Biography
Ding Wanqiu is the Director of Bioinformatics at the College of Future Technology, Peking University. She received her Bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics from the School of Life Science and Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2015, her Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine from Peking University in 2020, and conducted postdoctoral research at the College of Future Technology, Peking University from 2020 to 2022. Since 2022, she has served as the Director of Bioinformatics at the College of Future Technology. She utilizes bioinformatics, comparative genomics, and evolutionary biology theories to establish a rich resource of rhesus monkey genomics, addressing fundamental scientific questions about human nature. She collaborates on single-cell and spatial multi-omics applications, providing new perspectives for analyzing cell-to-cell communication regulation. As (co-)first author or corresponding author, she has published papers in international journals such as Science Advances, Nucleic Acids Research, and Genome Biology.
Representative Achievement
1.Wanqiu Ding*, Xiangshang Li*, Jie Zhang*, Mingjun Ji*, Mengling Zhang, Xiaoming Zhong, Chunqiong Li, Xiaoge Liu, Chunfu Xiao, Ting Li, Qing Yu, Fan Mo, Jianhuan Qi, Jie-Chun Yang, Jiaxin Wang, Boya Zhang, Juntian Qi, Lu Tian, Xinwei Xu, Qi Peng, Wei-Zhen Zhou, Zhijin Liu, Aisi Fu, Ni A. An, Xiuqing Zhang, Jian-Jun Zhang, Baoyang Hu, Yujie Sun, Li Zhang#, and Chuan-Yun Li#, Adaptive functions of structural variants in human brain development,Science Advances, 2024.
2.Xiangshang Li*, Chunfu Xiao*, Juntian Qi*, Weizhen Xue, Xinwei Xu, Zelin Mu, Jie Zhang, Chuan-Yun Li# and Wanqiu Ding#, STellaris: a web server for accurate spatial mapping of single cells based on spatial transcriptomics data, Nucleic Acids Research, 2023.
3.Ni A. An*, Wanqiu Ding*, Xin-Zhuang Yang*, Jiguang Peng, Bin Z. He, Qing Sunny Shen, Fujian Lu, Aibin He, Yong E. Zhang, Bertrand Chin-Ming Tan, Jia-Yu Chen# and Chuan-Yun Li#. Evolutionarily significant A-to-I RNA editing events originated through G-to-A mutations in primates. Genome Biology. 2019.
