Summary
Renmao Tian is a postdoctoral research associate specializing in microbial genomics, metagenomics, and host–microbe interactions with nine years of experience spanning environments from coastal waters to the Mariana Trench. He combines wet-lab expertise (FISH, Illumina and Oxford Nanopore sequencing) with advanced bioinformatics—developing automated pipelines for amplicon, genome and metagenome analysis and performing genome-resolved binning and methylation analysis. Author of eight first-author papers (average IF ~5) and ~600 citations by 2019, he has a strong track record of discovering novel microbial lineages and probing microbial function and evolution. Equally comfortable on HPC clusters (SLURM/PBS, MPI) and in Python/R, he also applies hybrid long-read assemblies to finish genomes and explore animal–microbiome systems such as plastic-digesting mealworms. Based in Norman, Oklahoma, he brings a rare blend of field sampling, experimental microbiology, and production-ready computational tooling to environmental and host-associated microbiome research.
9 years of coding experience
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)