Yen-Wen Wang

Yen-Wen Wang is a postdoctoral associate at the Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University from 2022. He completed his Ph.D. degree in Botany from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2022, under the advisement of Anne Pringle. His dissertation, entitled "Phylogenomics and population genomics of <i>Amanita</i>: the evolution of new genes, reproductive systems and mitochondria", describes evolutionary genetic novelties enabling mutualistic relationships as well as an unsuspected unisexual reproduction in an invasive fungal species. His postdoctoral research involves the evolutionary genomics and transcriptomics of Ascomycetes fungi, with a focus on mycoparasites and their application.