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Jianzhi Zhang
- Professor
- Ph. D., Genetics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 1998
- Zhang Lab
Contact information
- University of Michigan
1075 Kraus Natural Science Building
830 North University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048 - Phone: (734) 763-0527
- Fax: (734) 763-0544
- Email: jianzhi@umich.edu
Fields of study
Molecular and genomic evolution
Academic background
B. S., Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 1992; Ph. D., Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 1998; Fogarty postdoctoral fellow, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD, 1999-2001; Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, 2001-2005; Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, 2005-2009; Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, 2009-present.
Graduate students
Meg Bakewell, Wei-Chin Ho, Chuan Li, Brian Metzger, Wenfeng Qian, Zengguang Wang, Jinrui Xu (Bioinformatics)
Postdoctoral fellows
Ying Li, Calum MacLean, Chungoo Park, Huabin Zhao
UM affiliation
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Center for Statistical Genetics
School of Public Health - Bioinformatics Program
U-M Medical School
Related news
EEB graduate students Celia Churchill and Wenfeng Qian won the 2012 EEB Outstanding Paper Award.
In a recent issue of PNAS, Professor Jianzhi Zhang and his colleagues propose and demonstrate that an important yet enigmatic phenomenon involving proteins, is at least in part caused by natural selection against protein-protein misinteraction.
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Pioneering evolutionary biologist Jianzhi Zhang will discuss genetic changes underlying human origins as the Jean Pasakarnis Buchanan Lecturer at Bowling Green State University, Thursday, April 12 at 7 p.m.
