About the Lab

We are a Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Lab in the Department of Food Science and Technology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. We were in the Dept of Biological Sciences at NIU between 2012 and 2018.

Plant & Microbial Bioinformatics Genome Biology & Evolutionary Genomics Carbohydrate & Secondary Metabolism
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Funding

Our research is generously supported by NIH, USDA, NSF, and University of Nebraska–Lincoln funding.

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Openings

Graduate Students

We recruit graduate students from Food Science, Complex Biosystems/Big Data, and Biochemistry programs. Prospective students should be aware of that most PhD students have RAship. International students of non-native speaker must check here to learn about the English Proficiency requirement.

Students with biology, computer science, and statistics/mathematics background are all welcome to contact me at yyin@unl.edu with a letter of interest and information about your GPA, GRE, TOEFL (if internationals) scores.

Undergraduate Students

Students interested in bioinformatics or genomics research are welcome to reach out at yyin@unl.edu.