Qiyun Zhu
Assistant Professor at Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolQiyun Zhu is an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University with 13 years of experience probing microbial evolution and gut microbiomes to better understand gastrointestinal diseases such as diarrhea. Trained as an evolutionary biologist (PhD, SUNY Buffalo), she combines wet-clinic work on human clinical samples with computational expertise in metagenomics—taxonomic profiling, de novo assembly, phylogenetics, and functional analysis—to trace host–parasite coevolution and horizontal gene transfer. Her research emphasizes the spread of pathogenicity factors, including antibiotic resistance genes, and she develops software and databases to accelerate pathogen discovery. Having transitioned from postdoctoral roles at UC San Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute, she uniquely blends deep evolutionary theory with practical genomics pipelines applied to real-world clinical questions.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General at Fudan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Evolutionary Biology at State University of New York at Buffalo
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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2answers
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Github Skills (87)
package-management10
python10
classifier10
genomes10
microbiome10
prediction10
genomics10
computational-biology10
clustering10
binning10
scikit10
ncbi10
phylogeny10
bioconda10
genome10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
qiyunlab/binarena
Jan 2019 - Jul 2022
BinaRena: Interactive Visualization and Binning of Metagenomic Contigs
Contributions:27 reviews, 227 commits, 115 PRs in 3 years 6 months
interactive-visualizationmetagenomicsbinningclusteringcontigs
scikit-bio/scikit-bio.github.io
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Website of the scikit-bio project
Contributions:1 review, 12 PRs, 141 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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