Assistant Professor
Laboratory of Genome Sciences & Information
Beijing Institute of Genomics
China
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.
Metagenomics, Respiratory pathogens, Antigenicity