Education
  • Ph.D.     Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, 2014 - present
                        (visiting) Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, 2019 - present
  • B.S.       School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, CHINA, 2010 - 2014
Publications
  • ​Taverner A, Yang L, Barile Z, Lin B, Peng J, Pinharanda A, Rao A*, Roland B, Talsma A, Wei D, Petschenka G, Palladino M, Andolfatto P. Adaptive substitutions underlying cardiac glycoside insensitivity in insects exhibit epistasis in vivo. submitted. (biorxiv) (* undergraduates)
  • Yang L, Ravikanthachari N, Marino-Perez R, Deshmukh R, Wu M*, Rosenstein A*, Kunte K, Song H, Andolfatto P. Predictability in the evolution of Orthopteran cardenolide insensitivity. Philosophical transactions of Royal Society B. 374 (2019). (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0246) (* undergraduates)
  • Van Leeuwen, J. et al. Exploring genetic suppression interactions on a global scale.Science 354, (2016)
  • Yang L, Yang J, Nakamura N, Wu J. Difference of audiovisual integration between Alzheimer’s Disease Patients and Age-matched Healthy Controls: An fMRI Study. In Proceedings of 2013 International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, May 25-28, 2013, Beijing, China, 19-24.
Presentations
  • "Predictable Evolution of Orthopteran Cardenolide Resistance" Evolution, Montpellier, France, 2018
  • (Invited talk) "Predictable evolution of toxin resistance in insects and vertebrates". University of Gissen, Germany, 2017
  • “Potential mechanisms of toxin insensitivity in firefly femme fatale". Princeton-Penn-Rutgers-Columbia conference in evolution (PPRC), Columbia University, New York, NY, 2017
  • “The evolution of Na+,K+-ATPase in relation to predatory feeding and lucibufagins sequestration in fireflies”. International Firefly Symposium, Taipei City, Taiwan, 2017
  • “An fMRI Study of audiovisual integration issues in Alzheimer’s Disease”. ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, Beijing, China, 2013
Posters
  • “The evolution of Na+,K+-ATPase in relation to predatory feeding and lucibufagins sequestration in fireflies”. SMBE, Austin, TX, 2017
  • “Predictable evolution of Orthopteran cardenolide insensitivity”. Evolution in Philadelphia Conference, University of Pennsylvania, 2017
  • ​“Construction of Yeast Strains to be Screened for Bypass Suppressors of Essential Genes”. Research Oriented Elite Program Symposium, Beijing, China, 2013
Awards
  • Professional Development Travel Funds ($500), Princeton University, 2019
  • Scholarly Interdisciplinary Symposia, Seminars, and Workshops ($2000), Princeton University, 2019​
  • Travel awards ($500), the American Society of Naturalists, 2018
  • Professional Development Travel Funds ($500), Princeton University, 2018
  • Travel award ($1000), International Firefly Symposium, 2017
  • First Year Seed Grant ($2500), EEB, Princeton University, 2015
  • Scholarship of Research-Oriented Elite Program (CNY10000), Peking University, 2013
  • “Best Wiki” prize, International Genetically Engineering Machine Competition, MIT, 2012
  • Award for academic excellence, Peking University, 2011, 2012
  • Scholarship for honored freshmen (CNY5000), Peking University, 2010
Teaching Experiences
  • EEB 309 Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University. Prof. Bridgett vonHoldt. 2016 & 2017
  • EEB 311A Animal Behavior, Princeton University. Prof. James Gould. 2015 & 2017​
  • Biochemistry Topics Discussion, Peking University. Prof. Zengyi Chang, Prof. Wensheng Wei, 2012
Undergraduate mentees
  • Karen Zhang, Sophomore at Princeton University, “Parallel evolution of cardenolide resistance in amphibians and reptiles”, 2017
  • Marian Wu, Senior at EEB, Princeton University, Honors Thesis Research, “Adaptive gene expression regulation in milkweed bugs”, 2016-2017
  • Regina Visconti, Freshman at Tampa University, Princeton Biophysics REU program, “The chemistry of cardenolides and bufodenolides sequestered by plants and animals”, 2016
  • Adam Rosenstein, Senior at EEB, Princeton University, Senior Thesis Research, “Parallel evolution of cardenolide resistance across insect orders”, 2015-2016​
Undergraduate Research Experiences 
  • Research Assistant University of Toronto, 2013
          Department of Molecular Genetics, Advisor: Charlie Boone
          Research area: functional genomics; yeast
  • ​Research Assistant University of Okayama, 2013
          Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Advisor: Jinglong Wu
          Research area: fMRI data analysis, Alzheimer's disease
Outreach
  • Organizer of the Mid-Atlantic student conference in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton, 2019
  • Organizer of the student conference of Princeton-Penn-Rutgers-Columbia in Evolution, 2015-2018
  • Session chair of Princeton Research Day, 2017
  • Judge for Hopewell Elementary Science Fair, 2017