2012年获华中农业大学学士学位；2014年获华中农业大学硕士学位；2017年获东北农业大学博士学位；2018年-2019年，中国科学院遗传与发育研究所博士后；2020年-2022年，中国农业科学院深圳农业基因组研究所任副研究员；2022年12月-至今，中国科学院植物研究所工作。
研究成果以第一作者（含共同）身份发表在Nature、Nature Genetics、Briefings in Bioinformatics等期刊。
主要研究方向
1.多倍体饲草的演化与驯化。利用群体遗传学分析揭示六倍体燕麦驯化及遗传改良过程中重要性状的形成及其演化规律；
2.多倍体饲草复杂性状遗传调控解析及育种应用。开发多倍体全基因组关联分析模型，解析饲草重要性状的遗传基础，促进饲草基因组选择育种。
主持和参加的科研项目
[1]“创建生态草牧业科技体系”，中国科学院A类先导专项（2020-2025）；任务负责人
代表性论文
2022
Zhou Y#, Zhang Z#, Bao Z#, Li H, Lyu Y, Zan Y, Wu Y, Cheng L, Fang Y, Wu K, Zhang J, Lyu H, Lin T, Gao Q, Saha S, Mueller L, Fei Z, Städler T, Xu S, Zhang Z, Speed D, Huang S*. 2022. Graph pangenome captures missing heritability and empowers tomato breeding. Nature, 606: 527-534
Tang D, Jia Y, Zhang J, Li H, Cheng L, Wang P, Bao Z, Liu Z, Feng S, Zhu X, Li D, Zhu G, Wang H, Zhou Y, Zhou Y, Bryan GJ, Buell CR, Zhang C, Huang S*. 2022. Genome evolution and diversity of wild and cultivated potatoes. Nature, 606: 535-541
Zhang J, Tang Y, Pu X, Qiu X, Wang J, Li T, Yang Z, Zhou Y, Chang Y, Liang J, Zhang H, Deng G, Long H*. 2022. Genetic and transcriptomic dissection of an artificially induced paired spikelets mutant of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 135: 2543-2554
2020
Zhou Y#, Zhao X#, Li Y, Xu J, Bi A, Kang L, Xu D, Chen H, Wang Y, Wang YG, Liu S, Jiao C, Lu H, Wang J, Yin C, Jiao Y*, Lu F*. 2020. Triticum population sequencing provides insights into wheat adaptation. Nature Genetics, 52: 1412-1422
Wu Y, Lin F, Zhou Y, Wang J, Sun S, Wang B, Zhang Z, Li G, Lin X, Wang X, Sun Y, Dong Q, Xu C, Gong L, Wendel JF, Zhang Z, Liu B*. 2020. Genomic mosaicism due to homoeologous exchange generates extensive phenotypic diversity in nascent allopolyploids. National Science Review, 8: nwaa277
Tang Y, Li Z, Wang C, Liu Y, Yu H, Wang A, Zhou Y*. 2020. LDkit: a parallel computing toolkit for linkage disequilibrium analysis. BMC Bioinformatics, 21: 461
2019
Huang M, Liu X, Zhou Y, Summers RM, Zhang Z*. 2019. BLINK: a package for the next level of genome-wide association studies with both individuals and markers in the millions. Gigascience, 8: giy154
2018
Jernigan KL, Godoy JV, Huang M, Zhou Y, Morris CF, Garland-Campbell KA, Zhang Z, Carter AH*. 2018. Genetic dissection of end-use quality traits in adapted soft white winter wheat. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9: 271
2017
Zhou Y, Vales MI, Wang A, Zhang Z*. 2017. Systematic bias of correlation coefficient may explain negative accuracy of genomic prediction. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 18: 744-753
2016
Li Z, Hu G, Liu X, Zhou Y, Li Y, Zhang X, Yuan X, Zhang Q, Yang D, Wang T, Zhang Z*. 2016. Transcriptome sequencing identified genes and gene ontologies associated with early freezing tolerance in maize. Frontiers in Plant Science, 7: 1477
