Mr Youwen (owen) Qin
PhD student
Systems Genomics
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
Australia
Biography
Owen finished his MPhil on Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics in 2015 from the University of Hong Kong with the supervision of Prof Pak Chung Sham and Prof Karen SL Lam. He studied and worked at Beijing Genomics Institute, Shenzhen for 4.5 years since 2010 when he was the final year undergraduate student at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Owen's previous research was on the human gut microbiome, including several metagenome-wide association studies on complex diseases, including type 2 diabetes, colorectal cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and gastric cancer. Owen is now conducting a PhD in functional and population genomics with the supervision of Dr Michael Inouye and Kathryn Holt.
Research Interest
Systems Genomics
Publications
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Youwen (Owen) Qin,Metagenomic analysis of fecal microbiome as a tool towards identification of targeted non-invasive biomarkers for colorectal cancer Gut 2015.
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Youwen (Owen) Qin,Metagenomic sequencing of the human gut microbiome before and after bariatric surgery in obese patients with type 2 diabetes: correlation with inflammatory and metabolic parameters The Pharmacogenomics Journal 2013.
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Youwen (Owen) Qin,A metagenome-wide association study of gut microbiota in type 2 diabetes Nature 2012.
