Time: 10:00 AM, April 15, 2014

Venue: Conference Room on the 8th Floor of the Statek Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology

Speaker: Prof. Nansheng Chen， Simon Fraser University

Title: Invasion route and virulence of pine wood nematodes revealed by comparative genomics

Introduction to the Speaker:

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