时间：2014年4月15日 星期二 上午10：00

　　地点：重点实验室楼8楼学术报告厅

　　报告专家：Prof. Nansheng Chen， Simon Fraser University 终身教授

　　报告题目： Invasion route and virulence of pine wood nematodes revealed by comparative genomics (松材线虫入侵路线致病机制的比较基因组学研究)

　　专家简介：

　　Nansheng Chen is a Full Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Simon Fraser University. He is also a CIHR New Investigator and a MSFHR Scholar. He obtained his B.Sc. from Fudan University, Ph.D. from the Institute of Oceanology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Utah, University of British Columbia, and was a senior genome analyst at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He has published more than 60 research articles in competitive journals including Genome Research, Genome Biology, PNAS, Science, Nature Neuroscience, Bioinformatics, and PLoS Computational Biology.

　　Educational Background

　　2002 M.Sc.Software Engineering and Systems Application, University of British Columbia, Canada

　　1994 Ph.D.Neurophysiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

　　1989 B.Sc.Physiology and Biophysics, Fudan University, China

　　Employment History at Academic Institutions

　　July 2013 - presentProfessor (tenured), Bioinformatics/Genomics, Simon Fraser University

　　July 2009 - September 2013 Associate Professor (tenured), Bioinformatics/Genomics, Simon Fraser University

　　July 2006 - September 2009Associate Professor (tenure track), Bioinformatics/Genomics, Simon Fraser University

　　September 2002 - June 2006Postdoctoral fellow/Scientific programmer/Senior Genome Analyst, Bioinformatics/Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

　　September 2001 - December 2001Intern/Programmer, Bioinformatics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

　　July 1996 - December 2000Postdoctoral fellow/Research Associate, Neuroscience, University of British Columbia

　　December 1994 - June 1996Postdoctoral fellow, Physiology/Neuroscience, University of Utah