👋 Hi, I’m Ying Chen.

👩‍💻 I am a bioinformatician at the Vertebrate Genome Lab at Rockefeller University.

🎓 I obtained my PhD in Biology from Queen’s University in Canada.

🧬 I specialize in genome assembly, including high-quality chromosome-level VGP genomes and telomere-to-telomere (T2T) genomes.

🌊 My work spans population genomics, comparative genomics, conservation genomics and environmental DNA.