2014年3月14日学术报告：Applied Comparative Genomics

报告人：Dr Nansheng Chen / Professor / Molecular Biology & Biochemistry，Simon Fraser University

报告题目：Applied Comparative Genomics

报告时间和地点：2014年3月14日（星期五）下午15:30，生科院

Summary Dr. Nansheng Chen is a tenured full professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Simon Fraser University, a top Comprehensive University in Canada. Dr. Chen is also a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) Scholar and a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) New Investigator. He was a vising professor at Fudan University (2008-2010) and senior visiting professor at Tsinghua University (2012-2013). Dr. Chen has established himself as an expert in bioinformatics and genomics and has published >60 research articles in journals including Science, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, PNAS, Genome Research, PLoS Computational Biology, and Genome Biology. His research on malaria genomics has attracted extensive media coverage.

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Educational Background

2002  M.Sc.   Software Engineering and Systems Application, University of British Columbia, Canada

1994  Ph.D.   Neurophysiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

1989  B.Sc.   Physiology and Biophysics, Fudan University, China

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Employment History at Academic Institutions

July 2013 - present                  Professor (tenured), Bioinformatics/Genomics, Simon Fraser University

July 2009 - September 2013   Associate Professor (tenured), Bioinformatics/Genomics, Simon Fraser University

July 2006 - September 2009   Associate Professor (tenure track), Bioinformatics/Genomics, Simon Fraser University

September 2002 - June 2006   Postdoctoral fellow/Scientific programmer/Senior Genome Analyst, Bioinformatics/Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

September 2001 - December 2001   Intern/Programmer, Bioinformatics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

July 1996 - December 2000    Postdoctoral fellow/Research Associate, Neuroscience, University of British Columbia

December 1994 - June 1996   Postdoctoral fellow, Physiology/Neuroscience, University of Utah