Topic:From big data to culturomics: towardtowards the establishment of a causal relationship between swine gut microbiota and animal production

  Speaker: associateAssociate Professor Zhao Jiangchao, Department of Animal Science, University of Arkansas, USA.

  Time: 9:00, Thursday, January 6, 2022.

  Venue: conference room, first floor, College of Animal Sciences.

  Introduction of the keynote speaker:

  He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Animal Science at the University of Arkansas. He received a bachelor's degree in plant protection (1998) and a master's degree in plant pathology (2001) from China Agricultural University, a master's degree in bioinformatics (2004) and a doctorate in environmental microbiology (2009) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 2009 to 2015, he studied the relationship between thepulmonary microbiome and cystic fibrosis at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. Worked at the University of Arkansas in 2015.

His current research focuses on the role of themicrobiome in human and animal health and disease. He uses interdisciplinary techniques such as metagenomics, environmental transcriptome, metabonomics, bioinformatics, statistics and big data analysis to study the relationship between gastrointestinal and respiratory microbiome and human and animal health, and the relationship between probiotics and probiotics and human and animal health. As first author or correspondent author, he has published many influential papers in famous journals such as PNAS, CurrentBiology, Microbiome and GutMicrobes. He serves as the editorial board of Microbiome, AnimalMicrobiome, AppliedandEnvironmentalMicrobiology, JournalofClinicalMicrobiologyApplied and Environmental Microbiology, Journal of Clinical Microbiology and other magazines. The host / corehost/corebackbone participated in more than 20 scientific research projects, such as theUSDA,and Wal-Mart Foundation, etc.,with a total expenditure of more than 5.6 million US dollars. It has obtained 3 US patents.

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