Dr. Yuling Jiao earned his B.S. degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Peking University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University under the guidance of Prof. Xing-Wang Deng. He was awarded Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad and John Spangler Nicholas Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Candidate in Biology for his thesis work. As a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology in the laboratory of Prof. Elliot Meyerowitz, he developed new techniques for cell type-specific transcriptome profiling. In 2010 he became a Group Leader at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology. He switched his research interest to shoot morphogenesis, and more recently plant synthetic genomics. Since 2020, he has been an Adjunct Professor at SIAT. Dr. Jiao has been supported by the National Program for Support of Top-Notch Young Professionals, the National High-level Personnel of Special Support Program, the NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund, the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and the Newton Advanced Fellowship from the Royal Society. He received the VCANBIO Award for Innovations and Breakthroughs in Life Sciences and Medicine, and CSCB Distinguished Young Scientist Award. He has served as the Country Representative at the Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee, and as President of the Chinese Society for Plant Organogenesis.

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