CHAOZHI ZHENG

2015-3-2

Contact information

    Biometris, Wageningen University and Research Centre
    6700AC Wageningen, The Netherlands
    Telephone:     +31 317 480806
    Email:             chaozhi@gmail.com
    Homepage:     http://chaozhi.github.io

Education

    2005-2009     Ph. D. Ecology and Evolution. University of Helsinki, Finland. Adviser: Prof. Otso Ovaskainen.
    2004               Ph. D. Physics. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
    2000               M.S. Material Science. University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
    1997               B. S. Material Science. Xi’an Institute of Technology, China

Work experiences

    2013-Now       Postdoctoral Researcher, Wageningen UR, The Netherland. Adviser: Prof. Fred van Eeuwijk.
    2010-2012       Research Associate, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Adviser: Prof. Elizabeth Thompson.
    2009-2010       Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland. Adviser: Prof. Otso Ovaskainen.

Ongoing projects

• QTL modeling in multiparental (diploid) populations.
• Haplotype reconstruction in tetraploid species.

Computer skills

• Minor in computer science. Extensive experiences in Mathematica, and some experiences in R, Delphi, and C.

Scientific meetings attended

• 2014.7.6-11: I attended the International Biometric Conference XXVII, Florence, Italy.
• 2011.11.28-12.2: I attended the workshop (IV): Coancestry, Association, and Population genetics (UC Los Angeles, USA).
• 2011.10.11-15: At the international congress of human genetics (Montreal, Canada) I gave a poster entitled “Bayesian inference of genealogy from population genomic data by the spatial Markov coalescent with recombination”.
• 2008.7.9-11: At the International Statistical Ecology Conference (St. Andrews, UK) I gave a talk entitled “Hierarchical metapopulation dynamics of two aphid species on a shared host plant”.
• 2006.7.31-8.4: At the SIAM Conference on the life science (Raleigh, USA) I gave a talk entitled “Modeling dispersal in highly fragmented landscapes”.
  

Publication List

1. Zheng, C., Boer, M. P., and Eeuwijk, F. A. 2015. Reconstruction of genome ancestry blocks in multiparental populations. Revise and resubmit.
2. Zheng, C. 2015. Modeling X-linked ancestral origins in multiparental populations. Accepted (G3: Genes | Genomes | Genetics).
3. Zheng, C., Ovaskainen, O., Roslin, T., Tack, A. J. M. 2015. Beyond metacommunity paradigms: habitat configuration, life-history and movements shape an herbivore community on oak. Under review.
4. Zheng, C., Boer, M. P., and Eeuwijk, F. A. 2014. A general modeling framework for genome ancestral origins in multi-parental populations. Genetics. 198: 87-101.
5. Zheng, C., Kuhner, M, and Thompson, E. A. 2014. Bayesian inference of local trees along chromosomes by the sequential Markov coalescent. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 78:279-292.
6. Zheng, C., Kuhner, M, and Thompson, E. A. 2014. Joint inference of identities by descent along multiple chromosomes from population samples. Journal of Computational Biology, 21: 185-200.
7. Brown, M. D., Glazner, C. G., Zheng, C., and Thompson, E. A. 2012. Inferring coancestry in population samples in the presence of linkage disequilibrium. Genetics, 190: 1447-1460.
8. Ovaskainen, O., Karhunen, M., Zheng, C., Cano J. M., and Merilä, J. 2011. A new method to uncover signatures of divergent and stabilizing selection in quantitative traits. Genetics, 189: 621-632.
   
9. Zheng, C. 2009. Modeling ecological and evolutionary processes in spatially structured populations . PhD dissertation.
10. Zheng, C. , Weisser, W.W., Härri, S.A. and Ovaskainen, O. 2009. Hierarchical metapopulation dynamics of two aphids species on a shared host plant. American Naturalist, 174: 331-341.
11. Zheng, C. , Ovaskainen, O., and Hanski, I. 2009. Modelling single nucleotide effects in the Pgi gene on dispersal in the Glanville fritillary butterfly: coupling of ecological and evolutionary dynamics. Philos. T. Roy. Soc. B. 364: 1519-1532.
12. Zheng, C. , Pennanen, J. and Ovaskainen, O. Modelling dispersal with diffusion and habitat selection: analytical results for highly fragmented landscapes. 2009. Ecological Modelling, 220: 1495-1505.
13. Zheng, C. , O. Ovaskainen, M. Saastamoinen, and I. Hanski. 2007. Age-dependent survival analyzed with Bayesian models of mark-recapture data. Ecology 88:1970-1976.
14. Zheng C. , Yeung C. K., Loy M. M. T., Xiao X. D. 2006. Quantum diffusion of H on Pt(111): step effects. Phys. Rev. Let. 97: 166101.
15. Zheng, C. , Yeung, C. K., Loy, M. M. T., and Xiao, X. D. 2004. Step effects and coverage dependence of hydrogen atom diffusion on Pt(111) surfaces. Phys. Rev. B 70: 205402.
16. Cai, L., Zheng, C., Man, K. L., Altman, M. S., Granato, E., Ala-Nissila, T., Ying, S. C., and Xiao, X. D. 2003. Step effects on diffusion near a substrate reconstructive phase transition: H on W(100). Phys. Rev. B 68: 075422.
17. Long, Y., Zheng, C., Luo, J. L., Cheng, Z. J., and He, Y. S. 2001. Heat capacity of the ternary compounds RENiC₂ (RE = Dy, Ho, Er, and Y). J. Appl. Phys. 89: 3523.