2015.09 – 2019.07 Ph.D. in Genomics: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2010.09 – 2012.07 M.Sc. in Agronomy: Iowa State University
2006.09 – 2010.07 B.Sc. in Plant Pathology: China Agricultural University
Research
Analysis of biodiversity patterns and evolutionary mechanisms Research on macroevolutionary rules Analysis of the origin and molecular genetic mechanisms of complex animal traits Species climate response patterns Disease evolution research
Incomplete lineage sorting and phenotypic evolution in marsupials, Feng, S., Bai, M., Rivas-González, I., Li, C., Liu, S., Tong, Y., Yang, H., Chen, G., Xie, D., Sears, K. E., Franco, L. M., Gaitan-Espitia, J. D., Nespolo, R. F., Johnson, W. E., Yang, H., Brandies, P. A., Hogg, C. J., Belov, K., Renfree, M. B., … Zhang, G., 2022
Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics, Feng, S., Stiller, J., Deng, Y., Armstrong, J., Fang, Q., Reeve, A. H., Xie, D., Chen, G., Guo, C., Faircloth, B. C., Petersen, B., Wang, Z., Zhou, Q., Diekhans, M., Chen, W., Andreu-Sánchez, S., Margaryan, A., Howard, J. T., Parent, C., … Zhang, G., 2020
The Genomic Footprints of the Fall and Recovery of the Crested Ibis, Feng, S., Fang, Q., Barnett, R., Li, C., Han, S., Kuhlwilm, M., Zhou, L., Pan, H., Deng, Y., Chen, G., Gamauf, A., Woog, F., Prys-Jones, R., Marques-Bonet, T., Gilbert, M. T. P., & Zhang, G., 2019
Progressive Cactus is a multiple-genome aligner for the thousand-genome era, Armstrong, J., Hickey, G., Diekhans, M., Fiddes, I. T., Novak, A. M., Deran, A., Fang, Q., Xie, D., Feng, S., Stiller, J., Genereux, D., Johnson, J., Marinescu, V. D., Alföldi, J., Harris, R. S., Lindblad-Toh, K., Haussler, D., Karlsson, E., Jarvis, E. D., … Paten, B., 2020
Orthologous microsatellites, transposable elements, and DNA deletions correlate with generation time and body mass in neoavian birds, Ji, Y., Feng, S., Wu, L., Fang, Q., Brüniche-Olsen, A., DeWoody, J.A., Cheng, Y., Zhang, D., Hao, Y., Song, G., Qu, Y., Suh, A., Zhang, G., Hackett, S.J., & Lei, F., 2022
Draft genome assemblies of four manakins, Li, X., Gao, R., Chen, G., Price, A. L., Øksnebjerg, D. B., Hosner, P. A., Zhou, Y., Zhang, G., & Feng, S., 2022
Comparable Number of Genes Having Experienced Positive Selection among Great Ape Species, Xie, D., Chen, G., Meng, X., Wang, H., Bi, X., Fang, M., Yang, C., Zhou, Y., Long, E., & Feng, S., 2021
Genomic insights into the secondary aquatic transition of penguins, Cole, T.L., Zhou, C., Fang, M., Pan, H., Ksepka, D.T., Fiddaman, S.R., Emerling, C.A., Thomas, D.B., Bi, X., Fang, Q., Ellegaard, M.R., Feng, S., … Zhang, G., 2022
A new emu genome illuminates the evolution of genome configuration and nuclear architecture of avian chromosomes, Liu, J., Wang, Z., Li, J., Xu, L., Liu, J., Feng, S., Guo, C., Chen, S., Ren, Z., Rao, J., Wei, K., Chen, Y., Jarvis, E. D., Zhang, G., & Zhou, Q., 2021
A new duck genome reveals conserved and convergently evolved chromosome architectures of birds and mammals, Li, J., Zhang, J., Liu, J., Zhou, Y., Cai, C., Xu, L., Dai, X., Feng, S., Guo, C., Rao, J., Wei, K., Jarvis, E. D., Jiang, Y., Zhou, Z., Zhang, G., & Zhou, Q., 2021
Response of an Afro-Palearctic bird migrant to glaciation cycles, Thorup, K., Pedersen, L., da Fonseca, R. R., Naimi, B., Nogués-Bravo, D., Krapp, M., Manica, A., Willemoes, M., Sjöberg, S., Feng, S., Chen, G., Rey-Iglesia, A., Campos, P. F., Beyer, R., Araújo, M. B., Hansen, A. J., Zhang, G., Tøttrup, A. P., & Rahbek, C., 2021
Kouprey (Bos sauveli) genomes unveil polytomic origin of wild Asian Bos, Sinding, M.-H. S., Ciucani, M. M., Ramos-Madrigal, J., Carmagnini, A., Rasmussen, J. A., Feng, S., Chen, G., Vieira, F. G., Mattiangeli, V., Ganjoo, R. K., Larson, G., Sicheritz-Pontén, T., Petersen, B., Frantz, L., Gilbert, M. T. P., & Bradley, D. G., 2021
Large-scale genomic analysis reveals the genetic cost of chicken domestication, Wang, M., Zhang, J., Guo, X., Li, M., Meyer, R., Ashari, H., Zheng, Z., Wang, S., Peng, M., Jiang, Y., Thakur, M., Suwannapoom, C., Esmailizadeh, A., Hirimuthugoda, N. Y., Zein, M. S. A., Kusza, S., Kharrati-Koopaee, H., Zeng, L., Wang, Y., …, Feng, S., …, Zhang, Y., 2021
A new extinct species of Polynesian sandpiper (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae: Prosobonia) from Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group, and the phylogenetic relationships of Prosobonia, Pietri, V. L. D., Worthy, T. H., Paul Scofield, R., Cole, T. L., Wood, J. R., Mitchell, K. J., Cibois, A., Jansen, J. J. F., Cooper, A. J., Feng, S., Chen, W., Tennyson, A. J., & Wragg, G. M., 2021
Evolutionary History, Genomic Adaptation to Toxic Diet, and Extinction of the Carolina Parakeet, Gelabert, P., Sandoval-Velasco, M., Serres, A., de Manuel, M., Renom, P., Margaryan, A., Stiller, J., de-Dios, T., Fang, Q., Feng, S., Mañosa, S., Pacheco, G., Ferrando-Bernal, M., Shi, G., Hao, F., Chen, X., Petersen, B., Olsen, R-A., Navarro, A., ... Lalueza-Fox, C., 2020
863 genomes reveal the origin and domestication of chicken, Wang, M., Thakur, M., Peng, M., Jiang, Y., Frantz, L. A. F., Li, M., Zhang, J., Wang, S., Peters, J., Otecko, N. O., Suwannapoom, C., Guo, X., Zheng, Z., Esmailizadeh, A., Hirimuthugoda, N. Y., Ashari, H., Suladari, S., Zein, M. S. A., Kusza, S., …, Feng, S., …, Zhang, Y., 2020
Dynamic evolutionary history and gene content of sex chromosomes across diverse songbirds, Xu, L., Auer, G., Peona, V., Suh, A., Deng, Y., Feng, S., Zhang, G., Blom, M. P. K., Christidis, L., Prost, S., Irestedt, M., & Zhou, Q., 2019
Red fox genome assembly identifies genomic regions associated with tame and aggressive behaviours, Kukekova, A. V., Johnson, J. L., Xiang, X., Feng, S., Liu, S., Rando, H. M., Kharlamova, A. V., Herbeck, Y., Serdyukova, N. A., Xiong, Z., Beklemischeva, V., Koepfli, K.-P., Gulevich, R. G., Vladimirova, A. V., Hekman, J. P., Perelman, P. L., Graphodatsky, A. S., O’Brien, S. J., Wang, X., … Zhang, G., 2018
Construction of Red Fox Chromosomal Fragments from the Short-Read Genome Assembly, Rando, H., Farré, M., Robson, M., Won, N., Johnson, J., Buch, R., Bastounes, E., Xiang, X., Feng, S., Liu, S., Xiong, Z., Kim, J., Zhang, G., Trut, L., Larkin, D., & Kukekova, A., 2018