个人简介

周扬，男，河北保定人。华中农业大学副教授，硕士生导师。2017年博士毕业被华中农业大学引进为副研究员，现为华中农业大学动物科技学院农业动物遗传育种与繁殖教育部重点实验室固定研究人员。2014-2016年在美国农业部和约翰霍普金斯大学进行博士联合培养。主要从事牛优异遗传资源挖掘和应用研究；利用计算机处理生物大数据，解析决定牛经济性状的基因组结构变异及其发生机理，聚焦牛体脂分布研究，降低廉价脂肪沉积，提高高档牛肉比例，综合提高牛经济效益。兼任中国畜牧兽医学会高级会员、畜禽遗传标记学分会理事、Frontier in Genetics等杂志客座编辑。主持或完成国家自然科学基金、湖北省自然科学基金等项目，并参与十三五重点研发和十三五重大专项等项目。参与编写本科生或研究生教材2部，参与编写专著3部，其中英文专著1部。积极开展国内外合作，以牛、羊、猪等家畜为研究对象在Nature Genetics等杂志发表42篇SCI论文，其中以第一作者或通讯中作者以牛为研究对象在BMC Biology、Gigasicence、DNA research等领域专业期刊发表18篇SCI论文；获批或申请专利5件。所研究的牛CNV-GWAS研究获美国农业部东北区墙报展览第一名。

教育经历

2014.12 – 2016.12, 美国农业部，动物基因组和改良研究实验室，联合培养2年，并于2016年02月开始 2/5时间在约翰霍普金斯大学公共卫生学院合作培养
2013.09 – 2017.06, 西北农林科技大学，动物遗传育种与繁殖专业毕业，农学博士
2011.09 – 2013.06, 西北农林科技大学，动物遗传育种与繁殖专业，硕士阶段
2008.09 – 2012.06, 西北农林科技大学，动物科学专业毕业，农学学士（基地班，第四年开始硕士阶段）

工作经历

2020.10 – 至今，华中农业大学副教授
2017.07 – 2020.10，华中农业大学副研究员。

研究领域

牛优异遗传资源挖掘与应用，牛功能基因组与生物信息学

科研成果

A著作类
《动物繁殖学》、《细胞生物学》、《中国黄牛遗传学》、《肉牛快速育肥与疾病防治》、《Copy Number Variation》
B论文类
近5年发表SCI论文
1.Yang Zhou*#, Shuli Liu*, Yan Hu*, Lingzhao Fang, Yahui Gao, Han Xia, Steven G. Schroeder, Benjamin D. Rosen, Erin E. Connor, Cong Jun Li, Ransom L. Baldwin, John B. Cole, Curtis P. Van Tassell, Liguo Yang, Li Ma, and George E. Liu#. Comparative Whole Genome DNA Methylation Profiling across Cattle Tissues Reveals Global and Tissue-Specific Methylation Patterns. BMC Biology. (2020).18:85.
2.Yang Zhou, Erin E. Connor, Derek M. Bickhart, Congjun Li, Ransom L. Baldwin, Steven G. Schroeder, Benjamin D. Rosen, Liguo Yang, Curtis P. Van Tassell, and George E. Liu#. Comparative Whole Genome DNA Methylation Profiling of Cattle Sperm and Somatic Tissues Reveals Striking Hypomethylated Patterns in Sperm. GigaScience. (2018) 7(5):1–13.
3.Yang Zhou*, Botong Shen*, Jicai Jiang, Abinash Padhi, Ki Eun Park, Adam Oswalt, Charles G. Sattler, Bhanu P. Telugu, Hong Chen, John B. Cole, George E. Liu#, and Li Ma#. 2018. Construction of PRDM9 Allele-Specific Recombination Maps in Cattle Using Large-Scale Pedigree Analysis and Genome-Wide Single Sperm Genomics. DNA Research. (2018) 25(2):183–94.
4.Yan Hu, Han Xia, Mingxun Li, Chang Xu, Xiaowei Ye, Ruixue Su, Mai Zhang, Oyekanmi Nash, Tad S. Sonstegard, Liguo Yang, George E. Liu#, and Yang Zhou#. Comparative Analyses of Copy Number Variations between Bos Taurus and Bos Indicus. BMC Genomics. (2020) 21(1):1–11.
5.Yang Zhou, Erin E. Connor, George R. Wiggans, Yongfang Lu, Robert J. Tempelman, Steven G. Schroeder, Hong Chen, and George E. Liu. Genome-Wide Copy Number Variant Analysis Reveals Variants Associated with 10 Diverse Production Traits in Holstein Cattle. BMC Genomics. (2018) 19(1):1–9.
6.Yang Zhou, Lingyang Xu, Derek M. Bickhart, El Hamidi Abdel Hay, Steven G. Schroeder, Erin E. Connor, Leeson J. Alexander, Tad S. Sonstegard, Curtis P. Van Tassell, Hong Chen#, and George E. Liu#. Reduced Representation Bisulphite Sequencing of Ten Bovine Somatic Tissues Reveals DNA Methylation Patterns and Their Impacts on Gene Expression. BMC Genomics. (2016) 17(1):1–11.
7.Yang Zhou*, Yuri T. Utsunomiya#, Lingyang Xu, El Hamidi abdel Hay, Derek M. Bickhart, Pamela Almeida Alexandre, Benjamin D. Rosen, Steven G. Schroeder, Roberto Carvalheiro, Haroldo Henrique de Rezende Neves, Tad S. Sonstegard, Curtis P. Van Tassell, José Bento Sterman Ferraz, Heidge Fukumasu, Jose Fernando Garcia, and George E. Liu#. Genome-Wide CNV Analysis Reveals Variants Associated with Growth Traits in Bos Indicus. BMC Genomics. (2016) 17(1):1–9.
8.Yang Zhou*, Yuri T. Utsunomiya, Lingyang Xu, El Hamidi Abdel Hay, Derek M. Bickhart, Tad S. Sonstegard, Curtis P. Van Tassell, Jose Fernando Garcia#, and George E. Liu#. Comparative Analyses across Cattle Genders and Breeds Reveal the Pitfalls Caused by False Positive and Lineage-Differential Copy Number Variations. Scientific Reports. (2016) 6:1–9.
9.Yaran Zhang, Yan Hu, Xiuge Wang, Qiang Jiang, Han Zhao, Jinpeng Wang, Zhihua Ju, Liguo Yang, Yaping Gao, Xiaochao Wei, Jiachen Bai, Yang Zhou#, and Jinming Huang#. Population Structure, and Selection Signatures Underlying High-Altitude Adaptation Inferred From Genome-Wide Copy Number Variations in Chinese Indigenous Cattle. Frontier in Genetics. (2019).10:1404.
10.Fang, Lingzhao*, Yang Zhou*, Shuli Liu, Jicai Jiang, Derek M. Bickhart, J. Daniel, Bingjie Li, Steven G. Schroeder, Benjamin D. Rosen, John B. Cole, P. Van Tassell, Li Ma#, and George E. Liu#. Comparative Analyses of Sperm DNA Methylomes among Human, Mouse and Cattle Provide Insights into Epigenomic Evolution and Complex Traits. Epigenetics. (2019) 2294.
11.Liu, Mei*, Yang Zhou*, Benjamin D. Rosen, Curtis P. Van Tassell, Alessandra Stella, Gwenola Tosser-Klopp, Rachel Rupp, Isabelle Palhière, Licia Colli, Brian Sayre, Paola Crepaldi, Lingzhao Fang, Gábor Mészáros, Hong Chen, and George E. Liu#. Diversity of Copy Number Variation in the Worldwide Goat Population. Heredity. (2019) 122(5):636-646.

科研项目

主要奖励

1. 美国农业部东北区第26届科技墙报展览第一名
2.第24届国际动植物基因组大会（PAG）FAANG奖学金
3. 陕西省遗传学会研究生论坛一等奖
4.博士国家奖学金
6.硕士国家奖学金