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Yongfeng Zhou Lab

Crop Population Genetics. Zhou Lab primarily focuses on the study of crops and their wild species, investigating (1) the historical dynamics of neutral populations; (2) artificial and natural selection; (3) adaptive and deleterious gene flow; (4) deleterious variation and structural variation; (5) responses to climate change; (6) transposon population genetics; and (7) the dynamic impact of breeding systems on population genetics.

Grape Whole-Genome Design Breeding. Zhou Lab aims to identify beneficial, deleterious, and structural variations within natural populations of grapes and their wild species. All variant information will be integrated into grape genome design breeding. (1) the collection, evaluation, preservation, and breeding application of germplasm resources for grapes and their wild species; (2) in-depth analysis of multi-omics big data using machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms to uncover and interpret the meaning of genomic variations in Vitis  genus and their phenotypic and adaptive impacts; (3) identification and annotation of the grape breeding genome map; (4) construction of an artificial intelligence whole-genome design breeding platform and database for grapes; and (5) the genomic design and selection of outstanding grape progeny with aggregated multiple traits.

This group consists of 34 members, comprising 1 Principal Investigator (PI), 1 Associate Researchers (Pre-PI), 12 Postdoctoral Fellows, 2 Research Assistants, 10 Ph.D. students, and 18 Master's students.

PI： Yongfeng Zhou ( zhouyongfeng@caas.cn )
Associate Researcher

    • Yanling Peng (pengyanling@caas.cn)

    Yanling Peng is a Research Associate from the AGIS in Prof. Yongfeng Zhou’s lab. Before joining this lab, she did a PhD at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and a postdoc in AGIS. She completed her bachelor’s and master’s degree from Lanzhou University. Her research interests focus on the mining of cis-regulatory elements related to key economical traits in the grapevine with the integration of multi-omics. In addition, her interests also involve in studying structure variation in the grapevine.


Postdoc

    • Hua Xiao (xiaohua01@caas.cn)

      Hua Xiao is a postdoctoral fellow working on the crop population   genomics. He got a Ph.d in Applied Biological Chemistry in the Univsity of   Tokyo and his preivous work focused on heavy metal transport and response in rice.

    • ZhongJie Liu (liuzhongjie@caas.cn)

      Zhongjie Liu. I am a post doctor in Agricultural Genomics   Institute at Shenzhen (AGIS) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences   (CAAS). I graduated from Nanjing agriculture university (NJAU) and interested   in the grape organ morphogenesis and phenomics in especial fruit and leaf.   Now, I am shift some attention to study the molecular population genetics and   expected to explain the evolution of muscut in grape.

    • Wenwen Liu (wen.wen.liu@hotmail.com)

      Wenwen Liu is a postdoctoral fellow working on the grape   population genetics of somatic mutation. Her previous work focuserd on   light-independent regulation mechanism of anthocyanin synthesis in grape.

    • Xiaodong Xu (mazhiyao@caas.cn）

      Xiaodong Xu joined the lab in 2021 as Postdoc, working on   Population Genomics and Breeding of Vitis L. He earned Ph.D. in Central China   Normal University, where he studied Plant Taxonomy.

    • Zhiyao Ma (mazhiyao@caas.cn)

      Zhiyao Ma is a postdoc fellow working on phylogenomic and adaptive radiation of Vitaceae and Vitis.

    • Fan Zhang (zhangfan06@caas.cn)

      Fan Zhang is a postdoc fellow working on population genetics. He   graduated from Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). His research   interests involved method development of genome wide association study (GWAS)   and genomic selection (GS).

    • Hui Xue (xuehui01@caas.cn)

      Hui XUE, currently a postdoctoral fellow in metabolic analysis at Zhou Lab. Obtained a doctoral degree in Biosphere Resource Science from Tsukuba University in Japan. The main research directions are fruit tree genetics and breeding, as well as fruit quality metabolism.

    • Bilal Ahmad (bilalahmad@caas.cn)

      Bilal Ahmad is a postdoctoral fellow working on Mango Population Genetics and Genomic Breeding. In 2020, he obtained a Ph.D. degree in Fruit Breeding and Biotechnology from Northwest A & F University, China. His doctoral research focused on ovule abortion in grapes.

    • Xuejing Cao (caoxuejing@caas.cn)

      Xuejing cao, a postdoctoral researcher, graduated from Gansu Agricultural University with a PhD. Her research focuses on fruit tree stress physiology and growth regulation, mainly engaged in apple quality research.


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