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The 2023-2026 picture for Ocean University of China College of Marine Life Sciences is a 116-PI network with 262 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as the leading field (22% of slots across 53 PIs; 53 labels), Molecular Biology as the leading subfield (11% of slots across 34 PIs; 34 labels), and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology as the leading topic (6% of slots across 21 PIs; 21 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The leading PI names are Liang Yu (42.3 weighted works; Electromagnetic wave absorption materials, Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry); Mengqiang Wang (33.6 weighted works; Aquaculture disease management and microbiota, Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms). The clearest collaboration lines are Jingjie Hu and Zhenmin Bao (52 shared works, weight 16); Min Wang and Yantao Liang (33 shared works, weight 15.9). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 13 internal connections, weight 56.1, around Molecular Biology, Ecology, Biomedical Engineering, led by Peng Wang, Lu‐Ning Liu, Chenguang Liu; group 2 with 10 PIs, 12 internal connections, weight 75.1, around Global and Planetary Change, Aquatic Science, Immunology, led by Mengqiang Wang, Jingjie Hu, Xiaoli Hu.