wiedmann, Eelco Franz, Lucas Wijnands, Bart C. Weimer, Lawrence Goodridge, and Roger C. Levesque. 2017. A Syst-OMICS Approach to Ensuring Food Safety and Reducing the Economic Burden of Salmonellosis. Frontiers in Microbiology 8:996. (PMID: 28626454) Special issue on food safety
  6.  Arabyan, Narine, Allison M. Weis, Bihua C. Huang, and Bart C. Weimer. 2017. Implications of sialidases in diseases: Genome release of Salmonella sialidase knockout strains. Genome Announcements 5:e00341-17. (PMID: 28495784)
  7. Arabyan, Narine, Bihua C. Huang, and Bart C. Weimer. 2017. Amylases and their importance during glycan degradation: Genome sequence release of Salmonella amylase knockout strains. Genome Announcements 5:e00355-17. (PMID: 28522713)
  8. Kaufman, James H., Christopher A. Elkins, Matthew Davis, Allison M Weis, Bihua Huang, Mark K Mammel, Isha R. Patel, Kristen L. Beck, Stefan Edlund, David Chambliss, Simone Bianco, Mark Kunitomi, Bart C. Weimer. 2017. Microbiogeography and microbial genome evolution. arXiv:1703.07454 [q-bio.GN].
  9. Weis, Allison M., Brent Gilpin, Bihua C. Huang, Nguyet Kong, Poyin Chen, and Bart C. Weimer. 2017. Shigella draft genomes: resources for food safety and public health. Genome Announcements 5:e00176-17. (PMID: 28428292)
  10. Weis, Allison M., Kristen A. Clothier, Bihua C. Huang, Nguyet Kong, and Bart C. Weimer. 2017. Multidrug-resistant abortive Campylobacter jejuni draft genome from Northern California. Genome Announcements 5:e00171-17. (PMID: 28408683)
  11. Draper, Jenny L., Lori M. Hansen, David Bernick, Samar Abedrabbo, Jason G. Underword, Nguyet Kong, Carol B. Huang, Allison M. Weis, Bart C. Weimer, Arnoud Van Vliet, Nader Pourmand, Jay V. Solnick, Kevin Karplus, Karen M. Ottemann. 2017. Fallacy of the unique genome: Sequence diversity within single Helicobacter pylori mBio 8:e02321-16. (PMID: 28223462).
  12. Chen, Poyin, Nguyet Kong, Bihua Huang, Kao Thao, Whitney Ng, Dylan Bobby Storey, Narine Arabyan, Azarene Foutouhi, Soraya Foutouhi, and Bart C. Weimer. 100K Pathogen Genome Project: 306 Listeria draft genomes for food safety and public health. 2017. Genome Announcements 5:e00967-16. (PMID: 28183778).
  13. Kong, Nguyet, Azarene Foutouhi, B. Carol Huang, Narine Arabyan, Kao Thao, Whitney Ng, Dylan Storey, Lucy Cai, Eric Lee, Richard Jeannotte, Lenore Kelly, Bart C. Weimer. A Next Generation Sequencing Library Workflow for Foodborne Pathogens with Quality Control Parameters for Quantification and Shearing conditions using the Agilent 2200 TapeStation System. Standards in Genomics (in press)
  14. Weis, Allison M., Bihua C. Huang, Dylan B. Storey, Nguyet Kong, Poyin Chen, Narine Arabyan, Brent Gilpin, Carl Mason, Andrea K. Townsend, Woutrina A. Miller, Barbara A. Byrne, Conor C. Taff, and Bart C. Weimer. 2017. Large-scale release of Campylobacter draft genomes; resources for food safety and public health from the 100K Pathogen Genome Project. Genome Announcements 5(1):e00925-16. (PMID: 28057746).
  15. Weis, Allison M., Kristin A. Clothier, Bihua C. Huang, Nguyet Kong, Jessica Wasserscheid, Ken Dewar, Bart C. Weimer. 2017. Comparative Genomics of Abortive Campylobacter jejuni Isolates from Multiple Hosts. (submitted) AEM
  16. Chen, Poyin, Taylor Reiter, Bihua Huang, Nguyet Kong, and Bart C. Weimer. 2017. Prebiotic oligosaccharides potentiate host protective responses against Listeria monocytogenes (Submitted) (invited contribution in Special issue on Listeria monocytogenes and host interactions).
  17.  Kaufman, James*, Carol B.Huang, Mark K Mammel, Isha R. Patel, Kristen L. Beck, Stefan Edlund, David Chambliss, Simone Bianco, Bart C. Weimer. 2017. Genomic diversity of microbes. Re-Submitted 9/25/17
  18. Kong, Nguyet, Whitney Ng, Lucy Cai, Alvin Leonardo, Patrick Ancheta, B. Carol Huang, Kao Thao, Azarene Foutouhi, Lenore Kelly and Bart C. Weimer. 2017. KAPA Biosystems HTP Library Preparation Kit Using Agilent Electrophoresis Instruments for Quality Control of Library Construction Pipeline. (submitted). Biotechniques – 1/31/17
  19. Weis, Allison M., Kristin A. Clothier, Bihua C. Huang, Nguyet T. Kong, and Bart C. Weimer. Campylobacter jejuni that cause abortion in livestock. Genome Announcements 4(6):e01324-16. (PMID: 27908990).
  20. Weis, Allison M., Dylan B. Storey, Conor C. Taff, Andrea K. Townsend, Bihua C. Huang, Nguyet T. Kong, Kristin A. Clothier, Abigail Spinner, Barbara A. Byrne, Bart C. Weimer. Genomic comparison of Campylobacter spp. and their potential for zoonotic transmission between birds, primates, and livestock. App. Environ. Microbiol. 82: 7165-7175. (PMID: 27736787)
  21. Miller, Bronwen, Beverley van Rooyen, Heather Whitehorn, Piet Jones, Martin Ranik, Eric van der Walt, Maryke Appel, Nguyet Kong, Carol Huang, Dylan Storey, Bart C. Weimer. 2015, A novel, single-tube enzymatic fragmentation and library construction method enables fast turnaround times and improved data quality for microbial whole-genome sequencing. Kapa Biosystems Application Note (072314 KK1234; DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4534.3440)
  22. Kong, Nguyet, Whitney Ng, Azarene Foutouhi, B. Carol Huang, and Bart C. Weimer. 2014. Quality Control of High-Throughput Library Construction Pipeline for KAPA HTP Library Using an Agilent2200 TapeStation. Agilent Technologies application note (5991-5141EN; DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4927.5604).
  23. Jeannotte, Richard, Eric Lee, Narine Arabyan, Nguyet Kong, Kao Thao, Carol Huang and Bart C. Weimer. Optimization of Covaris settings for shearing bacterial genomic DNA by focused ultrasonication and analysis using Agilent 2200 TapeStation. Agilent Technologies application note. (5991-5075EN; DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4424.1444)
  24. Kong, Nguyet, Kao Thao, Carol Huang, Maryke Appel, Stephen Lappin, Lisa Knapp, Lenore Kelly, and B.C. Weimer. 2014. Automated Library Construction Using KAPA Library Preparation Kits on the Agilent NGS Workstation Yields High-Quality Libraries for Whole-Genome Sequencing on the Illumina Platform. Agilent Technologies application note (5991-4296EN; DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2306.1203)