On the afternoon of November 8, 2021, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee announced the appointment and dismissal decisions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council at Fudan University, and Jin Li was appointed as the president of Fudan University (vice minister level).
From the official website of Fudan University, you can query his resume ——
Jin Li, male, born in March 1963, a member of the Communist Party of China, returned to China in June 2003 to work, graduated from the University of Texas with a doctorate degree in biomedicine and human molecular genetics, professor, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was appointed Vice President of Fudan University in June 2007 and Executive Vice President of Fudan University in December 2019.
In addition to the resume, what is the new president of Fudan University?
["Mr. Tan slept there and rested, I was very touched to see it at that time"]
"I didn't expect that Mr. Jin Li would be so emotional, and it took a lot of time to calm down during the interview." Before the Qingming Festival in 2017, Liu Xiaolin, then a student of radio and television journalism at Fudan University, participated in interviews with a number of professors and listened to their stories about their mentors buried in their hearts.
Remembering Mr. Jiazhen, Jin Li blushed
"Mr. Tan Jiazhen came to stanford University to talk to me about why he wanted to return to China, and after eating in the canteen, I took Mr. Tan to the student lounge, where there were benches, and Mr. Tan slept there to rest. Jin Li, who has made great achievements in the field of genetics, has choked up when he says this, "I am very touched. ”
Jin Li is an 81-level genetics student at Fudan University, and his supervisor is Liu Zudong, who is also a student of Tan Jiazhen, the founder of modern Chinese genetics.
In 1994, the 86-year-old Tan Jiazhen took a long-distance flight for more than ten hours, found Jin Li, who had just done postdoctoral work at Stanford University, and sincerely invited him to return to China after completing his studies.
In 1997, Jin Li was hired as an adjunct professor at the School of Life Sciences of Fudan University. Later, he returned to Fudan University full-time and became the leader of the genetics discipline.
Is there anything I would like to say to my mentor? "What I want to say most is, Mr. Tan, we work very hard." In front of the interview camera, after saying this sentence, Jin Li choked up and his eyes were red.
【As the first person to complete, he won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award twice】
As a scientist, Jin Li is definitely considered "high yield". As the first finisher, he has won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award twice.
If genes are considered the "source code" of life, the "exon" is the "core code" in the source code, but it is little known. In August this year, the international authoritative academic journal "Journal of Genetics and Genomics" published the research paper of Jin Li's team online. The study sequenced genomes of 5,000 individuals from three representative Han ethnic groups in North China (Zhengzhou), East China (Taizhou) and South China (Nanning), and initially established a database containing a total of 2.07 million genetic variants, of which 46.4% of the genetic variants were discovered for the first time.
More than 400 East Asian languages, including Chinese, Tibetan, Qiang, and Burmese, are believed to share a common ancestral language. All along, both academics and folk have been curious, where did the Sino-Tibetan language family originate? Jin Li's team used cross-analysis methods such as linguistics and genetics to give the answer: Northern China. In April 2019, the paper was published online in Nature, which is the first time that the research of Chinese and Chinese linguistics has been published in this journal.
One pair of human cells is a sex chromosome, and the male-specific y chromosome is transmitted from the father, but the y chromosome is not exactly the same because it mutates about once every 4 generations. Scholars from many countries participated in the study of Y chromosome mutations, and in November 2000, they published an article that was hailed as "epic", and Jin Li was one of the 21 authors.
On January 18, 2021, the Shanghai International Human Phenotypic Research Institute and Springer Nature's international journal "Phenotymy" was launched. 27 scientists from 14 countries around the world jointly formed an international editorial board team, with Jin Li as the editor-in-chief. Just before that, the "International Human Phenotype Group Program (Phase I)" led by Fudan University was launched in Shanghai, and for the first time an advanced human phenomics research platform was established internationally, and Jin Li served as the chief scientist of this international big science program.
"How a hypothesis becomes a hypothesis to be tested is a watershed for scientists to excel or mediocre"]
As an education administrator, Jinli has its own distinctive characteristics.
On September 2, 2017, the Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, which had only 19 doctoral students at the time, opened its doors. Shi Yigong, then president of the West Lake Institute of Advanced Studies, especially thanked Fudan University, which became a "warm rear" when the school needed support the most. These 19 doctoral students were jointly trained by the Westlake Institute for Advanced Study and Fudan University.
Jin Li, then vice president of Fudan University, said at the opening ceremony that when he came to the West Lake Institute of Advanced Studies, he needed to think about two questions - who am I? What am I going to do? His answer was to aspire to be a scientist. Not only to do experiments and write articles, but also to propose good scientific hypotheses and test hypotheses. When Jin Li was a graduate student, he had a special notebook to record various fantastic ideas. He inspired the students present: "How a hypothesis becomes a hypothesis to be tested is the watershed that determines the brilliance or mediocrity of a scientist. What you have to do in your life is to make your assumptions testable. ”
"As one of the representative forces of humanities in Chinese universities, Fudan will continue to plant the soil of basic humanities research and continue to support unpopular research." In August this year, the 14th Five-Year Plan for The Development of Education in Shanghai was released. What will Fudan University do? Jin Li wrote an article expounding that it is necessary to accurately grasp the dialectical relationship between "first-class cities" and "first-class universities".
In Jinli's view, "first-class city" is the foundation and support of "first-class university", the higher the city energy level, the more the university can gather talents and resources, the more it can get the support of the city's strong economic foundation and cultural soft power; "first-class university" is the source of innovation for "first-class city", the stronger the university, the more dynamic and influential the city, the more it can get the continuous transportation of first-class talents, science and technology, and culture; the common foothold of "first-class city" and "first-class university" is to serve the national strategy, reflecting the common mission of the city and the university.
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Source: Author: Huang Haihua