Dr. Zemin Ning is a Senior Scientific Manager and heads the group of "High Performance Assembly" at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK. Trained in Engineering/Physics, he has been active in genome informatics, specializing in the sequence alignment and genome assembly. He obtained his BSc and MSc degrees in Engineering in China before heading to the UK for further education. After completing a Ph.D. degree at Aston University and postdoc training at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, he joined in the Sanger Institute in 1999 to pursue bioinformatics research. Over the past years, he and his colleagues in the group have developed a number of bioinformatics tools, which are widely appreciated by the genomics community. The group has also produced over 30 de novo assemblies from a large animal and plant genomes, including Gorilla, Zebrafish, Tasmanian Devil, Panda, and Bamboo.
Genome Informatics – sequence alignment and genome assembly
Sequencing Technology – 2nd and 3rd generation sequencing platform evaluation
Genome analysis – genome sequencing and annotation
Bioinformatics in genomics and genome technology
Clinical genetic testing
Adjunct Professor, School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, PR China, 2011-now.
Visiting Professor, National Centre for Gene Research, Shanghai Institutes for, Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, PR China, 2010-now.
Member of 1000genome Project Structural Variation Subgroup
Member of The International Cancer Genome Consortium
China Agricultural University, China
Institute of Chinese Medicine, China
Xian Jiaotong University, China
York University, UK
Genomics Proteomics and Bioinformatics 2016 –
PeerJ 2017-
Programme Committee member: ECCB 2013, 2014, 2016 European Conference on Computational Biology
Programme Committee member: AlCoB 2015, 2016 2017 Algorithms for Computational Biology
Advisory Board: 4th Next Generation Sequencing Conference (June 19-20, 2014, San Diego, CA) Organised by GTCbio
Advisory Board: 5Th Next Generation Sequencing Conference (May 21-22, 2015, Boston, MA) Organised by GTCbio: 2nd Next Generation Sequencing Data Congress (19-20 May 2014, London, UK) Organised by Oxford Global
Advisory Board: 3rd Annual NGS Data Congress (June 2015, Central London) by Oxford Global