Updated in June 2022 …

EDUCATION:

• 2010.09-2015.12 Joint Ph.D. in Systems Biology, Soochow University and The University of Chicago.
• 2006.09-2010.06 B.Sc. in Bioinformatics, Soochow University.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• 2016.11-current Postdoctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology.
• 2016.01-2016.10 Lecturer, Soochow University.

HONOR & AWARD:

• 2022.03 GSA DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics
• 2016.12 Excellent Ph.D. dissertation award of Soochow University
• 2014.12 China National Scholarship for Ph.D. graduate students
• 2013-2014 Outstanding graduate student scholarship of Soochow University
• 2011-2012 Outstanding graduate student scholarship of Soochow University
• 2010-2011 Outstanding graduate student scholarship of Soochow University
• 2010.06 Outstanding graduates of Medical College of Soochow University
• 2009-2010 Renmin Scholarship (Grade III) of Soochow University
• 2008-2009 Renmin Scholarship (Grade II) of Soochow University
• 2007-2008 Renmin Scholarship (Grade II) of Soochow University

TEACHING & MENTORING:

• 2020.09-10 Online mentoring one undergraduate (from Bahcesehir University in Turkey) at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
• 2016.09-10 Teaching on the graduate course “Microarray and Next Generation Sequencing data analysis” at Soochow University
• 2016.06-08 Mentoring one undergraduate (from Peking University in China) at The University of Chicago
• 2015.04-06 Teaching Assistant for graduate course “Classics of Evolutionary Genetic” at The University of Chicago
• 2014.04-06 Teaching Assistant for graduate course “Genetic Networks in Molecular Evolution” at The University of Chicago

EDITORIAL SERVICE:

• 2022 – current Review editor for Frontiers in Genetics & Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
• 2021: Serve as a co-guest associate editor for a special issue on the research topic of “The Origination of Genetic Novelties: New Genes, New Regulations, and New Cell Types” hosted by Frontiers in Genetics & Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. [Link]

JOURNAL REFEREE: (Verified by publons)

Molecular Biology and Evolution (MBE), Molecular Ecology(ME), Bioinformatics, Briefings in Bioinformatics, Protein & Cell, Science China Life Sciences, Frontiers in Genetics, Cancers, Open Life Sciences

INVITED SEMINAR:

• 2021.10.21 Symposium on Data Science, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, Germany
• 2020.11.24 Institute for population genetics, Vienna, Austria (Online, hosted by Prof. Christian Schlötterer)
• 2016.08.12 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany. (Hosted by Prof. Diethard Tautz)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION & ATTENDANCE:

• 2022.06.07-10 Population, Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics Conference (PEQG22), Pacific Grove, CA, USA (online oral presentation)
• 2022.05.10-14 The 34th annual meeting on The Biology of Genomes, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA (online attendance)
• 2022.04.06-10 The 63rd Annual Drosophila Research Conference, San Diego, CA, USA (online attendance online)
• 2022.01.05-07 The 55th annual Population Genetics Group Meeting Online (oral presentation)
• 2021.08.16-19 The 2nd AsiaEvo Conference Online (attendance)
• 2021.03.23-04.01 The 62nd Annual Drosophila Research Conference Online (poster presentation)
• 2020.11.17-18 PACBIO VIRTUAL GLOBAL SUMMIT 2020 (attendance)
• 2020.10.05-09 Biodiversity Genomics 2020 Online (organized by Wellcome Sanger institute, attendance)
• 2020.06.02-19 Aquavit 2020 – Online Internal Symposium at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology (oral presentation)
• 2020.05.26-29 The 2020 SMRTLeiden Meeting Online (attendance)
• 2020.04.22-25 The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC) 2020 Online (lightning talk + poster)
• 2020.02.12-14 Evolutionary Systems Biology Conference, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK (lightning talk + poster)
• 2019.08.19-24 The 2019 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Turku, Finland (poster presentation)
• 2019.06.23-26 The 5th International Mouse Meeting, Brno, Czech Republic (oral presentation)
• 2019.05.23-24 Aquavit 2019 – Internal Symposium at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology (oral presentation)
• 2019.05.07-09 The 2019 SMRTLeiden Meeting, Leiden, Netherlands (attendance)
• 2018.10.04-06 The 1st Münster Evolution Meeting, Münster, Germany (poster presentation)
• 2018.05.13-16 Population, Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics Conference (PEQG18), Madison, Wisconsin, USA (poster presentation)
• 2017.07.06-07 Aquavit 2017 – Internal Symposium at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology (oral presentation)

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP:

• Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE)
• European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB)
• The Genetics Society of America (GSA)

ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL TRAINING:

• 2019.03.20 Attendance in the “Media training day workshop on communicating animal research” by European Animal Research Association (Held in Plön)
• 2018.05.13 Participation in the “Genetics peer review training workshop” (Part of the Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference held in Madison, Wisconsin, USA)
• 2018.02-03 Participation in the course “Animal welfare and laboratory animals” (Theoretical part held in Plön, and practical part held in Kiel)
• 2017.09.20-22 Participation in the training course “Effective Presentation – Talks, Posters, and Papers” in Mainz (By Dr. Alexander Schiller & Dr. Daniel Mertens)
• 2017.10.17-21 Training on molecular biology lab skills “Extraction of high molecule weight DNA for long-read sequencing” in Max Planck Genome Centre Cologne, Cologne, Germany
• 2017.03.29 EMBL Course: Using Nanopore Technology for Real-Time, Direct, Scalable DNA/RNA Sequencing. Heidelberg, Germany