About me
Qiaolin Deng has obtained her professional training in the fields of developmental neurobiology, stem cell biology and single-cell technology to understand the molecular mechanisms in cell fate specification and transcriptional regulation during embryonic development. Her lab is established in 2015 funded by Young Investigator grants from several funding agencies including the Swedish Society for Medical Research, Swedish Medical Research Council, and Karolinska Institutet Faculty Fund.
Wallenberg Academy Fellow with prolongation (5y+5y) (https://kaw.wallenberg.org/en/qiaolin-deng & https://kaw.wallenberg.org/en/wallenberg-academy-fellows-prolongation-g…)
VR consolidator grant (https://news.ki.se/qiaolin-deng-receives-karolinska-institutets-consoli…)
Board Member of StratRegen (https://ki.se/en/research/about-stratregen)
Research description
My lab is interested in understanding the developmental principles of the germline in health and disease. Moreover, we focus on how the parental effects are transmitted via developmental programming and germline moderation to future offspring, a process known as epigenetic inheritance. High-throughput sequencing, stem cell differentiation modeling, 3D organoid culture, and transgenic mouse models are our frequently used tools among others.
More information at www.thedenglab.org & https://ki.se/en/fyfa/germ-cell-biology-developmental-programming-and-e…
Publications @ Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=M7UWzN4AAAAJ&hl=en
Teaching portfolio
- Scientific organizer of the EMBO practical course on “Single Cell Omics” Heidelberg, Germany 2014-2019 & 2022
- Biomedicine undergraduate program, Advanced physiology, Karolinska Institutet, 2020-now
- Biomedical engineering and Health system program, Advanced physiology, Royal Institute of Technology, 2020-now
- Medical program, BV5 endocrinology and reproduction, Karolinska Institutet, 2021-now
- Lecturer of doctoral course “Clinical achievements of reproductive medicine”, 2019, 2021, 2022
- Lecturer of doctoral course “Endothelial Cell Function and its Relevance in Cardiovascular Disease” 2020
- Lecturer of Master Program courses “Frontier in translational science”, 2018-2020
- Lecturer of Developmental Biology for Regenerative Medicine (DBRM) research school, 2015-2016
- Organizer and lecturer of doctoral courses: “DNA sequencing and bioinformatic analysis” 9-13 May 2016, “From germ cell to neuronal cell 12-16 September 2016
Education
2001 Bachelor in Medicine, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, China
2010 Ph.D in Medical Science, Dept. Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet
2019 Docent in developmental biology
Academic honours, awards and prizes
- 2011 Swedish Medical Research Council for postdoc employment in Sweden
- 2015 Swedish Medical Research Council, establishing grant for young investigator
- 2015 Swedish Society for Medical Research (SSMF), establishing grant for young investigator (Stora Anslag)
- 2015 Karolinska Institutet Faculty Funded Assistant Professorship
- 2015 Doctoral funding for recruiting doctoral student, Karolinska Institutet
- 2016 Jansson's Stiftelser
- 2016 Åke Wiberg Foundation
- 2017 Karolinska Institutet Research Foundation of Young Investigator grant
- 2018 Åke Wiberg Foundation
- 2018 Nicholson Scholar, Nicholson Exchange Program, Karolinska Institutet-Rockefeller University
- 2019 Swedish Medical Research Council for the project grant
- 2019 Karolinska Institutet Faculty Funded Senior Researcher
- 2019 Wallenberg Academy Fellow in Medicine
- 2020 Birgitta och Carl-Axel Rydbeck’s donation for pediatric research
- 2020 SFO StratRegen Infrastructure grant for stem cell research
- 2020 Consolidator grant, Karolinska Institutet
- 2020 Consolidator grant, Swedish Medical Research Council
- 2021 Strategic research area in stem cells and regeneration, Junior grant