Areas of Focus
- Genomics
- Bioinformatics
- Molecular Evolution
- Parasitic Fungi
- Bacterial Genomes
- Gene Family Evolution
- Secondary Metabolic Pathways
- Secretory Proteins
- Transport Proteins
- Toxin Formation
Work Experience
- 2001-2005: Deputy Director and Head of Bioinformatics Department, BGI-Hangzhou
- 2005-Present: Associate Researcher and Executive Head of Bioinformatics Department, National Human Genome South Research Center
- 2008-Present: Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1994-2002: PhD in Genetics, Fudan University
- 2002: PhD in Genetics, Fudan University
Publications
- The Schistosoma japonicum genome reveals features of host-parasite interplay, Zhou Y, Zheng HJ, Chen YY, et al., 2009
- Finding genes in Schistosoma japonicum: annotating novel genomes with help of extrinsic evidence, Brejová B, Vinař T, Chen YY, Wang SY, Zhao GP, Brown DG, Li M, Zhou Y, 2009
- Sequencing the genome of Marssonina brunnea reveals fungus-poplar co-evolution, Zhu S, Cao YZ, Jiang C, Tan BY, Wang Z, Feng SS, Zhang L, Su XH, Brejova B, Vinar T, Xu M, Wang MX, Zhang SG, Huang MR, Wu RL, Zhou Y, 2012
- Hox genes from the parasitic flatworm Schistosoma japonicum, Gu JL, Chen SX, Dou TH, Xu MJ, Xu JX, Zhang L, Hu W, Wang SY, Zhou Y, 2012
- Improving detection of differentially expressed gene sets by applying cluster enrichment analysis to Gene Ontology, Xu T, Gu JL, Zhou Y, Du LF, 2009
Awards
- 2003: Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize of Chinese Academy of Sciences, as a member of The Chinese Superhybrid Rice Genome Project
- 2003: Selected as New Century Excellent Science and Technology Talents of Hangzhou
- 2010: Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Prize for Higher Learning Institutions of Ministry of Education, PRC, First Prize of Natural Sciences
- 2010: Sponsored by Shanghai Rising-Star Program