The native form of this personal name is Yang Ziheng. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Ziheng Yang
Born
1 November 1964 (1964-11) (age 59)
Gansu, China
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Alma mater
Beijing Agricultural University
Known for
Models of DNA sequence evolution and methods of statistical inference in molecular evolution and phylogenetics
Awards
Darwin–Wallace Medal (2023) Frink Medal (2010) Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2009)
SSB Presidents' Award for Lifetime Achievement (2008)
Fellow of the Royal Society (2006) Young Investigator’s Prize, American Society of Naturalists (1995)
Scientific career
Fields
molecular evolution molecular phylogenetics population genetics computational biology computational statistics Markov chain Monte Carlo
Institutions
University College London Beijing Agricultural University
Website
abacus.gene.ucl.ac.uk
Ziheng Yang FRS (Chinese: 杨子恒; born 1 November 1964) is a Chinese biologist. He holds the R.A. Fisher Chair of Statistical Genetics[1] at University College London,[2] and is the Director of R.A. Fisher Centre for Computational Biology at UCL. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006.[2]
^"Genetics, Evolution and Environment". Ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-06-23.
^ ab‘YANG, Prof. Ziheng’, Who's Who 2011, A & C Black, 2011; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2010; online edn, Oct 2010 accessed 11 May 2011(subscription required)
ZihengYang FRS (Chinese: 杨子恒; born 1 November 1964) is a Chinese biologist. He holds the R.A. Fisher Chair of Statistical Genetics at University College...
rates of mutation has been conducted for many years. A recent paper by ZihengYang and Rasmus Nielsen compared various methods and developed a new modeling...
Galápagos Islands. Her supervisors were Sandra Knapp, James Mallet and ZihengYang. She has been married to German botanist Johannes Vogel, former Keeper...
phylogenetics in the 1990s by three independent groups: Bruce Rannala and ZihengYang in Berkeley, Bob Mau in Madison, and Shuying Li in University of Iowa...
Dunn; Eric J. Schmidt; Matt Friedman; Robert K. Ho; Victoria E. Prince; ZihengYang; Mark G. Thomas & Michael I. Coates (February 2007). "A New Time-Scale...
Dunn; Eric J. Schmidt; Matt Friedman; Robert K. Ho; Victoria E. Prince; ZihengYang; Mark G. Thomas; Michael I. Coates (February 2007). "A New Time-Scale...
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view supported by molecular phylogenetic studies by Anne D. Yoder and ZihengYang in 2004, which showed that lemurs split from lorises approximately 62...
Inoue, Jun; Hasegawa, Masami; Asher, Robert J.; Donoghue, Philip C. J.; Yang, Ziheng (7 September 2012). "Phylogenomic datasets provide both precision and...
Matteo; Nascimento, Fabrícia F.; Carlisle, Emily; Asher, Robert J.; Yang, Ziheng; Donoghue, Philip C.J.; dos Reis, Mario (2022). "A species-level timeline...
Matteo; Nascimento, Fabrícia F.; Carlisle, Emily; Asher, Robert J.; Yang, Ziheng; Donoghue, Philip C.J.; dos Reis, Mario (2022). "A species-level timeline...
Matteo; Nascimento, Fabrícia F.; Carlisle, Emily; Asher, Robert J.; Yang, Ziheng; Donoghue, Philip C.J.; dos Reis, Mario (2022). "A species-level timeline...
Matteo; Nascimento, Fabrícia F.; Carlisle, Emily; Asher, Robert J.; Yang, Ziheng; Donoghue, Philip C.J.; dos Reis, Mario (2022). "A species-level timeline...
(2015) Richard Winpenny (2009) Philip J. Withers (2002) Tim Wright (2015) ZihengYang Xin Yao (2012) Nikolay I. Zheludev Florian Markowetz (2017) Smaglik,...
Edwards, Dianne; Kenrick, Paul; Pressel, Silvia; Wellman, Charles H.; Yang, Ziheng; Schneider, Harald; Donoghue, Philip C. J. (2018-03-06). "The timescale...
J. D. Halliday; Mario dos Reis; Asif U. Tamuri; Henry Ferguson-Gow; ZihengYang; Anjali Goswami (2019). "Rapid morphological evolution in placental mammals...
Matteo; Nascimento, Fabrícia F.; Carlisle, Emily; Asher, Robert J.; Yang, Ziheng; Donoghue, Philip C.J.; dos Reis, Mario (2022). "A species-level timeline...
Clark; Dianne Edwards; Paul Kenrick; Silvia Pressel; Charles H. Wellman; ZihengYang; Harald Schneider; Philip C. J. Donoghue (2018). "The timescale of early...
West Nicholas John White Alan Geoffrey Wilson David Phillip Woodruff ZihengYang Kenneth Joseph Arrow Edouard Brézin Paul Josef Crutzen Daan Frenkel Roger...
Huo Jianqi and starring Chen Bolin, Tong Yao, Morning Tzu-Yi Mo, and Tony Yang. The film is based on the Japanese novel of the same name by Chikayo Tashiro...
Inoue, Jun; Hasegawa, Masami; Asher, Robert J.; Donoghue, Philip C. J.; Yang, Ziheng (7 September 2012). "Phylogenomic datasets provide both precision and...
Matteo; Nascimento, Fabrícia F.; Carlisle, Emily; Asher, Robert J.; Yang, Ziheng; Donoghue, Philip C.J.; dos Reis, Mario (2022). "A species-level timeline...
Schmidt, Eric J.; Friedman, Matt; Ho, Robert K.; Prince, Victoria E.; Yang, Ziheng; Thomas, Mark G.; Coates, Michael I. (2006). "A new time-scale for ray-finned...
Matteo; Nascimento, Fabrícia F.; Carlisle, Emily; Asher, Robert J.; Yang, Ziheng; Donoghue, Philip C.J.; dos Reis, Mario (2022). "A species-level timeline...
Matteo; Nascimento, Fabrícia F.; Carlisle, Emily; Asher, Robert J.; Yang, Ziheng; Donoghue, Philip C.J.; dos Reis, Mario (2022). "A species-level timeline...
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