CHEN Fei

Assistant Professor
Laboratory of Genome Sciences & Information
Beijing Institute of Genomics
China

Professor Genetics
Biography

Dr. CHEN is currently a professor in “100 talents program” of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He received his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry and molecular biology in 2003 from Jilin University. In 2005, he entered the University of Florida as a postdoctoral associate in the group of Dr Steven Benner. From 2006 to 2012, he worked as a research scientist, then a senior research scientist in the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Inc. His research interest is mainly focused on the structural and functional genomics of pathogens, as well as metagenomics. He has published number of peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals including “PNAS”, “JACS”, and “Nucleic Acid Res”, and also jointly owned three patents.

Research Intrest

Metagenomics, Respiratory pathogens, Antigenicity

List of Publications
Chen F, Yang Z, Yan M, Brian JA, Wang GG, Benner SA. Recognition of an expanded genetic alphabet by type-II restriction endonucleases and their application to analyze polymerase fidelity. Nucleic Acid Res. 2011. 39: 3949-61.
Zhu L#, Zhong J#, Jia X#, Liu G#, Kang Y#, Dong M, Zhang X, Li Q, Yue L, Li C, Fu J, Xiao J, Yan J, Zhang B, Lei M, Chen S, Lv L, Zhu B, Huang H*, Chen F*. Precision methylome characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) using PacBio Single-Molecule Real-Time (SMRT) Technology. Nucleic Acids Research. 2016. 44(2): 730-743. (*Corresponding Author)