Biography:

XU Jian (xujian@qibebt.ac.cn) currently serves as Director of Single-Cell Center, Director of Advanced Biomanufacturing Division. He is a member of the Consultation Committee of Life Science Division of NSFC, and a founding editor of mSystems and mLife. 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 200 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 >20,000 citations (H-index 69). 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, and supporting the iMAPS Consortium (http://iMAPS.info). 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) Instrument and application development for the Ramanomics Platform

2) Microalgal synthetic biology for carbon dioxide fixation and biofuels

3) The iMAPS Consortium (In-situ Metabolic Atlas Projects @ Single-cell; http://iMAPS.info)

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