Dr. Chen Zhong received BMedSc from Peking University in 2003 and PhD from National University of Singapore in 2010. He studied the formation of male gametophytes in flowering plants at Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory during his Ph.D. After that he received EMBO long-term fellowship (ALTF 798-2009) to conduct postdoctoral research on regulatory mechanism and modeling of stem cell niche at Utrecht University, the Netherlands from 2010-2012. He came back to Singapore in 2012 and joined Department of Biological Sciences / Centre for BioImaging Sciences, National University of Singapore, working on developmental and regenerative biology. Currently Dr. Chen Zhong is an Assistant Professor at NSSE, NIE/NTU, and a Principal Investigator of Molecular Genetics Lab.