Liqing Zhang

lqzhang@uchicago.edu

Education
Sept. 1993 - Sept. 1997 B.S. Biochemistry Lanzhou University China
Sept. 1997 - Sept. 2001 M.S. Molecular Evolution University California Irvine
Sept. 2001 - Sept. 2002 Ph.D. Molecular Evolution University California Irvine
Sept. 2002 - Current Postdoctoral fellow, University of Chicago

Publications
[1] Zhang, L. Q., S. K. Pond and B. S. Gaut. 2001. A survey of the molecular evolutionary dynamics of twenty-five multigene families from four grass taxa. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 52: 144-156.
[2] Zhang, L. Q., B. S. Gaut and T. Vision. 2001. The evolution of duplicated genes. Science 293: 1551.
[3] Zhang, L. Q., A. S. Peek, D. Dunams and B. S. Gaut. 2002. Population genetics of duplicated disease-defense genes, hm1 and hm2, in maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.) and its wild ancestor (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis). Genetics 162:851-860.
[4] Zhang, L. Q., T. Vision and B. S. Gaut. 2002. Patterns of nucleotide substitution among simultaneously duplicated gene pairs in Arabidopsis thaliana. Molecular Biology and Evolution 19:1464-1473.
[5] Zhang, L. Q. and B. S. Gaut. Recombination rates shape the distribution and evolution of tandemly arrayed genes in Arabidopsis thaliana Genome. (Genome Research, accepted).
[6] Zhang, L. Q. and W.H. Li. Mammalian housekeeping genes evolve more slowly than tissue-specific genes. (Molecular Biology and Evolution, in press).

Abstracts/Posters/Presentations
January1998 University of California, Irvine annual graduate student symposium
January 1999 University of California, Irvine annual graduate student symposium
January 2000 California Population and Evolutionary Genetics Group (CalPeg)
June 2000 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE), Yale University
September 2001 University of California, Irvine annual graduate student symposium
April 2001 Jacques Monod Conference: Gene, Genome Duplications & the Evolution of
Novel Gene Functions, France
January 2002 Gordon Research Conference in Molecular Evolution, CA
February 2002 University of Southern California
June 2003 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE), CA

Fellowships
2001-2002 National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
2001 Fellowships in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, UCIRVINE
2000 Fellowship to attend the workshop on Computational Genomics. CSH, NY
1997-Present University California Irvine Fellowship
1993-1997 Lanzhou University Scholarship in China

Updated September 4, 2003