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Zhengting Zou
Zoology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing
Language: English, Chinese
Computational Biology
Molecular Evolution
Phylogenetics
Evolutionary Development
Deep Learning
Bioinformatics
Genomics
Mathematical Modeling
Sequence Analysis
Adaptive Evolution
Areas of Focus
- Computational Biology
- Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics
- Evolutionary Developmental Biology
- Applications of Deep Learning
Work Experience
- 2017 – 2020 - University of Michigan - Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Ecology and Evolution
- 2020.9 – Present - Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Research Group Leader
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2009 – 2013 Bachelor: Biological Sciences, Peking University
- 2013 – 2017 PhD: Bioinformatics, University of Michigan
Publications
- The genetics and evolution of eye color in domestic pigeons (Columba livia), Si S, Xu X, Zhuang Y, Gao X, Zhang H, Zou Z, and Luo SJ, 2021
- Are nonsynonymous transversions generally more deleterious than nonsynonymous transitions?, Zou Z, and Zhang J, 2021
- Idiosyncratic epistasis creates universals in mutational effects and evolutionary trajectories, Lyons DM, Zou Z, Xu H, Zhang J, 2020
- The nature and phylogenomic impact of sequence convergence, Zou Z, and Zhang J, 2020
- Deep residual neural networks resolve quartet molecular phylogenies, Zou Z, Zhang H, Guan Y, Zhang J, 2020
- Amino acid exchangeabilities vary across the tree of life, Zou Z, and Zhang J, 2019
- Deciphering protein evolution and fitness landscapes with latent space models, Ding X, Zou Z, Brooks III CL, 2019
- Gene tree discordance does not explain away the temporal decline of convergence in mammalian protein sequence evolution, Zou Z, and Zhang J, 2017
- Morphological and molecular convergences in mammalian phylogenetics, Zou Z, and Zhang J, 2016
- Y-Chromosome structural diversity in the bonobo and chimpanzee lineages, Oetjens MT, Shen F, Emery SB, Zou Z and Kidd JM, 2016
- Are convergent and parallel amino acid substitutions in protein evolution more prevalent than neutral expectations?, Zou Z, and Zhang J, 2015
- No genome-wide convergence for echolocation, Zou Z, and Zhang J, 2015
- The development and application of a multiplex short tandem repeat (STR) system for identifying subspecies, individuals and sex in tigers, Zou Z-T, Uphyrkina O, Fomenko P, Luo S-J, 2015
- The genetic basis of white tigers, Xu X, Dong G-X, Hu X-S, Miao L, Zhang X-L, Zhang D-L, Yang H-D, Zhang T-Y, Zou Z-T, Zhang T-T, Zhuang Y, Bhak J, Cho YS, Dai W-T, Jiang T-J, Xie C, Li R-Q, Luo S-J, 2013
