Qingru Xu was a Research Associate in Dong lab (BWH and Yale). She has a Master’s degree in Computational Biology and Quantitative Genetics from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a Bachelor’s degree of Science in Bioinformatics with honors from Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University & University of Liverpool. In Dong lab, she studied polyadenylation in Parkinson’s brain at single-cell level. She is now a PhD student at UCLA.