Speaker Intro
Rongling Wu, received a Ph.D. in Quantitative Genetics from the University of Washington (Seattle) in 1995. He was a Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Public Health Sciences at Pennsylvania State University, and Director of the Center for Statistical Genetics. He is currently the Zeng Siming Chair Professor of Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University. He is also a researcher at Yanqi Lake Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, and also serves as editor-in-chief, associate editor, special editor and editorial board member of several journals in the fields of genetics, bioinformatics and computational biology. He was selected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Statistical Association, and won the Distinguished Researcher Award of the American Institute of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (SAMSI), the University of Florida Research Fund Professor Award, the Pennsylvania State University Distinguished University Professor Award, and the Floyd Science Innovation Award. Research interests include: developing interdisciplinary statistical methods to reveal the genetic control mechanisms of complex traits and human complex diseases. The proposed functional mapping method can effectively discover the genetic rules of trait development and describe the key patterns of gene effects changing over time and space. Combining functional mapping with evolutionary game theory, scale theory, and prey-predator theory, a series of computational methods have been developed to construct multi-level, multi-space, and multi-scale genotype-phenotype relationships from molecules to phenotypes The three-dimensional network provides analysis tools for systems biology, systems medicine, and systems pharmacology research. Published more than 400 SCI papers in important international journals such as Nature Reviews Genetics, Nature Communications, PNAS, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Annals of Applied Statistics, Physics of Life Reviews, Physics Reports, Briefings in Bioinformatics, Cell Reports, Evolution, etc. The research results have been cited or highlighted by important journals such as Science and Cell.
Member Seminar Intro
The BIMSA member seminar is a weekly event during which researchers engage in discussions about their extensive research interests, addressing a diverse audience that includes fellow researchers and all postdoctoral scholars within the institute. This forum provides a unique privilege and an invaluable opportunity for each research faculty member, serving as a speaker, to introduce their research field, promote the subject within the institute, and ignite the potential for future collaborations with other research groups within the institute.
The lecture format consists of a 30-minute colloquium-style presentation, thoughtfully tailored to be accessible to postdoctoral scholars and researchers from diverse disciplines within the institute. Following the presentation, a 15-minute discussion session is anticipated, involving active participation from postdocs representing various fields.
It is mandatory for all postdocs at the institute to actively participate in this event. The enthusiastic involvement of faculty members is greatly valued and will prove mutually beneficial for both the speaker and the junior audience.
