Yinjie Qiu, PhD

RI Bioinformatics APG Analyst

Expertise

  • Gene expression profiling
  • Single cell gene expression profiling
  • SNP calling
  • Structural variants calling
  • Pan-genomics 
     

Education

  • Post-doc, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota
  • Ph.D., Applied Plant Science, Department of Horticultural Science, University of Minnesota
  • M.S., Molecular Biology, Department of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University
  • B.A. Agronomy, Sichuan Agricultural University 

Bio

Yinjie is a bioinformatics analyst in the Research Informatics (RI) division of MSI. He supports research projects for the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics (APG). Yinjie's graduate training focused on the molecular biology, plant transcriptomics, and comparative genomics. During his post-doc training, Yinjie focused on structural variation, transpoable element, and pan-genomics. He developed computational skills to analyze different types of NGS data, PacBio long reads data, and single cell genomics.