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Prof. Dr. Linjie Wang

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College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
Interests: molecular and cellular basis of some important economic traits of sheep and goats; identify the functional genes and regulatory elements for the meat quality, muscle development and adipose deposition in sheep and goats
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Prof. Dr. Pengxia Wang

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School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
Interests: genetics; molecular biology; adaptation and evolution; mobile genetic elements
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Dr. Ruihong Wang

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Thoracic Surgery Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Interests: mammalian genetics; Sirt1; diabetes; digestive diseases; kidney diseases

Dr. Xia Wang

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College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
Interests: genetic breeding; bioinformatics; omics technologies; animal growth and disease resistance

Prof. Dr. Malgorzata Wasniewska

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Department of Human Pathology of Adult- and Childhood, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
Interests: pediatric endocrinology; autoimmune diseases
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Dr. Jason P. Weick

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Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Interests: CNS development; synaptogenesis; cortical patterning; pluripotent stem cells; synaptic plasticity; human cerebral organoids

Dr. Daniel J. Weisenberger

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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
Interests: DNA methylation; epigenetics; CIMP; gene regulation; chromatin; cancer

Prof. Dr. Lisa Wiesmüller

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Division of Gynecological Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the University of Ulm, Prittwitzstrasse 43, 89075 Ulm, Germany
Interests: DNA repair; recombination and replication; DNA damage response (DDR); DNA tolerance mechanisms; biomarkers and therapeutic strategies targeting DDR factors
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Prof. Dr. Derek Wildman

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Genomics Program, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
Interests: evolution; genomics; phylogenetics; health & disease; epigenetics

Prof. Dr. Brian T. Wilhelm

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Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada
Interests: pediatric leukemia; functional genomics; NGS methods; RNA-seq; epigenetics

Prof. Dr. Graham Williams

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Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Interests: epigenetics; microRNA; body fluids; forensic genetics

Dr. Hywel Williams

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School of Medicine, Division of Cancer and Genetics, Genetic and Genomic Medicine, Cardiff University, Sir Geraint Evans Building Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK
Interests: genomic medicine; rare disease; gene regulation; non-coding genome; transcriptomics; clinical diagnosis; gene discovery and 3D genome

Prof. Dr. Colin E. Willoughby

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Genomic Medicine Group, Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Ulster University, Coleraine BT52 1SA, Northern Ireland, UK
Interests: microRNAs; ophthalmology; glaucoma; trabecular meshwork; fibrosis; oxidative stress; mitochondria; TGFβ; gene therapy
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Dr. Aliza P. Wingo

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Department of Psychiatry, Emory University School of Medicine, 201 Dowman Dr, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Interests: genetics; transcriptomics; microRNAs; proteomics; depression; Alzheimer's disease dementia; resilience; psychological well-being

Dr. Maciej Wnuk

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Faculty of Biotechnology, Collegium Medicum, University of Rzeszow, 1 Pigonia St., 35-310 Rzeszów, Poland
Interests: molecular genetics; cancer biology; cell culture; cellular senescence; genomic instability; genetics; theranostics
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Dr. Hyejung Won

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Department of Genetics and Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Interests: 3D genomics; GWAS; non-coding variants; psychiatric genetics
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Dr. Marc Woodbury-Smith

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Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, UK
Interests: genetics of autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

Dr. Liwen Wu

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Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Hangzhou, China
Interests: oak; genetic breeding; secondary metabolism; transcription factor; regulatory mechanism
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Prof. Dr. Fang Xiao

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Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, China
Interests: health risks and toxicity mechanisms of emerging environmental pollutants

Dr. Zhousheng Xiao

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Division of Med Nephrology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine Memphis, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38103, USA
Interests: bone biology; mouse genetics; polycystins; TAZ; Runx2; FGF23
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Prof. Dr. Shengsong Xie

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College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: gene editing breeding; CRISPR-based diagnostic; bioinformatics; functional genomics; pig
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Prof. Dr. Jianping Xu

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Department of Biology, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Interests: microbiology; mycology; population genetics and genomics; infectious disease epidemiology; molecular ecology
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Prof. Dr. Wenteng Xu

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Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences (CAFS), Qingdao 266071, China
Interests: sex determination; sex differentiation; sex reversal; spermatogenesis; post-translational modification
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Prof. Dr. Lei Xue

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School of Life Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Interests: cell proliferation; migration; apoptosis; tumorigenesis; tumor invasion
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Prof. Dr. Qing Yang

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College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: gene cloning; gene function; gene expression regulation; gene transfer; functional genomics; anthocyanin metabolism; tuber formation regulation; stress biology; potato; eggplant; cruciferous plants
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Prof. Dr. Rendong Yang

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The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Austin, MN 55912, USA
Interests: bioinformatics; genomics; RNA splicing; structural variation; cancer; machine Learning and algorithms

Prof. Dr. Runjun Yang

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College of Animal Science, Jilin University, 5333 Xi’an Road, Changchun 130062, China
Interests: animal genetics, breeding, and reproduction; cattle breeding; functional genomics; beef cattle germplasm resources and economic traits; farm animals; economic traits; omics technology
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Prof. Dr. Xia Yang

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Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Interests: integrative multiomics; systems biology; complex diseases; cardiometabolic diseases; brain disorders
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Dr. Xiaoxu Yang

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Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Interests: genomic mosaicism; diseases; cancer
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Prof. Dr. Yun-Gui Yang

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Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: RNA modification; RNA methylation; m6A; m5C; m7G

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