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Long Ma is a Professor of Genetics at the State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics and a faculty of the School of Life Sciences of Central South University, Changsha, China. Long received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from Peking Unversity in 1992. He received his Master of Science degree under the supervision of Professor Jingzhong Liu at the Institute of Basic Medicine of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. From 1995 to 2000, he performed his PhD graduate study on the expression and functions of neurotrophins and their receptors at UT Southwestern Medical Center in the laboratory of Dr. Luis F. Parada. After receiving his PhD degree, he stayed for two years in the Parada laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2003, Long began his studies of C. elegans as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. H. Robert Horvitz at MIT Department of Biology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2009, Long joined the Central South University as a faculty. His research interests include RNA splicing, behavioral genetics and disease genetics. Long primarily use C. elegans and mouse as genetic models to study the molecular mechanisms of important biological processes and human diseases.

Long’s research has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education of China.

Long is currently a member of the steering committee of the RNA Society of China and a member of the Genetic Society of America.

Long has served as reviewers for Nature Protocols, Scientific Reports, PLOS ONE, the Human Frontier Science Program and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.