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Huabin Zhao
Professor & Chair of Department
College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University
299 Bayi Road, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
Tel: (86) 27 6875 3526; Fax: (86) 27 6875 2397
Email: huabinzhao@whu.edu.cn
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In 2009, I received my PhD in ecology at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From Sept. 2009 to Jan. 2012, I worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Michigan, USA. In Feb. 2012, I joined College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University and started my lab as a Principal Investigator (Professor of zoology and/or ecology).
I teach zoology and study animals at Wuhan University in the central China. I am broadly interested in molecular evolution and comparative genomics in animals. We are most familiar with mammals and birds in general, and bats in particular, but we are open to study other animals in rare cases. Previously, I worked on vision and taste genes in bats, giant panda, mole rats, and penguins. Currently, my research interests are to (1) decipher the evolutionary processes that have generated enormous diversity of form and behaviour well-known in nature, using bats as a model study group, (2) develop or test evolutionary hypotheses on the evolution of sensory systems across vertebrates, using vertebrate taste receptor genes as a model study system.
Zoology, Ecology, Evolution, Genetics, Genomics, Phylogenetics
Molecular Evolution, Evolutionary Genomics, Molecular Ecology, Vertebrates, Bats, Mammals, Birds, Diet, Taste, Olfaction, Adaptation, Immunity, Biodiversity, Speciation, Tibet
Department of Ecology, College of Life Sciences,
Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Tel: +86 27 6875 3526; Fax: +86 27 6875 2397
Email: huabinzhao@whu.edu.cn
1. Department of Ecology, Tibetan Centre for Ecology and Conservation at WHU-TU, Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
2. Research Center for Ecology, College of Science, Tibet University, Lhasa 850000, China
