Zhikai comes from Inner Mongolia, one of the most beautiful provinces in Northern China. In 2011, he earned his BA from Nanjing Agricultural University in major of agronomy (Nanjing, Jiangsu, China). Then he started his research in rice molecular biology at MSstate University in America (Starkville, MS). In 2014, he joined the Schnable lab as a PhD student. His research focuses on plant phenomic and genomic data analysis.

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ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9963-8631

Papers As A Member Of The Schnable Lab:

• Meng X, Liang Z, Dai X, Zhang Y, Mahboub S, Ngu DW, Roston RL, Schnable JC “Predicting transcriptional responses to cold stress across plant species” bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2020.08.25.266635

• Jarquin D, Howard R, Liang Z, Gupta SK, Schnable JC, Crossa J (2020) “Enhancing hybrid prediction in pearl millet using genomic and/or multi-environment phenotypic information of inbreds.” Frontiers in Genetics doi: 10.3389/fgene.2019.01294

• Liang Z, Qiu Y, Schnable JC (2020) “Genome-phenome wide association in maize and arabidopsis identifies a common molecular and evolutionary signature” Molecular Plant doi: 10.1016/j.molp.2020.03.003 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/534503

• Dai X, Xu Z, Liang Z, Tu X, Zhong S, Schnable JC, Li P (2020) “Non-homology-based prediction of gene functions.” The Plant Genome doi: 10.1002/tpg2.20015 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/730473

• Wang R, Qiu Y, Zhou Y, Liang Z, Schnable JC (2020) “A high-throughput phenotyping pipeline for image processing and functional growth curve analysis.” Plant Phenomics doi: 10.34133/2020/7481687

• Liang Z, Schnable JC. (2018) “Functional Divergence Between Subgenomes and Gene Pairs After Whole Genome Duplications.” Molecular Plant doi: 10.1016/j.molp.2017.12.010

• Liang Z, Gupta SK, Yeh CT, Zhang Y, Ngu DW, Kumar R, Patil HT, Mungra KD, Yadav DV, Rathore A, Srivastava RK, Gupkta R, Yang J, Varshney RK, Schnable PS, Schnable JC. (2018) “Phenotypic data from inbred parents can improve genomic prediction in pearl millet hybrids.” G3: Genes Genomes Genetics doi: 10.1534/g3.118.200242

• Lai X,* Behera S,* Liang Z, Lu Y, Deogun JS, Schnable JC. (2017) “STAG-CNS: An order-aware conserved noncoding sequence discovery tool for arbitrary numbers of species.” Molecular Plant doi: 10.1016/j.molp.2017.05.010 bioRxiv preprint doi: 10.1101/120428

• Zhang Y, Ngu DW, Carvalho D, Liang Z, Qiu Y, Roston RL, Schnable JC. (2017) “Differentially regulated orthologs in sorghum and the subgenomes of maize.” The Plant Cell doi: 10.1105/tpc.17.00354 bioRxiv preprint doi: 10.1101/120303

• Liang Z, Pandey P, Stoerger V, Xu Y, Qiu Y, Ge Y, Schnable JC. (2017) “Conventional and hyperspectral time-series imaging of maize lines widely used in field trials.” GigaScience doi: 10.1093/gigascience/gix117 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/169045

• Liang Z, Schnable JC (2016) “RNA-seq based analysis of population structure within the maize inbred B73.” PLoS One doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157942 bioRxiv preprint doi: 10.1101/043513

• Chaudhury SD, Steorger V, Samal A, Schnable JC, Liang Z, Yu J. (2016) “Automated vegetative stage phenotyping analysis of maize plants using visible light images.” KDD: Data Science for Food, Energy, and Water San Francisco, CA, USA (Conference Proceedings)