The XIALAB consists of a molecular biology laboratory and a bioinformatics analysis workshop.
The molecular laboratory, spanning 100 square meters, is equipped with a comprehensive range of fundamental instruments for molecular and cell biology experiments, including nucleic acid extraction and purification, gene cloning, gene expression analysis, protein purification and characterization, plants tissue culture, plants transgenic technology as well as high-through library construction.
The bioinformatics workshop is built for addressing the high-through data analysis problem. With the help of two high-performance servers and multiple workstations, requirements from data generation and analysis to experimental validation can be satisfied.
Ph.D. Horticulture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA, 2013
M.S. Pomology, South China Agricultural University, China, 2007
B.S. Horticulture, South China Agricultural University, China, 2004
Since 2000, we step into the “big data” era, with the advanced development of high-throughput technologies, huge amount of biological data are generated. The flower sexual determination and flower development are hot topics and valuable agronomic traits in fruit crops . Our research areas mainly focus on the mechanism underlying of flower sex determination and flower development in tropical and subtropical fruit trees involving lychee, longan and papaya by combining the genetics, comparative genomics, cell biology, bioinformatics and multiple high-throughput deep sequencing techniques.
