{"id":7953,"date":"2025-02-27T14:50:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T01:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/?p=7953"},"modified":"2025-02-27T14:50:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T01:50:38","slug":"ams-welcomes-dr-john-yan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/?p=7953","title":{"rendered":"AMS welcomes Dr. John Yan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are excited to announce that Dr. Juncong (John) Yan has joined the Applied Molecular Solutions team as our new Research Associate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John joins us from the PHEL (Plant Health and Environment Laboratory) at the Ministry for Primary Industries where he worked for six years as a senior scientist in biosecurity. John has a PhD in Animal Science. His expertise are in molecular biology and bioinformatics with a focus on molecular diagnostics and bioinformatics for species identification. This includes areas such as entomology, bacteriology, mycology, and virology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/John-photo-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/John-photo-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/John-photo-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/John-photo-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/John-photo-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/John-photo-2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/John-photo-2-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/John-photo-2-945x709.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/John-lab-photo-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/John-lab-photo-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/John-lab-photo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/John-lab-photo-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/John-lab-photo-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/John-lab-photo-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/John-lab-photo-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/John-lab-photo-945x709.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In John&#8217;s own words &#8220;I\u2019m passionate about advancing biosecurity through science and innovation, and I\u2019d love to connect with others in the field to share knowledge and ideas. Let\u2019s work together to make our world safer through science! Feel free to reach out if you\u2019re interested in collaborating or discussing advancements in biosecurity. Let\u2019s connect!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are thrilled to have John on board and look forward to the exciting contributions he will bring to our team!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce that Dr. Juncong (John) Yan has joined the Applied Molecular Solutions team as our new Research Associate. John joins us from the PHEL (Plant Health and Environment Laboratory) at the Ministry for Primary Industries where&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/?p=7953\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7956,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions\/7956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitec.ac.nz\/ams\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}