The laboratory is centered around the development of metagenomic methods, with a strong emphasis on third-generation sequencing and emerging techniques like single-cell microbiology. The primary goal is to dissect the interactions among the human genome, microbiota, and nutritional aspects, leveraging functional foods and gut microbiota to enhance human health. Additionally, efforts are directed towards establishing a distinctive Chinese scientific food and nutrition communication framework.
Yahui Li，Email：liyahui@caas.cn
Yahui Li graduated from the University of California, Riverside with a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics. Joined the research team as an assistant researcher in September 2023, mainly engaged in metagenomic bioinformatics analysis and visualization method development, microbiome database construction, and scientific communications
Huiyu Hou, Email: houhuiyu@caas.cn
Defeng Bai, Email: baidefeng@caas.cn
Junbo Yang, Email: yanjunbo@caas.cn
Salsabeel Yousuf, Email: Salsabeel@caas.cn
Yao Wang, Email: wangyao@caas.cn
Tianyuan Zhang, Email:zhangtianyuan@caas.cn
2013.09-2017.06 Undergraduate pharmaceutical engineering major at the College of Plant Protection, Henan Agricultural University
2017.09-2020.06 Plant protection supervisor for master's students at the College of Plant Protection, Henan Agricultural University: Professor Zhou Lin
2020.09-2023.06 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology supervisor for doctoral students at South China Botanical Garden, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Researcher Qu Hongxia’s main research direction: During her doctoral studies, her research direction was the impact of epigenetic modifications on fruit ripening and development and the regulation of postharvest fruit quality, combining genomics, bioinformatics and other related methods, with a focus on functional genes and metabolic pathways.
2020.09-2023.07 Ecology (Ph.D. candidate), Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences;
2015.09-2018.07 Beijing Forestry University Wildlife Conservation and Utilization (Master's degree);
2011.09-2015.07 Beijing Forestry University Wildlife Conservation and Nature Reserve Management (Undergraduate)
2022.6-present Project leader of Yuguo Biotech (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. Research direction: Development of tNGS platform based on super multiplex PCR.
2018.12-2022.5 Peking University (PKU) - Genetics/Bioinformatics Research subject: Functional study of m6A modified by RNA methylation in plants;
2011.9-2018.7 Institute of Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGDB) Genetics research on wheat molecular genetic breeding;
2007.9-2011.7 China Agricultural University (CAU) Facilities Agricultural Science and Engineering
Salsabeel Yousuf has been involved in research of animal genetics breeding and reproduction specializing on structural, functional & evolutionary genomics, transcriptomics studies, and high throughput protein modeling, docking, and MD simulation along with large-scale data handling using Linux and Windows advanced bioinformatics approaches. Her research interests are further driven toward studying crosstalk of non-coding RNAs and mRNAs as ceRNA networks, applying targeted and non-targeted metabolomic approaches, and integrating multi-omics layers to understand the complete mechanism of genetic control for important target traits and how that can be manipulated to achieve ultimate desired results including prediction of key responsive genetic material & validation by advance multiple functional genetic approaches.
In 2022, she graduated from the University of Gottingen, Germany with a doctorate in Agronomy. At present, he is mainly engaged in metagenomic research of plant microorganisms.
Since 2014, he has been engaged in bioinformatics research, including genome and transcriptome-related work such asomics-based metabolic pathway mining, resource utilization, and functional regulation research. During his PhD training, he was engaged in microbial research based on Nanopore sequencing, evaluated sequencing technology and application .
Haifei Yang
Hao Luo