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Hi I'm
Dr CJ Yang
- Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
- Location: Edinburgh Campus
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Expertise:
- Agriculture, Crops and Soils
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in plant quantitative genetics. Most of my work is computational with a focus on statistics and simulations. My projects centre on developing novel methodologies for breeding programme improvement.
I was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Technical University of Munich. I received my PhD in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and my BSc in Biotechnology and Mathematics from Indiana University Bloomington.
In my free time I enjoy exploring foods with familiar and unfamiliar tastes.
Areas of expertise and interests
- Agriculture, Crops and Soils
I'm currently working on
- epistasis (gene interaction) mapping using a variance-based test approach
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