Dr. Xiao-Tao Jiang
Dr. Xiao-Tao Jiang leads the bioinformatics unit at the MRC. He obtained his PhD in 2017 at the University of Hong Kong by studying the microbiome of activated sludge within a large-scale metagenomics cohort. He developed the antibiotic resistant genes analyzing bioinformatics platform ARGs-OAP1.0/2.0 for multi-metagenomics samples to fight antimicrobial resistance. He has extensive experience in next-generation data analysis, bioinformatics and industrial experience at China’s BGI the world’s largest genome sequencing centre. His current research interest lies in using multi-omic technologies and bioinformatics algorithms to study the role of the microbiome in human disease.