Invited by Institute of life sciences,associate professor Xin Bi line two , from University of Rochester, did an exchange visit to our school on Dec. 6th and gave an academic report entitled " Mechanisms of the establishment and maintenance of heterochromatin in the budding yeast ". The report was chaired by professor Keping Chen in the meeting room 604 of Institute of life sciences and more than sixty people including teachers and postgraduates from relevant school also attended the meeting. Associate professor Bi Xin answered all questions one by one after the meeting ,and won everyone''s a round of applause.

Associate professor Bi, be PHD in John Hopkins university school of medicine of biochemistry from 1989 to 1994. He did postdoctoral research in Princeton University Department of molecular biology after graduating, worked in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska and Department of Biology , University of Rochester as assistant Professor from 2000 to 2007.Since 2007, and he was appointed Associate Professor in Department of Biology, University of Rochester.

Associate professor Bi lived overseas for more than 20 years, obtained the 1996-1998 American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellowship.He published more than 20 articles in Genes Dev Proc, Natl. Acad. Sci. SCI papers as the first author(Corresponding author), the total impact factor is above 160,one of which "UASrpg can function as a heterochromatin boundary element in yeast” published in Genes Dev in 1999 whose impact factor is above 19.He served as "molecular and cell biology", "molecular biology", "genetic", "the Journal of Biological Chemistry", "PloS ONE" , "molecular microbiology", "the Journal of gene medicine", "FEMS yeast", "BBA gene regulation mechanisms" and other technology publications reviewer, he also served as the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) MGB fund invited members of evaluation group, NIH aging Research Special Fund assessment team members, the U.S. National Science Foundation Fund, (USA) Foundation for review of women scientists NIH ZRG1 F05-C20 L cell biology and developmental biology scholarship group member, NIH ZRG1 F05-C20 L Stage 1 scholarship evaluation group member, the Israel Science Foundation of the Assessment,and the National Natural Science Foundation of China fund assessment.