Principle Investigator

Wei Shen, PhD in Science, Associate Professor in Bioinformatics (started Dec 2022), working at Institute for Viral Hepatitis, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, China

Research Interests

• Large-scale sequence searching and alignment
• Taxonomic assignment and profiling
• Clinical pathogen detection based on NGS/TGS
• Viral (Phage) genomics
• Reproducible tools for bioinformatics and data science
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Education

• PhD in Microbiolgy, 2017, Third Military Medical University, China
• MSc in Bioinformatics, 2013, Third Military Medical University, China
• BSc in Bioinformatics, 2010, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Professional experience

• Visiting scholar: Oct 2023 - Sep 2024, EMBL-EBI, UK. Hosted by Zamin Iqbal, Sequence alignment against millions of prokaryotic genomes.
• Postdoc: Dec 2020 - Nov 2022, Chongqing Medical University. Supervised by Hong Ren. Metagenomic profiling and pathogen detection.

Honours and awards

• EMBL Sabbatical Visitor Fellowship (2024)
• Theory@EMBL Fellowship (2023)
• Chinese Scholarship Council fellowship (2023)

Grants

• China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2021, 2021M700640)
• National Natural Science Foundation of China (2020, 32000474)

(last update: 2025-03-24)