• Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, U.S.A. 2024
Invited talk, “Temporal and Spatial Regulation of Metabolism and Stress Responses”
• Rising Stars Symposium, University of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A. 2023
Invited talk, “Temporal and Spatial Regulation of Metabolism in Physiology and Diseases”
• The Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, U.S.A. 2023
Invited talk, “Temporal and Spatial Regulation of Transcriptional and Metabolic Activity”
• The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Nutritional Sciences, Wisconsin. 2022
Invited talk, “Mammalian 12-hour transcriptional regulation of lipid metabolism”
• Gulf Coast Center for Precision Environmental Health, Texas, U.S.A. 2021
Award winners selected talk, “Effects of arsenic exposure on 12-hour clock and NAFLD”
• Children's Nutrition Research Center, Nutrition and Obesity Workshop, Texas, U.S.A. 2019
Invited talk, “Metabolic and ER stress rhythms in metabolic syndrome and cancer”
• Special Seminar in transcription and metabolism, Baylor College of Medicine, U.S.A. 2018
Invited talk, “Transcriptional enhancers in chromatin looping”
• Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, China Medical University, China 2015
Invited talk, “DNA methylation, its mediators and genome integrity”
• MOE Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, Model Animal Research Center, Nanjing Biomedical Research Institute, Nanjing University, China
Invited talk, “Active DNA demethylation and mitochondrial oxidative metabolism” 2014
• John Inglis award talk in MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh, U.K.
Award winners selected talk, “Apoptosis and DNA methylation” 2010
Pilot Project Award, Gulf Coast Center for Precision Environmental Health, TX, U.S.A. 2021-2022
The UT MD Anderson Cancer Center NGS CPRIT Pilot Project Award, TX, U.S.A. 2019-2021
British Government Overseas Research Award, University of Edinburgh, U.K. 2008-2011
John Inglis Award in MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh, U.K. 2009-2010
College of Medicine Scholarship, University of Edinburgh, U.K. 2006-2012
China Master’s Scholarship (AI and Bioinformatics), University of Edinburgh, U.K. 2004-2005
Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society 2021-Present
Member, The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD)
Reviewer, Nucleic Acids Research; Cell Reports; Molecular Cell; BMC Cancer