In 2016, I graduated from Northeastern Forestry University in China, ranking 5 in 34 students in academic performance, ranking 1 in 34 in overall grade (including academic and awards, publish, sports, etc). From 2016 to 2018, I was an MSc at Leiden University, majoring in Plant Sciences. I have been working at Naturalis Biodiversity Centre for bioinformatics analysis for 6 months, and in the Institute of Biology Leiden for 10 months, studying auxin transportation response gene TCH family with Arabidopsis.
Now I am a PhD in Utrecht University in environmental biology, using tomato Moneymaker, M82 and Solanum penneilli as a model plant to study the response of shade stress. Shade is a common stress caused by competition for light with neighboring plants. By performing phenotypic analysis and RNA-seq analysis, a list of candidate genes will be generated. After that, I will try to construct stable expression knock-down and overexpression lines and compare their phenotypes to see if they can contribute to tomato agriculture, which may be contributing to tomato agriculture.
I have sufficient molecular technique such as Gateway technique, floral dip transformation, etc, and well-skilled at microscopy technology, like paraffin and plastic embedding method and capable to using vibratome for normal microscopy or confocal microscopy. For bioinformatics levels, I am able to carry out research on evolutionary biology based on phylogeny, including Bayesian analysis, NJ ML and NP.