在著名的戴安湖（Dian Lake）外，举行了中国遗传学会的国民大会，有600多人参加了这一重要活动，每五年仅举行两次。
会议的主题是“遗传多样性：边界和挑战”，会议吸引了许多中国顶级的遗传科学家。
遗传研究的最新趋势
During the three days, scientists presented and discussed the latest trends in genetic research at the conference. As a keynote speaker,林教授from Shanghai Jiaotong University talked about the coming of the era of psychosis and pointed out that psychological problems have become a non-negligible issue in modern people.He also emphasized the importance of genetic studies in understanding psychological diseases.
在教授讲话的最后一部分中，他为观众带来了一个名为“新医学”的全新概念，他将其描述为传统医学，基因组学和基因咨询的结合。他说，这种组合将把药物带入一个新时代。
另一个主题演讲者，Guqiang Chen教授谈到了基因表达调节在增强通过生物合成产生一个非常有用的聚酯多羟基烷烃的效率方面的重要性。
For creating a sustainable environment for future generations of human beings, Professor Chen urged for more research to be carried out in developing synthetic biology. He hoped that in the future people would be able to apply this more environmentally friendly method in manufacturing more useful chemicals for the whole society.
Biomed Central的展位讨论
除了来自主题演讲者的这些有趣的故事外，来自不同会议的科学家还为与会者带来了一些有趣的科学发现。Linquan Bai教授在微生物遗传学教授来自上海Jiaotong University, gave a talk to unveil the mechanistic mystery of nitrates in enhancing the efficiency of biosynthesis of Lincomycin.
After his talk, Professor Bai came to BioMed Central’s booth and shared with us his thoughts in scientific publishing and his research field. He stressed the importance of the open access model in scientific research and praised our microbiology journals, such asMicrobial Cell Factories和BMC Microbiology。对于微生物学的未来趋势，他指出，通过微生物方法发现药物应具有巨大的研究人员探索的潜力。
In the field of plant genetics, the top cotton scientist from Nanjing Agricultural University,Professor Tianzhen Zhanggave us a talk focusing on domestication of tetraploid cotton as a follow-up of his previous work出版于Genome Biologyearlier this year.
Professor Zhang also came to BioMed Central’s booth and shared his ideas on scientific publishing. He pointed out the importance of ethics in scientific publishing and stressed that the vast majority of Chinese researchers do treat publishing ethics very seriously.
此外，他强调出版物速度是当前研究世界中科学期刊的核心能力，他称赞这样的事实，即开放访问模型为作者从提交到出版物的过程中带来了更快的过程。
When talking about the ethics in genomic diagnosis and genome editing,Professor Huanming Yangfrom the Beijing Genomics Institute discussed the importance of ethics in scientific research.
他强调，道德不应该反对科学研究。相反，道德应该支持科学的发展，而科学家在进行研究时也应注意道德。
In a subsequent panel discussion, several researchers suggested that the whole research community should slow down the pace of genome editing on human germ cells and further steps into this field should only be taken if the safety and reliability of multiplex genome editing technology can be guaranteed.
测序的未来
会议以一系列主题演讲的结尾，重点介绍了遗传学和基因组研究的未来。从人类基因组项目到建立生命之树，杨教授分享了他在过去20年中所进行的尖端研究的经验。
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of sequencing.
杨教授
Beijing Genomics Institute
随着测序在生物学和医学研究的各个方面成为最常用的工具，梦想对所有内容进行测序，并对每个人进行排序，每个人仍然鼓励科学家在这一领域进行创新。
测序的未来is more than just understanding the genome but also owns the capability to improve the tree of life, to improve breeding and bio-industry, as well as to improve health, much as President Obama raised the idea ofPrecision Medicine。
杨教授ended his talk with a revised version of a famous saying “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of sequencing”.
It’s always fun seeing great minds come together at conferences like this. Sounds like some interesting discussions happened! Thanks for sharing this overview.