Hi, this is Yihan! I received my bachelor's degree in biology from Northwest A&F University. When I was a junior student, I came to BGI-Shenzhen and joined the Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Unknown Pathogen Identification lab. In BGI, I have spent two years working on virus-related spatial transcriptomics data, single-cell RNA sequencing data, and genome variation data. In my spare time, I also like hiking, going to concerts, and sleeping.

In the stage of my Ph.D,  I will work on identifying cell-type specific QTLs in type-2 diabetes using multi-omics data and will also like to learn statistics and machine learning.

Publications:

 1. Yihan Tong. The Comparison of Limma and DESeq2 in Gene Analysis | 2021 3rd International Conference on Biotechnology and Biomedicine (ICBB 2021)

2. Ou, Z., Lin, S., Qiu, J., Ding, W., Ren, P., Chen, D., Wang, J., Tong, Y., Wu, D., Chen, A. and Deng, Y., "Single-nucleus RNA Sequencing and Spatial Transcriptomics Reveal the Immunological Microenvironment of Cervical Squamous Cell Carcinoma" (Research Article. No.advs.202203040R1)  Advanced Science | First published: 19 August 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202203040

3. Yanxia Chen., Wenchen Song., Can Li., Jiaxuan Wang., Feifei Liu., Zhanhong Ye, Peidi Ren., Yihan Tong., Junhua Li., Zhihua Ou., COVID-19 mRNA vaccine protects against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 infection in diet-induced obesity mice through boosting host innate antiviral responses (Reference Number: NCOMMS-22-37772) | Nature Communications (submitted)