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Dr. Yu obtained his Ph.D. from University of Minnesota in 2003. He joined the faculty in the Department of Agronomy at Kansas State University in August 2006. At K-State, he is starting a lab in Genetic and Genomics for Crop Improvement, where developing novel methods of utilizing cutting edge genetic and genomic tools for complex trait dissection and plant breeding is the focus. Research in this lab spans from association mapping  methods, plant breeding methodology, molecular mapping of complex traits (e.g., drought tolerance, salt tolerance, grain quality), to bioinformatics across multiple species.

Dr. Yu is part of a team at K-State Center for Sorghum Improvement and K-State Sorghum Translational Genomics Program.

UPDATE (06/06/2009): Zhu and Yu 2009 in Genetics July issue coming soon. A systematic examination of genetic relationships in association mapping and corresponding methods, dimension determination, non-metric multidimentional scaling, … Sorry for a long story.

UPDATE (06/01/2009): GRA available, see Employment.