Research Assistant Professor
Laboratory: Lab of stem cell Research interest: Bioinformatics, evolution, cancer, plants
Email: yangzhzh@@shanghaitech.edu.cn 
Citizenship/Residency:
China, Shanghai 
Language skill:
Fluent in Mandarin and English Programming skill:
Perl, python, and R
Education: Ph.D. in Plant Biology
Claude W. dePamphilis Lab, Department of Biology, 08/2010 – 05/2016
Penn State University, U.S.
B.S. in Applied Biotechnology
College of Life Science and Technology, 09/2006 – 06/2010
Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China 
Work Experiences: Research Assistant Professor, Post-doctoral scholar in Evolutionary Genomics and Cancer
Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies (SIAIS) 08/2017-Now
ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
Post-doctoral scholar in Plant Genome and Evolution
Claude W. dePamphilis lab, Department of Biology 07/2016-07/2017
Penn State University
Publications:
1. Zhenzhen Yang, Yeting Zhang, Eric K Wafula, Loren A. Honaas, Paula E. Ralph, Sam Jones, Christopher R. Clarke, Siming Liu, Chun Su, Huiting Zhang, Naomi S. Altman, Stephan C. Schuster, Michael P. Timko, John I. Yoder, James H. Westwood, Claude W. dePamphilis. Horizontal gene transfer is more frequent with increased heterotrophy and contributes to parasite adaptation. PNAS 2016 113 (45) E7010-E7019; published ahead of print October 24, 2016, doi:10.1073/pnas.1608765113
2. Zhenzhen Yang, Eric K. Wafula, Loren A. Honaas, Huiting Zhang, Malay Das, Monica Fernández-Aparicio, Kan Huang, Pradeepa C.G. Bandaranayake, Biao Wu, Joshua P. Der, Christopher R. Clarke, Paula Ralph, Lena Landherr, Naomi S. Altman, Michael P. Timko, John I. Yoder, James H. Westwood, and Claude W. dePamphilis (2014) Comparative transcriptome analyses reveal core parasitism genes and suggest gene duplication and repurposing as sources of structural novelty. Mol Biol Evol doi: 10.1093/molbev/msu343
3. Loren A. Honaas, Eric K. Wafula, Zhenzhen Yang, Joshua P. Der, Norman J. Wickett, Naomi S. Altman, Christopher G. Taylor, John I. Yoder, Michael P. Timko, James H. Westwood, Claude W. dePamphilis. 2013. Functional genomics of a generalist parasitic plant: laser microdissection of host-parasite interface reveals host-specific patterns of parasite gene expression. BMC Plant Biol 13: 9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-13-9
4. Malay Das, Monica Fernández-Aparicio, Zhenzhen Yang, Kan Huang, Norman J. Wickett, Shannon Alford, Eric K. Wafula, Claude dePamphilis, Harro Bouwmeester, Michael P. Timko, John I. Yoder, James H. Westwood (2015). Parasitic plants Striga and Phelipanche dependent upon exogenous strigolactones for germination have retained genes for strigolactone biosynthesis. American Journal of Plant Sciences 6(8): 1151-1166
5. Kang H, Zhu H, Chu X, Yang Z, Yuan S, Yu D, Wang C, Hong Z, Zhang Z (2011) A novel interaction between CCaMK and a protein containing the Scythe N ubiquitin-like domain in Lotus japonicas. Plant Physiol 155: 1312–1324 6. Heng Kang, Xiaojie Chu, Chao Wang, Aifang Xiao, Hui Zhu, Songli Yuan, Zhenzhen Yang, Danxia Ke, Shaobo Xiao, and Zonglie Hong, Zhongming Zhang (2013) A MYB coiled-coil transcription factor interacts with NSP2 and is involved in nodulation in Lotus japonicas. New Phytologist DOI: 10.1111/nph.12593
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