Xiaoying Fan is a principle investigator from Guangzhou Laboratory. She got the PhD degree from Peking University in 2017. She carried out the postdoctoral work at the School of Life Sciences, Peking University. She has been engaged in the research of single-cell omics sequencing, from developing technology to applying single-cell sequencing technology to analyze cell maps and molecular regulatory networks in different developmental systems and diseases. She has published 12 SCI papers as the first author (including co-author) and corresponding author in high-level international journals, including Nature, Cell, Cell Research, Genome biology, Science advances, Cell Discovery, etc. She has received support from the China Postdoctoral Fund, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Stem Cell Key Research Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Pearl River Talent (Youth) Program of Guangdong Province.