Qiaolin Deng obtained her Ph.D degree in developmental and stem cell biology at Karolinska Institutet in 2010. During 2011-2014, she received the fellowship from Swedish Medical Research Council and joined Prof. Rickard Sandberg’s lab at Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research involving in developing Smart-seq & Smart-seq2 single-cell RNA-seq technology. Her postdoctoral work pioneered in single-cell analysis of preimplantation development in mouse and human and first identified random monoallelic gene expression of autosomal genes.From 2015, Qiaolin established her independent research group and currently holds the Associate Professor position at Dept. Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet and is also affiliated to Center for Molecular Medicine at Karolinska University Hospital. Her research is focused on understanding gene regulation of pluripotency transition, germ cell fate specification, as well as dynamics of X-chromosome activity. Moreover, her lab is interested in epigenetic transmission of disease risk by the germline and developmental programing. Her lab is funded by prestigious grants from Swedish Society for Medical Research, Swedish Medical Research Council, Wallenberg Foundation in Medicine among others. Besides, Qiaolin has also served as the reviewer in research council of several countries including Sweden, the Netherlands, UK and Israel as well as European Research Council.