Welcome to Dr. Mengyuan Renβs academic webpage! Here this page is established to record my academic path, experiences, and achievements. You can also have a quick access knowing me. My major is epidemiology and biostatistics. I just received my Ph.D degree in Peking University with the supervision of Dr. Bin Wang at the Institute of Reproductive and Child Health, School of Public Health, Peking University. During my Ph.D candidate period, I was fully trained with multi-disciplinaries including epidemiology, biostatistics, bioinformatics, and environmental science. Now Iβm working as a postdoc at RSPH in Emory University with the supervision of Dr. Donghai Liang.
My research interest includes exploring the effects and mechanisms of environmental factors on human health using multi-omics approaches, including but are not limited to exposome, microbiome and metabolome. Recently, I focus on establishing integrated analytical framework on identifying disease-specific sensitive biomarkers among environmental exposures in mixture, and building interpretable prediction models using advanced machine learning algorithms. During my postdoc period, we will work with collegues and collaborators on diverse exciting projects using multi-omics data to investigate how environmental exposures influcence maternal and child health outcomes through omics approaches.
I have published 24 papers at the top international journals such as Environ. Int., The Innovation,β¦ 
π₯ News
- 2024.11: Β ππ Congrats for Dr. Mengyuan Ren offically started his postdoc training program at Emory University!
- 2024.07: Β ππ Congrats for Dr. Mengyuan Ren receiving his Epidemiology and Biostatistics Ph.D degree in Peking University!π
- 2024.06: Β ππ Congrats for Mengyuan Ren receiving the oral postdoc position offer from the co-supervisor Dr. Donghai Liang at the Emory University!
- 2024.06: Β ππ Congrats for Mengyuan Ren being awarded with βOutstanding Report Awardβ at the 6th Academic Conference on Environmental Risk and Prevention and Control of Emerging Contaminants in Nankai, China!
π Publications
Ascertaining Sensitive Exposure Biomarkers of Various Metal(loid)s to Embryo Implantation
Mengyuan Ren, Tianxiang Wu, Shuo Yang, β¦ Bin Wang*, Mingliang Fang.
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- Close relations exist between metals exposure and embryo implantation failure (EIF).
- Identifying sensitive metal biomarkers and exploring mechanisms for EIF is crucial.
- We built a framework for sensitive biomarkers screening with integrated information.
- Four out of 272 candidates were identified as sensitive metal biomarkers for EIF.
- Diverse pathways were identified as potential mechanisms for these biomarkers on EIF.
Mengyuan Ren, Mingliang Fang, Jing Liu, β¦ Bin Wang*.
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- Environmental exposures have close relationship with reproductive health.
- Hair exposome has huge potential and demands in health risk assessment studies.
- Reliability of hair to represent exposure and effect biomarkers is of high concern.
- Reliable hair biomarker database based on previous literatures was established.
- Analytical framework on hair exposome for reproductive health was proposed.
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π Honors and Awards
- 2024.06 Outstanding Report Award. The 6th Academic Conference on Environmental Risk and Prevention and Control of Emerging Contaminants in Nankai, China.
π Educations
- 2020.09 - 2024.07, Ph.D, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
- 2018.09 - 2020.07, MM, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
- 2013.09 - 2018.07, MB, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
π¬ Conferences
- The 6th Academic Conference on Environmental Risk and Prevention and Control of Emerging Contaminants, 2024, Nankai, China. Using Knowledge-driven Framework to Establish Environment and Reproductive Health Risk Assessment Model, Oral.
- The 5th Academic Conference on Environmental Risk and Prevention and Control of Emerging Contaminants, 2023, Zhengzhou, China. Metallomics and Preterm Birth Risk: from Exposure Biomarkers to Key Biological Pathways, Oral.
- The 2020 Environmental and Health Conference, Nanning, China. Associations between Maternal Hair Heavy Metals and Nutritional Trace Elements with Preterm Birth Risk, Poster.
- The 10th National Conference on Environmental Chemistry (NCEC), 2019, Tianjin, China. Simultaneous Analysis of Typical Environmental Organic Pollutants and Metal(loid) Elements in Human Hair: An Exposome Approach, OralοΌMetallomics and Reproductive Health: Fetal Neural Tube Defects as An Example, Oral.
- The 2018 International Symposium on Environment and Health (ISEH), 2018, Shanghai, China. Association between Passive Smoking and Plasma Folate Levels among Women of Childbearing Age in China, Poster.
π» Internships
- 2024.07 - 2024.09, Research Assistant(Unofficial), Beijing, China.