Bohao Fang

Bohao is broadly interested in the process and drivers of biodiversity. He is particularly interested in understanding how quickly and the mechanisms by which natural populations respond to selection pressures induced by environmental and demographic changes. As a postdoctoral fellow in the Edwards lab, he studies pan-genome and population genomics of the House Finch using long-read sequencing. He obtained his PhD in Merilä’s lab at the University of Helsinki, Finland, studying the phylogenomics and parallel freshwater adaptation of stickleback fishes.

Publications

1. Fang B, Edwards SV. (2024), Fitness consequences of structural variation inferred from a House Finch pangenome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 10.1073/pnas.2409943121

2. Zhang X, Fang B, Huang Y. (2023). Transcription factor binding sites are frequently under accelerated evolution in primates. Nature Communications, 14.1: 783.

3. Fang B, Momigliano P, Kahilainen KK, Merilä J. (2022), Allopatric origin of sympatric whitefish morphs with insights on the genetic basis of their reproductive isolation. Evolution. 10.1111/evo.14559

4. Fang B, Kemppainen P, Momigliano P, Merilä J. (2021), Population structure limits parallel evolution in sticklebacks. Molecular Biology and Evolution 38:4205-4221.

5. Fang B, Kemppainen P, Momigliano P, Feng X, Merilä J. (2020a), On the causes of geographically heterogeneous parallel evolution in sticklebacks. Nature Ecology and Evolution 4:1105-1115.

6. Fang B, Merilä J, Matschiner M, Momigliano P. (2020b), Estimating uncertainty in divergence times among three-spined stickleback clades using the multispecies coalescent. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 142:1055-7903.

7. Fang B, Merilä J, Ribeiro F, Alexandre CM, Momigliano P. (2018), Worldwide phylogeny of three-spined sticklebacks. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 127:613-625.