Affiliation: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology

Dr. Yong-Xin Liu obtained his undergraduate degree in Biotechnology (Microbiology), his master’s degree in Crop Genetics and Breeding from the Northeast Agricultural University, and his PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, focusing on next-generation sequencing data analysis. He then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGDB, CAS). For the last four years, Dr. Liu has been working as a bioinformatics analyst in IGDB, focusing on microbiome data analysis, method development, and the dissemination of bioinformatics knowledge.

He has published twenty-five articles in different journals including Science, Nature Biotechnology, and Cell Host & Microbe. These articles have been cited over a thousand times. He participated in the development of QIIME 2 and was invited to write review articles about microbiome analysis, which were published in Protein & Cell, Current Opinion in Microbiology, and the Chinese Medical Journal. He is also the editor-in-chief of the WeChat subscription account “Meta-Genome”, which has been releasing over 1,800 essays on updates and news in the field of microbiome, analysis methods, and other bioinformatics knowledge. There are over 90,000 followers of the WeChat account, and the essays have been read more than 14 million times.

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