GENOMICS

• I got introduced to NGS from the very start of my career at Baylor college of Medicine, Human Genome Sequencing Center. I was always fascinated and amazed with the advancements made in the technology which led me to take up FAS role. I have been with MGI for more than 2 years now and supported Population Genome Project using DNBSEQ-T7 at UAE.

• Earned a Master's degree in Neurobiology and Medical Physiology from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands in December 1999.
• Completed a Ph.D. in Molecular Neurobiology from the same university in February 2005.
• Undertook a Postdoctoral fellowship in Neuroscience at Karolinska Institute, Sweden, completed in August 2007.
• Further pursued a Postdoctoral fellowship in Neuroscience at the University of Aberdeen, UK, completed in August 2010. This fellowship was supported by the Alzheimer Research Trust.

I began my journey with the Human Protein Atlas (HPA) project under Prof. Mathias Uhlén and Prof. Tomas Hökfelt in 2004, exploring the use of HPA antibodies on rodent brain tissues. This led to several papers on the distribution of the then-uncharacterized protein, secretagogin. In 2007, I joined Prof. Tibor Harkany's lab in Aberdeen on an Alzheimer Research Trust fellowship to study the endocannabinoid system's role in Alzheimer’s disease and brain development. I returned to Sweden in 2010 to establish an immunofluorescence national facility at SciLifeLab, aiding Swedish researchers with multiplex analysis for protein distributions. In 2018, my group relocated to Biomedicum to focus on the HPA project and contribute to the brain section of the atlas. We use transcriptomics and antibody-based methods to study protein expression and distribution in the brains of humans and other mammals.

Yen-Yu Lin is a senior field application scientist and the coordinator of FAS team in BGI

Research/STOmics EU, where she specialized in Stereo-seq technical support. She speaks regularly in seminars and workshops to researchers and students and conducts training and troubleshooting for Stereo-seq users. Yen-Yu received the government scholarship to study abroad and graduated from University of Munich with doctoral degree in Genetics. She was trained in molecular medicine program and studied phytopathology, therefore, she is experienced with different research models. She has over 10-year experience in molecular biology and has experience in transcriptomic data analysis. Yen-Yu is currently based in Munich. She has supported the establishment of Stereo-seq workflow in research institutes in the UK and EU regions and provided technical support for different Stereo-seq platforms.

• Graduate of the University of Queensland, B Sc (Hons), Macquarie University, M Sc (Hons) and La Trobe University (PhD).

Professor Robert Henry conducts research on the development of new products from plants. He is particularly interested in Australian flora and plants of economic and social importance. His research uses genome sequencing to capture novel genetic resources to improve understanding of the molecular basis of the quality of products produced from plants, and genome analysis to capture novel genetic resources for diversification of food and energy crops. Robert Henry is Professor of Innovation in Agriculture at The University of Queensland.

• Obtained a Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University/National Institute of Biological Sciences (NIBS).

Shang-Tong Li, obtained his Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University/National Institute of Biological Sciences (NIBS), now he is the CEO of Glibizzia Biosciences, which aims to develop affordable genotyping technologies and efficient phenotype prediction tools to make life predictable and support precision breeding in agricultural plants, animals and pets.

• Obtained Doctoral degree (PhD) at Huazhong Agricultural University

Dr. Xiaolei Liu, a professor and doctoral supervisor at Huazhong Agricultural University, specializes in statistical genetics and genomic breeding. His research focuses on statistical genetics algorithms, multi-omics integration knowledge bases, and intelligent phenomics studies. He and his team have developed algorithms such as Farm CPU and KAML, software packages including rMVP and HIBLUP, and multi-omics integration knowledge bases like Animal and Swine. These tools have been extensively utilized in pig genetics and breeding research, as well as in other agricultural organisms. His research accomplishments have been published in Genome Biology, Nucleic Acids Research, Briefings in Bioinformatics, Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics, and PLoS Genetics.

• Medical Geneticist. Universidad del Rosario. Bogota. Colombia
• Masters degree in Genetic Epidemiology, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Current President of the Colombian Society of Human Genetics

Medical Geneticist. Medical and scientific director at Gencell Pharma President of the Colombian Society of Human Genetics. Master degree in Human Genetics and Master degree in Genetic Epidemiology.

• BSc in Biology from the University of York, Uk.MSc in Life Sciences (genomics) from Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain (working at the Center for Genomic Regulation).
• PhD in Life Sciences (genomics) from Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spair (working at the Center for Genomic Regulation).Post-doctoral studies at the Universite Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France

My PhD was on genome

applying methods to identify and study the evolution of selenoprotein genes in eukaryotic genomes. My post-doctoral work was in Systems Biology, specifically analysis of protein protein interaction networks. Since 2016, I have been working on NGS data, variant calling and annotation.

• Dr. Akbar Pathan has a PhD in Comparative Genomics from a collaborative program between Max Planck Institute, Germany and Andhra University, India. He has completed his postdoctoral training at the Department of Biochemistry, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), and served as an Assistant Professor at King Saud University's Genome Research Center.

With over 15 years in Genomics, Dr. Akbar Pathan, a Senior FAS Manager at MGI, uses his expertise to support customers and sales/marketing teams. Holding a PhD in comparative genomics, and with a background in both academia and industry, he has 50+ publications and several influential book chapters to his name.

• PhD in Biomedical Sciences: Obtained from the University of Ulster in 1999.

I have obtained my PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Ulster in 1999 followed by post-doctoral position at the labs of Eamonn Maher and Farida Latif in Birmingham UK. I have joined King Abdulaziz University in 2008 until 2021. I recently joined NoorDx Diagnostics and Discovery Laboratories at KAUST as the Lab Director and Chief Scientific Officer.

With over 20 years in the lab harnessing genetics and epigenetics, I've published 60+ high-quality papers (H-Index 33) and spearheaded genomic profiling for breast and colon cancer, and genetic diseases research in Saudi Arabia. At NoorDx, I continue using advanced molecular techniques to enable personalized medicine in the Middle East.

• PhD in Bioinformatics, Humboldt University of Berlin
• Specialised research on the development of innovative algorithms and methodologies
• Focused on the analysis of large-scale biological datasets
• Emphasis on the fields of genomics and molecular biology

I obtained my PhD in Bioinformatics from Humboldt University of Berlin, where I developed innovative algorithms for analyzing large-scale biological datasets, particularly in genomics and molecular biology. After completing my doctorate, I embarked on a dynamic career as a bioinformatician, applying my expertise to tackle real-world challenges in life science.