2020: Second Prize in Natural Science, 11th Liangxi Forestry Science and Technology Award
2018: First Prize in Natural Science, Excellent Scientific Research Achievement Award of Higher Education Institutions
2017: Leading Talent in Scientific and Technological Innovation, Ministry of Science and Technology's Innovation Talent Promotion Plan
2015: Selected for the 12th Batch of High-Level Talent Support Plan, Jiangsu Province 'Six Talent Peaks'
2014: Selected for the Second Batch of 'Pinnacle Talent Support Plan', Nanjing University
2013: First Prize in Teaching Achievement Award (Higher Education), Jiangsu Province
2012: New Century Excellent Talent Support Plan, Ministry of Education
2010: Young and Middle-aged Academic Leader, 'Qinglan Project', Jiangsu Province
Research
Evolutionary Genetics Bioinformatics
Re-evaluating evidence for adaptive mutation rate variation, Wang L, Ho AT, Hurst LD, Yang S, 2023
In rice splice variants that restore the reading frame after frameshifting indel introduction are common, often induced by the indels and sometimes lead to organism-level rescue, Jia Y, Qin C, Traw MB, Chen X, He Y, Kai J, Yang S, Wang L, Hurst LD, 2022
Somatic mutation analysis in Salix suchowensis reveals early segregated cell lineages, Ren Y, He Z, Liu P, Traw B, Sun S, Tian D, Yang S, Jia Y, Wang L, 2021
Rapid functional differentiation and fixation of the duplicated members in rice Dof genes after whole genome duplication, Yu L, Ma S, Zhang X, Tian D, Yang S, Jia X, Traw MB, 2021
Mitotic gene conversion can be as important as meiotic conversion in driving genetic variability in plants and other species without early germline segregation, Jia X, Zhang Q, Jiang M, Huang J, Yu L, Traw MB, Tian D, Hurst LD, Yang S, 2021
Repeat-induced point mutation in Neurospora crassa causes the highest known mutation rate and mutational burden of any cellular life, Wang L, Sun, Y, Sun X, Yu L, Xue L, He Z, Huang J, Tian D, Hurst LD, Yang S, 2020
CRISPR-based assessment of genomic structure in the conserved SQUAMOSA promoter-binding-like gene clusters in rice, Jiang M, He Y, Chen X, Zhang X, Guo Y, Yang S, Huang J, Traw M, 2020
Large-scale identification and functional analysis of NLR genes in blast resistance in the Tetep rice genome sequence, Wang L, Zhao L, Zhang X, Zhang Q, Jia Y, Wang G, Li S, Tian D, Li WS, Yang S, 2019
Liriodendron genome sheds light on angiosperm phylogeny and species-pair differentiation, Chen J, Hao Z, Guang X, Zhao C, Wang P, Xue L, Zhu Q, Yang L, Yu Sheng, Zhou Y, Xu H, Xie H, Long X, Zhang J, Wang Z, Shi M, Lu Y, Liu S, Guan L, Zhu Q, Yang L, Ge S, Cheng T, Laux T, Gao Q, Peng Y, Liu N, Yang S, Shi J, 2019
The architecture of intra-organism mutation rate variation in plants, Wang L, Ji Y, Hu Y, Hu H, Jia X, Jiang M, Zhang X, Zhao L, Zhang Y, Jia Y, Qin C, Yu L, Huang J, Yang S, Hurst LD, Tian D, 2019
High resolution insight into recombination events at the SD1 locus in rice, Jia X, Zhang Y, Zhang Q, Zhao Q, Wang L, Traw M, Tian D, Wang C, Yang S, 2019
CRISPR-based assessment of gene specialization in the gibberellin metabolic pathway in rice, Chen X, Tian X, Xue L, Zhang X, Yang S, Traw M, Huang J, 2019
Tetrad analysis in plants and fungi finds large differences in gene conversion rates but no GC bias, Liu H, Huang J, Sun X, Li J, Hu Y, Yu L, Liti G, Tian D, Hurst LD, Yang S, 2018
Identifying a Large Number of High-Yield Genes in Rice by Pedigree Analysis, Whole-Genome Sequencing, and CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Knockout, Huang J, Li J, Zhou J, Wang L, Yang S, Hurst LD, Li W-H, Tian D, 2018
Direct determination of the mutation rate in the bumblebee reveals evidence for weak recombination-associated mutation and an approximate rate constancy in insects, Liu H, Jia Y, Sun X, Tian D, Hurst LD, Yang S, 2017
Dissimilar Manifestation of Heterosis in Super Hybrid Rice at Early-Tillering Stage under Nutrient-Deficient and Nutrient-Sufficient Condition, Gu L, Wu Y, Jiang M, Si W, Zhang X, Tian D, Yang S, 2016
Mutation rate analysis via parent-progeny sequencing of the perennial peach I. A low rate in woody perennials and a higher mutagenicity in hybrids, Xie Z, Wang L, Wang L, Wang Z, Lu, Z, Tian D, Yang S, Hurst LD, 2016
Mutation rate analysis via parent-progeny sequencing of the perennial peach II: No evidence for recombination-associated mutation, Wang L, Zhang Y, Qing C, Tian D, Yang S, Hurst LD, 2016
Insertion DNA accelerates meiotic interchromosomal recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana, Sun XQ, Li DH, Xue JY, Yang SH, Zhang YM, Li MM, Hang Y, 2016
Parent-progeny sequencing indicates higher mutation rates in heterozygotes, Yang S, Wang L, Huang J, Zhang X, Yuan Y, Chen J-Q, Hurst LD, Tian D, 2015
Causes and consequences of crossing-over evidenced via a high-resolution recombinational landscape of the honey bee, Liu H, Zhang X, Huang J, Chen JQ, Tian D, Hurst LD, Yang S, 2015
Widely distributed hot and cold spots in meiotic recombination as shown by sequencing of rice F2 plants, Si W, Yuan Y, Huang J, Zhang X, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Tian D, Wang C, Yang YH, Yang S, 2015
A genome-wide survey reveals abundant rice blast R-genes in resistant cultivars, Zhang X, Yang S, Wang J, Jia Y, Huang J, Zhong Y, Tan S, Wang L, Gu L, Chen JQ, Pan QH, Bergelson J, Tian D, 2015
Rapidly evolving R genes in diverse grass species confer resistance to rice blast disease, Yang S, Li J, Zhang X, Zhang Q, Huang J, Chen J-Q, Hartl DL, Tian D, 2013
Great majority of recombination events in Arabidopsis are gene conversion events, Yang S, Yuan Y, Wang L, Li J, Wang W, Liu H, Chen JQ, Hurst LD, Tian D, 2012
Tracing the origin and evolutionary history of plant nucleotide-binding site-leucine-rich repeat (NBS-LRR) genes, Yue J-X, Meyers BC, Chen J-Q, Tian D, Yang S, 2012
Single-nucleotide mutation rate increases close to indels in eukaryotes, Tian D, Wang Q, Zhang P, Araki H, Yang S, Kreitman M, Nagylaki T, Hudson R, Bergelson J, Chen JQ, 2008
