Kaixiong (Calvin) Ye, Ph.D., Assistant Professor 
Department of Genetics | Institute of Bioinformatics
University of Georgia 

Seminar Topic: Gene-Environment Interactions in Human Complex Traits  

Kaixiong received his Bachelor's degree in Biology from Wuhan University. He worked briefly at the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) as a bioinformatician before he joined graduate school at Cornell University, where he earned his Ph.D. degree in Nutritional Genomics. He received his postdoctoral training in Computational Biology, also at Cornell University. Kaixiong started his own research group at UGA in 2018. Kaixiong's research has been driven by his curiosity of the evolution and diversity of life, and by his passion for improving human health. The Ye lab works on Nutritional Genetics. They aim to identify genetic variants that make each one of us unique in our nutritional requirements and risks of metabolic diseases.