Highlander Lab

Yiming Ma

Visiting MSc student

Research at the Highlander Lab

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I am working on quantitative genetics and breeding of insects for feed and food.

Goals:

  • Analyse the difference between black soldier fly strains
  • Find out the mating model of black soldier fly.

Background

I am a masters student in bioinformatics at the University of Edinburgh. The majority of my programme is genome sequencing. I graduated from Nanjing Agriculture University in 2022 and my major was biological science.

I am specifically interested in:

  • genome sequencing       
  • popular science

Programming language and software:

  • R & RStudio                         
  • Python

Hobbies and personal interests

I love sports, especially basketball, which is addictive.

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