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Our Culture
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We cherish passion, a flat hierarchy, working smart, independence, and your fit within our lab!
Hiring Postdocs and Research Assistants/Associates
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Experience in phylogenomic analysis required! Research directions: phylogenomic reconstruction and ancient gene flow detection
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Undergraduate Intern
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Algorithm track
Ph.D. Student
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Algorithm track & Bioinformatic track [Chinese nationals only due to regulations]
PostDoc
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Bioinformatic track
Research Assistant/Associate
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Algorithm track & Bioinformatic track
Visiting Scholar/Student
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Algorithm track & Bioinformatic track
people
Changtai Hu
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Chao Zhang
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Qiyi Yang
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Xin Jiang
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Yuanyuan Zhao
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Ziye Wang
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Zuizhi Chen
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publications
CASTER: Direct species tree inference from whole-genome alignments
Published in Science, 2025
Tool: CASTER
Recommended citation: Chao Zhang, Rasmus Nielsen, Siavash Mirarab, "CASTER: Direct species tree inference from whole-genome alignments." Science. (2025).
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ASTER: A Package for Large-scale Phylogenomic Reconstructions
Published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2025
Package: ASTER
Recommended citation: Chao Zhang, Rasmus Nielsen, Siavash Mirarab, "ASTER: A Package for Large-scale Phylogenomic Reconstructions." Molecular Biology and Evolution. (2025).
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WASTER: Practical de novo phylogenomics from low-coverage short reads
Published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2026
Tool: WASTER
Recommended citation: Chao Zhang, Rasmus Nielsen, "WASTER: Practical de novo phylogenomics from low-coverage short reads." Molecular Biology and Evolution. (2026).
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research
Research Interest: Software Development
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Algorithm track
Research Interest: Phylogenetic Analysis
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Bioinformatic track
teaching
Bioinformatics Algorithms in Evolutionary Biology
Course, Peking University, School of Life Sciences, 2026
Algorithm course for beginners
Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics
Course, Peking University, School of Life Sciences, 2026
Advanced course for phylogenetic and evolutionary analysis
tools
CASTER
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Direct species tree inference from whole-genome alignment
[Package] ASTER
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Package: Accurate Species Tree EstimatoR
[Package] ASTER2
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Faster & New functions & Comprehensive logging
D* statistic
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Interspecific hybridization detection
WASTER
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Practical de novo phylogenomics from low-coverage short reads
