User:LMatlick/Li Zhao

Li Zhao, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Rockefeller University, where she has worked since 2017 in the fields of Genetics and Genomics, Organismal Biology and Evolution, and Physical, Mathematical, and Computational Biology. Dr. Zhao received her B.S. in Biology, from Inner Mongolia University, China, in 2006, and her Ph. D from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. She completed her postdoctoral research at the University of California, Davis, between 2011-2017.

She is Head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics (the Zhao Lab) at the Rockefeller University, which is focused on the mechanisms that contribute to the diversity of species, and the molecular changes underlying phenotypic divergence and adaptation.