Dr. Xiaoxu Yang is an assistant professor at the Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah. Dr. Yang received his BS in bioscience with honors at Beijing Normal University, completed his PhD studies in bioinformatics with honors at Peking University, and completed postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Yang received the NIH Pathway to Independence Award. He has published corresponding and/or first-author papers in Cell, Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Genetics, and many prestigious journals. Dr. Yang serves as a member of the Utah Center for Genetic Discovery and the Huntsman Cancer Institute. Dr. Yang's lab research interests include the development of methodologies to study germline and somatic mosaicism, as well as the use of genomic mosaicism to understand human development and diseases.