Biodiversity Genomics Lab

2018/08/06	The population study of the genetic mechanism underlying the rapid behavior changes under the domestication experiment for red fox is published in Nature ecology & evolution.
2018/04/24	First AsiaEvo, Connecting Asian Evolutionary Biologists to the World! Over 800 delegates from 34 countries met in Shenzhen, China from 18-20 April for the first AsiaEvo Conference. The conference hosted 44 symposia and attracted contributions from many fields.
2018/02/19	The hologenomic study of the common vampire bat genome and its gut metagenome is published in Nature ecology & evolution
2017/11/17	Our study on fast behavior change of Purto Rico's Africanized honeybee was published in Nature Communications.
2017/09/15	The 1st AsiaEvo Conference online registration is available! Early Bird Registration Deadline: February 1st, 2018. Register Now to Save 1300 CNY!
2017/09/01	The 1st AsiaEvo Conference includes 44 parallel sessions covering all major fields in evolution and attendance of over 100 distinguished speakers from all over the world is confirmed!
2017/09/01	We are pleased to announced four new members joined our lab today. Josefin Stiller who was trained as Phd from UCSD on phylogenomics will work on the B10K project for her postdoc training. Lucie Bergeron will work on her PhD project about mutation rate evolution. Jonas Madsen and Lisa Eigil Brandenborg will work on the ant behaviour and development for their master projects.
2017/07/17	The GAGA project is now live! The goals of the project is explained in Myrmecoological News.
2017/07/04	The genomic study of the sand rat published in PNAS reveals why this desert rodent is susceptible to nutritionally induced diabetes.
2017/06/28	We are pleased to have two lovely girls, Ms. Minqi Cai and Jinxiang Shi from Southeast university, join us as interns!
2017/06/08	The genome of the endangered Chinese Crocodile Lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus) was published in GigaScience.
2017/02/06	The study of Aves class-specific cis-regulatory elements which shed light on the evolution of flight feathers is published in Nature Communications today. This is a new paper from the B10K project!
2016/12/24	Merry Christmas and happy new year to you all!
2016/11/01	The genome of leopard gecko was published in Gigascience.
2016/10/27	The first B10K workshop was held in Beijing during 27-29th Oct, 2016.
2016/10/06	The study of evolutionary trajectories of snake genes and genomes was published in Nature Communications.
2016/09/09	We moved to our new office in China National Genebank (CNGB) today.
2016/06/03	We are delighted to have Mr. Bo Ji join our team as a bioinformatics technician.
2016/05/03	We are delighted to have Ms. Chunxue Guo join our team as the new administrative coordinator.
2015/06/03	We formally announced the initiative of the Bird 10,000 Genomes (B10K) Project in Nature today.
2015/05/18	The study of temporal dynamics of avian populations during pleistocene is published on Current Biology.