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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 - Office: (734) 763-0527
- Lab: (734) 763-0514
- 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
Wei-Chin Ho, Chuan Li, Xinzhu Wei, Bryan Moyers (Bioinformatics), Jinrui Xu (Bioinformatics)
Postdoctoral fellows
Calum MacLean, Xiaoshu Chen, Jian-Rong Yang
UM affiliation
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Center for Statistical Genetics
School of Public Health - Bioinformatics Program
U-M Medical School
Research feature
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