Jinliang Yang
Gardner Professor Of Agronomy at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolJinliang Yang is a Gardner Professor of Agronomy at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with 12 years of experience bridging quantitative genetics and large-scale biological data integration. He leads a lab that integrates phenomics, genomics, transcriptomics, methylomics, and functional annotations to strengthen GWAS and genomic selection, translating complex datasets into actionable breeding insights. Trained with a PhD in Genetics from Iowa State and prior postdoctoral work at UC Davis, he combines rigorous statistical approaches with hands-on data hacking to disentangle biological questions. Based in Lincoln, Nebraska, he frames plant genetics problems through both experimental and computational lenses, often leveraging cross-omic synthesis that many labs still treat separately. He is also a committed mentor and father, balancing academic leadership with practical tool development that accelerates trait discovery and selection.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Genetics at Iowa State UniversityMS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, MS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at China Agricultural University
Chinese
Github Skills (15)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
yangjl/Heterosis-GWAS
Dec 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:49 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 4 months
yangjl/phasing
Jul 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:185 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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