楊子恆檢視原始碼討論檢視歷史
楊子恆 ( Ziheng Yang )職 稱: 研究員職 務: 博士生導師學科類別: 遺傳學 貝葉斯統計 生物信息學2010至今: Director, R.A. Fisher 計算生物學中心，倫敦大學學院2010至今: R.A. Fisher 統計遺傳學教授，遺傳進化與環境系，倫敦大學學院...
工作經歷
2010至今: Director, R.A. Fisher 計算生物學中心，倫敦大學學院 2010至今: R.A. Fisher 統計遺傳學教授，遺傳進化與環境系，倫敦大學學院
2006: 皇家科學院院士
2001-2010: 統計遺傳學教授，生物系，倫敦大學學院
2000-2001: 進化遺傳學高級講師, 生物系, Galton 實驗室, 倫敦大學學院
1997-2000:講師, 生物系, Galton 實驗室, 倫敦大學學院.
1995-1997: 博士後, 綜合生物學系, 加州大學伯克利分校
1994-1995:博士後, 分子進化與遺傳學院, 賓夕法尼亞州立大學.
1993-1994: 博士後，動物科學系, 倫敦自然歷史博物館
1992-1993: 博士後，動物科學系, 劍橋大學.
1992-1997: 講師，動物科學系，北京農業大學.
1987-1989: 講師，動物科學系，北京農業大學
主要研究領域
遺傳學 貝葉斯統計 生物信息學
承擔科研項目情況本研究組從事群體遺傳學，統計基因組學，計算生物學方面的研究。主要是開發分析遺傳學基因組學數據的統計學方法及計算機軟件。大量使用極大似然法，貝葉斯方法，MCMC等計算機模擬算法，並與生物遺傳學家合作開展數據分析工作。
代表論著
1. Z. Yang. 2014. Molecular Evolution: A Statistical Approach, Oxford University Press, in press
2. dos Reis, M., T. Zhu, and Z. Yang. 2014. The impact of the rate prior on Bayesian estimation of divergence times with multiple loci. Systematic Biology submitted
3. Yoder, A. D., L. M. Chan, M. dos Reis, P. A. Larsen, C. R. Campbell, R. Rasolarison, M. Barrett, C. Roos, P. Kappeler, J. P. Bielawski, and Z. Yang. 2014. Molecular evolutionary characterization of a V1R subfamily unique to Strepsirrhine primates. Genome Biology and Evolution, in press
4. dos Reis, M.*, M. J. Donoghue, and Z. Yang. 2014. Neither phylogenomic nor palaeontological data support a Paleogene origin of placental mammals. Biology Letters, in press
5. Leaché AD, Harris RB, Rannala B, Yang Z. 2014. The influence of gene flow on species tree estimation: a simulation study. Systematic Biology
6. Yang Z., and C.E. Rodríguez. 2013. Searching for efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo proposal kernels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of U.S.A.
7. Rannala B, Yang Z. 2013. Molecular clock dating. pages 68-74 in Princeton Handbook of Evolution (ed. D.A. Baum).
8. dos Reis, M., and Z. Yang. 2013. Why do more divergent sequences produce smaller nonsynonymous/synonymous rate ratios in pairwise sequence comparisons? Genetics
9. Stadler T, Yang Z 2013. Dating phylogenies with sequentially sampled tips. Systematic Biology
10. Zou X-H, Yang Z, Doyle JJ & Ge S. 2013. Multilocus estimation of divergence times and ancestral effective population sizes of Oryza species and implications for the rapid diversification of the genus. New Phytologist
11. Rannala, B, and Yang, Z. 2013. Improved reversible jump algorithms for Bayesian species delimitation. Genetics
12. dos Reis, M., and Z. Yang. 2013. The unbearable uncertainty of Bayesian divergence time estimation. Journal of Systematics and Evolution
13. dos Reis M., Inoue J., Hasegawa M., Asher R., Donoghue P.C., Yang Z. 2012. Phylogenomic data sets provide both precision and accuracy in estimating the timescale of placental mammal evolution. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. Biol. Sc
14. Zhai W, Nielsen R, Goldman N, Yang Z. 2012. Looking for Darwin in genomic sequences - validity and success of statistical methods. Molecular Biology and Evolution
15. Zhu T, Yang Z. 2012. Maximum likelihood implementation of an isolation-with-migration model with three species for testing speciation with gene flow. Molecular Biology and Evolution
16. Zhang C, Rannala B, Yang Z. 2012. Robustness of compound Dirichlet priors for Bayesian inference of branch lengths. Systematic Biology
17. Yang Z., Rannala B. 2012. Molecular phylogenetics: principles and practice. Nature Review Genetics
18. Parham, J, Donoghue, P, Bell, C, Calway, T, Head, J, Holroyd, P, Inoue, J, Irmis, R, Joyce, W, Ksepka, D, Patane, J, Smith, N, Tarver, J, van Tuinen, M, Yang, Z, Angielczyk, K, Greenwood, J, Hipsley, C, Louis, J, Makovicky, P, Mueller, J, Smith, K, Theodor, J, Warnock, R and Benton, M, 2012. Systematic Biology
19. Warnock, R.C.M., Z. Yang, and P.C.J. Donoghue. 2012. Exploring uncertainty in the calibration of the molecular clock.
20. Rannala B., Zhu T., Yang Z. 2012. Tail paradox, partial identifiability and influential priors in Bayesian branch length inference. Molecular Biology and Evolution
21. Zhang C., Zhang D.-X., Yang Z. 2011. Evaluation of a Bayesian coalescent method of species delimitation. Systematic Biology
22. Brown RP, Yang Z. 2011. Rate variation and estimation of divergence times using strict and relaxed clocks. BMC Evolutionary Biology
23. Zang, L.-L., X.-H. Zou, F.-M. Zhang, Z. Yang, S. Ge, 2011 Phylogeny and species delimitation of the C-genome diploid species in Oryza. Journal of Systematics and Evolution
24. Groussin M., Pawlowski J., Yang Z. 2011. Bayesian relaxed clock estimation of divergence times in Foraminifera. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution,
25. Yoshida I, Sugiura W, Shibata J, Ren F, Yang Z, Tanaka H. 2011. Change of positive selection pressure on HIV-1 envelope gene inferred by early and recent samples
26. dos Reis M, Yang Z. 2011. Approximate likelihood calculation for Bayesian estimation of divergence times. Molecular Biology and Evolution
27. Zhu, T., Y. Hu, Z. Ma, D.-X. Zhang, T. Li, and Z. Yang. 2011. Efficient simulation under a population genetics model of carcinogenesis. Bioinformatics
28. Yang Z., dos Reis M. 2011. Statistical properties of the branch-site test of positive selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution
29. Wilkinson RD, Steiper ME, Soligo C, Martin RD, Yang Z, Tavare S. 2011. Dating primate divergences through an integrated analysis of palaeontological and molecular data. Systematic Biology
社會任職
分子生物與進化學會會員；系統生物學家協會會員；曾任《遺傳學》、《分子生物學與進化》和《分子系統學》等雜誌副主編
獲獎及榮譽
2010年 晉升為R.A. Fisher 講座教授
2010年 倫敦動物學會Frink獎
2006年 評選為皇家科學院院士[1]