近年来采用分子系统生物学方法，以组学为核心手段解决地下鼠低氧适应与鸟类情绪神经调控等问题，取得了阶段性研究成果。发表SCI与CN核心期刊论文70余篇，近5年，以通讯作者身份在《Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A》（中科院一区，IF=9.423，2016a, b）发表学术论文2篇，《Int J Biol Macromol》（中科院二区，IF=3.909，2017，2018）发表学术论文2篇，《BMC genomics》（中科院二区，3.730，2018）发表学术论文1篇，撰写学术专著2部。承担国家科技支撑项目、国家自然基金等多项；荣获省教育厅一等奖2项，《地下鼠低氧适应分子机制及其抗癌特性研究》荣获河南省科技进步二等奖。承担科技支撑项目、国家自然基金项目以及省部级项目20余项。主讲《生物统计学》、《生物信息学研究进展》、《统计分析方法》等课程。

研究方向：

哺乳动物对地下黑暗低氧环境的适应与进化

鸽子情绪与运动调节的神经机制

近5年文章发表：

1. Sun   H, Dong Q, Wang C, Jiang M, Wang B, Wang   Z*. Evolution of circadian genes, PER, and, CRY, in subterranean rodents [J].   International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2018:S0141813018317963-.

2. Dong   Q, Shi L, Li Y, Jiang M, Sun H, Wang B, Cheng H, Zhang Y, Shao T, Shi Y, Wang Z*. Differential responses of   Lasiopodomys mandarinus and Lasiopodomys brandtii to chronic hypoxia: A   cross-species brain transcriptome analysis[J]. BMC Genomics, 2018, 19(1).

3. Cui   Z, Wang Z, Shao Q, David R, Lu J.   Macronutrient signature of dietary generalism in an ecologically diverse   primate in the wild [J]. Behavioral Ecology, 2018.

4. Sun   H, Zhang Y, Shi Y, Li Y. Li W. Wang Z*.    Evolution of the CLOCK and BMAL1 genes   in a subterranean rodent species (Lasiopodomys   mandarinus) [J]. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules,   2017, 109：932~940.

5. Li   K.*, Wang L., Knisbacher B. A., Xu Q., Levanon E. Y., Wang H.,   Frenkel-Morgenstern M., Tagore S., Fang X., Bazak L., Buchumenski I., Zhao   Y., Lövy M., Li X., Han L., Frenkel Z., Beiles A., Cao Y.*, Wang Z*, Nevo E*. Transcriptome,   genetic editing, and microRNA divergence substantiate sympatric speciation of   blind mole rat, Spalax. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences   (PNAS). 2016, 113(27):7584-7589.

6. Li   K.*, Wang H., Cai Z., Wang L., Xu Q., Lövy   M., Wang Z.*, Nevo E.* Sympatric   speciation of spiny mice, Acomys, unfolded transcriptomically at Evolution   Canyon, Israel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). 2016,   113(29):8254-8259.

国际会议学术报告：

1．Levonorgestrel depressed the expression of NADPH - Cytochrome P450   Oxidoreductase of plateau pikas. the 11th International Mammalogical Congress   in Belfast, The United Kingdom. 2013.8.11-16.

2．Mandarin voles: Its Adaptation to Life Underground. The 21^st   International Congress of Zoological at the University of Haifa, Israel.   2012.9.2-7.

3．Adaptation to Underground Life in Mandarin Voles (Lasiopodomys mandarinus). The 5^th    International Conference on Rodent   Biology and Management in Zhengzhou, China, 2014.9.25-29.

4．Levonorgestrel depressed the expression of Plateau pikas P450. The   5^th International Conference on Rodent Biology and Management in   Zhengzhou, China, 2014.9.25-29.