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Zheng Wang is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, and is also affiliated with the Yale Institute for Global Health and Townsend Lab. His research focuses on fungal systematics, evolutionary biology, and genomics, with expertise in fungal taxonomy and classification.
His educational background includes:
- PhD from Clark University (2006)
- MSc from Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing (1997)
Dr. Wang's research spans fungal taxonomy, evolutionary biology, genetics and genomics, and fungus-host associations. He has extensively studied various fungi including Neurospora crassa, Coccidioides, Trichoderma, Fusarium, Metarhizium, Cordyceps, and Aspergillus species, investigating how they interact with hosts and respond to environmental factors during different life stages. His work explores how these responses relate to the evolution of pathogenesis in fungal pathogens, with implications for public health.
His recent publications reveal a strong emphasis on fungal evolutionary genomics and transcriptomics, particularly in Sordariomycetes. His research examines gene expression evolution, lineage-specific elements, transcriptional regulation during fungal development, and secondary metabolism. A notable discovery involves the relationship between fungal pathogens and tick-borne Lyme disease, leading to new approaches for modeling fungal roles within holobiome systems.
Dr. Wang has served as a reviewer for more than 40 scientific journals and held editorial appointments including associate editor of Mycosystema and Mycology, and review editor of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
His research has been supported by NIH and NSF grants, including work on the Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life project. He maintains extensive collaborations, particularly with Dr. Jeffrey Townsend, focusing on fungal evolutionary genomics and its applications for understanding pathogenesis and developing biocontrol strategies.
