Wenbin Du's Biography

Wenbin Du, Professor, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, CAS

Wenbin Du received his Ph. D. in Chemistry from Zhejiang University in 2007, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago from 2007 to 2011. He became a research fellow in the Department of Chemistry at Renmin University of China in 2011, before joining the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2013. His research lab is specialized in microfluidics and microbiology applications. Recent efforts have been focused on using microfluidic droplets for high-throughput culturing and screening of single cells in nanoliter to picoliter volumes, and development of automated workflows and devices for large scale single-cell isolation, cultivation, interaction and sequencing.