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 major research is using the improved long read sequencing and optical mapping to improve plant genome assemblies and then performing structural variation detection between different plant cultivars. The plants involved are Brassica napus, Triticum aestivum and Trifolium subterraneum.
Awards and Prizes
2015: Scholarship for International Research Fees by the University of Western Austraila
2015: Postgraduate scholarship by the China Scholarship Council.
Publications
- Book chapters
- 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
- Scheben A, Yuan Y, Edwards D. (2016) Advances in genomics for adapting crops to climate change. Current Plant Biology. 6: 2-10
- 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
- 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
