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Curriculum Vitae

Wenyu Zhang

​Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology

August-Thienemann-Str. 2, 24306 Plön, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Website: https://zhangwenyu.wixsite.com/site

E-mail: wyzhang@evolbio.mpg.de

EDUCATION:

  • 2010.09-2015.12 Ph.D. in Systems Biology, Center for Systems Biology, Soochow University. Advisor: Prof. Bairong Shen & Prof. Manyuan Long.

  • 2013.09-2015.09 Visiting student, Department of Ecology and Evolution, The University of Chicago. Advisor: Prof. Manyuan Long.

  • 2006.09-2010.06 B. Sc. in Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Medical college, Soochow University. Advisor: Prof. Bairong Shen.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

  • 2016.11-current Postdoc researcher, Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max-Planck institute for Evolutionary Biology. Supervisor: Prof. Diethard Tautz.

  • 2016.01-2016.11 Lecturer (Assistant professor), Center for Systems Biology, Soochow University.

HONORS & AWARD:

  • 2020.02 Registration award for SMBE2020 conference in Canada

  • 2016.12 Excellent PhD dissertation award of Soochow University (Year 2015)

  • 2014.12 China National Scholarship for PhD graduate students

  • 2013-2014 Outstanding graduate student scholarship of Soochow University

  • 2011-2012 Outstanding graduate student scholarship of Soochow University

  • 2010-2011 Outstanding graduate student scholarship of Soochow University

  • 2010.06 Outstanding graduates of Medical college of Soochow University

  • 2009-2010 Renmin Scholarship (Grade III) of Soochow University

  • 2008-2009 Renmin Scholarship (Grade II) of Soochow University

  • 2007-2008 Renmin Scholarship (Grade II) of Soochow University

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP:

  • Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE)

  • European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB)

  • The Genetics Society of America (GSA)

TEACHING & MENTORING:

  • 2016.09-11 Teaching on the graduate course "Microarray and Next Generation Sequencing data analysis" in the Center for Systems Biology, Soochow University

  • 2016.06-08 Mentoring (1 undergraduate student + 1 high school student) in the summer school program of The University of Chicago

  • 2015.04-06 Teaching Assistant for graduate course "Classics of Evolutionary Genetic" (Lecturer: Prof. Manyuan Long & Prof. Chung-I Wu) in The University of Chicago

  • 2014.04-06 Teaching Assistant for graduate course "Genetic Networks in Molecular Evolution" (Lecturer: Prof. Manyuan Long) in The University of Chicago

ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL TRAINING:

  • 2019.03.20 Attendance in the "Media training day workshop on communicating animal research" by European Animal Research Association (Held in Plön)

  • 2018.05.13 Participation in the "Genetics peer review training workshop" (Part of the Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference held in Madison, Wisconsin, USA)

  • 2018.02-03 Participation in the course "Animal welfare and laboratory animals" (Theoretical part held in Plön, and practical part held in Kiel)

  • 2017.09.20-22 Participation in the training course "Effective Presentation - Talks, Posters and Papers" in Mainz (By Dr. Alexander Schiller & Dr. Daniel Mertens)

  • 2017.10.17-21 Training on molecular biology lab skills "Extraction of high molecule weight DNA for long-read sequencing" in Max Planck Genome Centre Cologne, Cologne, Germany

  • 2017.03.29 EMBL Course: Using Nanopore Technology for Real Time, Direct, Scalable DNA/RNA Sequencing. Heidelberg, Germany

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION:

  • 2020.02.12-14 Evolutionary Systems Biology Conference, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK (lightning talk + poster)

  • 2019.08.19-24 The 2019 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Turku, Finland (poster presentation)

  • 2019.06.23-26 The 5th International Mouse Meeting, Brno, Czech Republic (oral presentation)

  • 2019.05.23-24 Aquavit 2019 - Internal Symposium at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology (oral presentation)

  • 2019.05.07-09 The 2019 SMRTLeiden Meeting, Leiden, Netherlands

  • 2018.10.04-06 The 1st Münster Evolution Meeting, Münster, Germany (poster presentation)

  • 2018.05.13-16 Population, Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics Conference (PEQG18), Madison, Wisconsin, USA (poster presentation)

  • 2017.07.06-07 Aquavit 2017 - Internal Symposium at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology (oral presentation)

INVITED SEMINAR:

  • 2018.09.08 The Fourth Sub-forum (Gene, Genome and Big data) of the 4th Chengdu International Forum on Precision Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

  • 2016.08.12 Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany. (Hosted by Prof. Diethard Tautz)

JOURNAL REFEREE: (Verifed by publons)

 

Molecular Biology and Evolution (MBE), Molecular Ecology, Cancers, Open Life Sciences

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