Yunzhe Jiang

Greetings! I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Program of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CB&B) at Yale.
I am supervised by Mark B. Gertsein, the Albert L. Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics. I have a broad interest in functional genomics, particularly understanding the roles of non-coding regions in the human genome using multi-omics data.
Prior to embarking on the exciting journey at Yale, I graduated with distinction from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where I majored in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics. Guided by Professor Chaochun Wei, my undergraduate thesis concentrated on investigating horizontal gene transfer (HGT) events within the rice pan-genome.
I also worked as a research assistant in the Scott Lab at the University of Toronto in 2018, focusing on the early cardiac lineage specification in zebrafish.
News
04/10/2025 | Attended the dGTEx and NHP-dGTEx Spring 2025 Steering Meeting in Boston. |
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10/17/2024 | Passed my Qualifying Exam with distinction! |
06/01/2024 | Attended the ESHG Conference 2024 and the 2024 Spring HGSVC Meeting in Berlin. |
05/28/2024 | Passed my pre-Qualifying Exam! |
11/06/2023 | Contributed poster “Identification of horizontal gene transfer in Oryza sativa pan-genome” at SMBE Satellite Meeting on De Novo Gene Birth. |