Dr Fei He

Mechanism of distant hybrid – how introgression becomes part of wheat.

Fei’s group is focused on studying the hidden process behind breeders’ choice, including the process of yield improvement, the process of disease resistance breeding, as well as the coevolution between wheat and its pathogen. The focus of his research is how wild relative introgression contributes to wheat breeding improvement.

Fei He obtained his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics in 2011 from the China Agricultural University. After postdoc training at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Brookhaven National Lab and Kansas State University from 2011 to 2021, he joined the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology as a Group Leader. He was trained in wheat genomics by identification of wild relative introgression using high-density SNP and then he worked on using eQTL to understand the expression regulation in the polyploidy genome. In 2022, Fei He became a CEPAMS group leader.