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 |
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