Biography:

XU Jian (xujian@qibebt.ac.cn) currently serves as Director of Single-Cell Center, Director of BioEnergy Division and Assistant Director General at CAS-QIBEBT. He was born in Zhangzhou, Fujian, China in 1976. He obtained B.S in Biotechnology from Peking University in 1997, and M.S. in Computer Science and PhD in Biochemistry under Jeffrey Gordon from Washington University in St. Louis in 2003. After serving as Research Instructor at Genome Institute of Washington University, he joined Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS-QIBEBT) in 2008 and has been the founding Director of Single-Cell Center, CAS-QIBEBT. Jian has published over 140 papers on leading journals such as Science, Cell Host & Microbe, Nature Communications, Science Advances, PNAS, PLoS Biology, PLoS Genetics, ISME J, mBio, Anal Chem, Lab Chip etc. with >18,000 citations (H-index 64). He is a senior editor of mSystems and also served at the Editorial Board of Algal Research and Appl Env Microbiol. His contribution was recognized by a number of career awards from NSFC, MOST and CAS, including National Distinguished Young Scholars Award (2014), National Young-Scientist Award for Science and Technology (2016) and VCANBIO Award for Biosciences and Medicine (2016). He has mentored nearly 20 doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars, and was recognized for excellence in mentorship via the 2013 CAS 100 Best Doctoral Thesis Mentor Award and the 2014 UCAS-BHPB Mentorship Award. 

Single-Cell Center (http://www.single-cell.cn/) consists of over 90 specialists from single-cell genomics, synthetic biology, microfluidics, bioinformatics, optical engineering and precision instrumentation. The center introduced new concepts for single-cell metabolic phenomics such as ‘ramanome’, ‘meta-ramanome’ and ‘MIC-MA’. It has invented the Ramanomics Instrument Series (FlowRACS, RACS-Seq/Culture, EasySort, Digital Colony Picker, etc; http://www.eCyteBio.com/), and developed single-cell, meta-ramanomics, and metagenomics big-data software. These novel instruments are finding broad applications in biomanufacturing, synthetic biology, precision medicine, agriculture, and environmental remediation. Moreover, the center developed genetic as well as high-throughput single-cell phenotyping tools for industrial microalgae, using Nannochloropsis oceanica as a model, for scalable CO₂ fixation and photosynthetic production of nutraceuticals and biofuels.

Research Interests: 

1) Single-cell analysis and instrument development 

2) Microalgal synthetic biology for carbon dioxide fixation and biofuels

3) Human microbiota and health

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