Junli Zhang
Assistant Professor In Small Grains Genetics at Texas A&M AgriLife Research
Amarillo, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJunli Zhang is an assistant professor and plant geneticist with 12 years of experience specializing in wheat and small grains improvement through molecular genetics and genomics. Based in Amarillo, Texas, he leads research to boost yield, quality, and stress resilience for regional production, translating GWAS, fine-mapping, and QTL work into practical germplasm and methods. His academic path spans a PhD in Plant Science and postdoctoral work on wheat water-use efficiency, reflecting a strong quantitative and physiological foundation. Comfortable with coding and computational analysis, he bridges wet-lab genetics with bioinformatics to accelerate breeding outcomes. Colleagues describe him as research-driven but applied-focused, committed to delivering tangible benefits for agricultural systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Plant Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Plant Science at University of IdahoBS Agronomy, BS Agronomy at Northwest A&F University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (55)
bioinformatics10
genomics10
duplication9
adapter9
webapp9
illumina8
webassembly8
sequencing8
overlap8
fastq8
samtools8
filter8
javascript8
bedtools8
bam7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pinbo/RgeneticMap
Feb 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
pinbo/msa2snp
Mar 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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