Andy Yuan

Andy Yuan

Academic achievement:

2015 - present PhD candidate. University of Western Australia (Australia)

2014 Master with Honours. University of Queensland (Australia)

Research area

Previously, I was doing research in the human genome and cancer at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB), Univesity of Queensland.

Now I'm applying the knowledge of bioinformatics and genomics to the study of plants at the University of Western Australia.

My research is using the improved long read sequencing and optical mapping to improve plant genome assembly and then performing structural variation detection. The major plants involved are Brassica napus and Trifolium subterraneum.

Publications

• Book chapters

1. Yuan Y, Scheben A, Chan CKK and Edwards D. (2016) Databases for wheat genomics and crop improvement. Methods in Molecular Biology, Springer (USA), (in press)

• Papers

1. Scheben A, Yuan Y, Edwards D. (2016) Advances in genomics for adapting crops to climate change. Current Plant Biology. 6: 2-10
2. Kaur P, Bayer P, Milec Z, Vrána J, Yuan Y, Appels R, Edwards D, Batley J, Nichols P, Erskine W, Doležel J. (2017) An advanced reference genome of Trifolium subterraneum L. reveals genes related to agronomic performance. Plant Biotechnology Journal. (accepted January 2017)

• Posters

1. Yuan Y, Bayer P, Edwards D. (2016) Improving crop genome assemblies using optical mapping and long read sequencing. Brassica Conference 2016 Melbourne, PO053

Contact:

Andy Yuan

PhD candidate (Applied Bioinformatics)

School of Plant Biology

University of Western Australia

Perth, WA, 6009

Australia

yuxuan.yuan@outlook.com