First person – Yao Xiao

doi:10.1242/bio.059099

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ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Yao Xiao is first author on ‘ Regulation of NANOG and SOX2 expression by activin A and a canonical WNT agonist in bovine embryonic stem cells and blastocysts’, published in BiO. Yao conducted the research described in this article while a postdoc in Peter J. Hansen's lab at Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville Florida, USA. He is now an associate professor in the lab of Jinming Huang at Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Disease Control and Breeding, at the Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China, investigating regulation of cell potency in cattle.

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First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers
I am an associate professor and collaborate with a group of young scientists leading by Dr Jinming Huang at Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Our goal is to genetically improve the performance of dairy cattle by using various biotechnologies including genome selection, gene editing and advanced reproductive tools

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“Our goal is to genetically improve the performance of dairy cattle by using various biotechnologies including genome selection, gene editing and advanced reproductive tools.”. First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Yao Xiao is first author on ‘Regulation of NANOG and SOX2 expression by activin A and a canonical WNT agonist in bovine embryonic stem cells and blastocysts’, published in BiO.

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