Foodborne Parasites Research Laboratory

Academic leader: Dean Liu Mingyuan

Team members: Professor Wang Xuelin, Associate Professor Liu Xiaolei, Associate Professor Li Yang, Lecturer Yang Yong, Lecturer Tang Bin, Postdoctoral Teacher Ding Jing

Over the past 40 years, we have carried out systematic studies on Trichinella species, pathology, antigenomics at different developmental stages, pathogenic mechanisms, worm-host interaction, transcriptome, and genomics. In 2014, with this laboratory as a platform, OIE Collaborating Center for Food-borne Parasites in the Asia-Pacific Region and a central coordination storage base for major foodborne parasites in the Asia-Pacific region were established. Research on many new detection methods for food-borne parasitic diseases and the establishment of standard diagnostic methods has been carried out, and the development of 9 technologies including Using Cryptosporidium parvum cDNA display library to screen and screen the functional genes of Cryptosporidium parvum has been completed. The research laboratory currently has 1 winner of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, 1 distinguished professor of national Thousand Talents Program, 1 leading talent of national Ten Thousand Talents Program, and 1 national candidate for the New Century Talent Project. There are 2 winners of New Century Talents of the Ministry of Education, 4 members of the International Trichinellosis Committee, and 1 member of the Executive Committee. The research laboratory has published more than 300 research papers, including more than 120 SCI papers. It presided over more than 50 fund projects including National Outstanding Youth Fund, National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China International Exchange and Cooperation, National Key Research and Development Program, 863 Program, 973 Program and national major special projects. The total funding amounts to more than 50 million RMB. It has great influence in the corresponding research field at home and abroad. In 2007, the research office successfully bid to host the 13th International Conference on Trichinellosis. More than 30 doctors and 120 masters graduated from here and now work at well-known domestic and overseas research institutions.