PI, Bio-X institutes at SJTU. My research involves Bioinformatics, Fungal Pathogens, Comparative/Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology. Researches are published in Cell Syst., Cell Rep., PLoS Biol., Mol. Biol. Evol., Nat. Rev. Genet., etc. International students are welcome to apply for my lab's Ph.D. programs.
Education and Research Experience
PI, Bio-X institutes at SJTU, Shanghai, China.
Postdoctoral Researcher at UMich, USA.
Ph.D. at Zhejiang Unviersity, China.
PI, Bio-X institutes at SJTU, Shanghai, China.
Postdoctoral Researcher at UMich, USA.
Ph.D. at Zhejiang Unviersity, China.
Research Interests
Genome-wide mechanism of eukaryotic transcription an...
Virulence evolution of pathogenic fungi
Human disease
Genome-wide mechanism of eukaryotic transcription and translation and its significance in species evolution.
Virulence evolution of pathogenic fungi
Human disease
Research Interests
Genome-wide mechanism of eukaryotic transcription and translation and its si...
Genome-wide mechanism of eukaryotic transcription and translation and its significance in species evolution.
Virulence evolution of pathogenic fungi
Virulence evolution of pathogenic fungi
Human disease
Human disease
Selected Publications
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Zhang, J., and Xu, C. (2022) Gene product diversity: adaptive or not? Trends in Genetics, In press
Xu, C., and Zhang, J. (2020). Mammalian alternative translation initiation is mostly nonadaptive. Molecular Biology and Evolution. Mar 7. pii: msaa063. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msaa063.
Xu, C., and Zhang, J. (2020) A different perspective on alternative cleavage and polyadenylation. Nature Review Genetics., doi: 10.1038/s41576-019-0198-z
Xu, C., and Zhang, J. (2018). Alternative Polyadenylation of Mammalian Transcripts Is Generally Deleterious, Not Adaptive. Cell systems. 6 (6), 734-742.e4