Associate Professor Lisui Bao was awarded the 2nd "BGI OceanOmics Young Scientists Award"

On September 5, at the opening ceremony of the 17th International Conference on Genomics (ICG-17) held in Qingdao, the winners of the 2nd "BGI OceanOmics Young Scientists Award" were announced, and Associate Professor Lisui Bao from our lab was awarded. The "BGI OceanOmics Young Scientists Award" was established by BGI and academicians from many countries in 2018, which aims to explore outstanding young scholars around the world and promote the healthy and stable development of marine scientific research.

Invited by the conference, Associate Professor Lisui Bao gave a talk of "The forever-young secret of scallop sex chromosomes: exceptions to the general rules", introduced the progress of our research group in the study of the origin and evolution of scallop sex-chromosomes. 

Brief introduction of Associate Professor Lisui Bao: Mainly engaged in functional genomics research, was responsible for or participated in a series of large-scale omics projects, had extensive experience in the aspects of assembly technology of complex genomes, sex chromosome evolution and sex determination, and multi-omics analysis of aquatic adaptive traits etc. The main papers were published as first/corresponding authors in Nat Ecol Evol, Nat Cancer, Nat Commun, Cell Discov, BMC Biol, Mol Ecol Resour and so on.

"BGI OceanOmics Young Scientists Award" Ceremony

(Second from the right: Lisui Bao Associate Professor)

Associate Professor Lisui Bao giving a talk at the conference