Speaker

Xu Xun , PhD, BGI Chief Scientist, Director of State Key Laboratory of Genome and Multi-omics Technologies, PhD Supervisor of UCAS and Wuhan University. He serves as the convenor of WG6 for Biotechnology Committee (ISO/TC276), and member of SAC TC559.

His research interests focus on developing sequencing, single-cell and stereo omics technologies. He designed and developed the first BGI sequencers, as well as the DNBelab C4, stereo-seq and stereo-cell technologies. He also made his efforts in applying these technologies to understand biodiversity and applications in agriculture and disease research. Dr. Xu published 200+ scientific peer-reviewed papers with 80,000+ citations in last five years and selected ten times as the “Clarivate Highly Cited Scientist”.

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