YING CHANG

YING CHANG

YING CHANG

Assistant Professor

ying.chang@yale-nus.edu.sg

Research Areas

Fungal evolution and genomics

Research Interests

Kingdom Fungi is one of major Eukaryotic lineages dominating today’s world. They play vital roles in the ecosystems, functioning as decomposers, mutualistic symbionts and detrimental pathogens etc. Yet much of their diversity remains unexplored and their ecological functions are not fully understood. I am interested in understanding the ecological roles of fungi using genomic approaches and in exploring the fungal diversity in SE Asia, particularly the fungi found in marine environments and their genomic adaptions.

Publication List

  1. Chang, Y., S. Sekimoto, D. Rochon, Y. Wang., I. Grigoriev, J. E. Stajich, J. W. Spatafora. Phylogenomic analyses of Olpidium reveal hard polytomies of the backbone of Kingdom Fungi. 2021. Scientific Reports 11: 1-12.
  2. Li Y., J. Steenwk, Y. Chang, Y. Wang, T. Y. James, J. E. Stajich, J. W. Spatafora, M. Groeneward, C.            W. Dunn, C. T. Hittinger, X-X Shen, A. Rokas. A genome-scale phylogeny of Fungi: insights into early evolution, radiations, and the relationship between taxonomy and phylogeny. 2021. Current Biology 31: 1653-1665.
  3. Tabima, J. F., I. Trautman, Y. Chang, Y. Wang, Y. Wang, S. Mondo, A. Kuo, A. Salamov, I. V. Grigoriev, J.E. Stajich, J.W. Spatafora. Phylogenomic analyses of non-Dikarya fungi support horizontal gene transfer driving diversification of secondary metabolism in the amphibian gastrointestinal symbiont, Basidiobolus. 2020. G3: Genes, Genomes and Genetics 120: 3417-3433.
  4. Myers J. M., A. E. Bonds, R. A. Clemons, N. A. Thapa, D. R. Simmons, D. Carter-House, J. Ortanez, P. Liu, A. Miralles-Durán, A. Desirò, J. E. Longcore, G. Bonito, J. E. Stajich, J. W. Spatafora, Y. Chang, L. M. Corrochano, A. Gryganskyi, I. V. Grigoriev, T. Y. James. 2020. Survey of Early-Diverging Lineages of Fungi Reveals Abundant and Diverse Mycoviruses. mBio 11: e02027-20.
  5. Bell, D., W. K. Gerelle, Q. Lin, S. Joya, Y. Chang, Z. N. Taylor, C. J. Rothfels, A. Larsson, J. C. Villarreal, F-W Li, L. Pokorny, P. Szövényi, B. Crandall-Stotler, L. deGeronimo, D. Beerling, M. Deyholos, M. von Konrat, S. Ellis, T. Chen, D. Stevenson, J. D. Palmer and S. W. Graham.  2020. Organellomic datasets confirm a cryptic consensus on (unrooted) land-plant relationships, and provide new insights into bryophyte molecular evolution. 2020. American Journal of Botany 107: 91-115.
  6. One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes (1KP) Initiative. One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants. 2019. Nature 574: 679-685. 
  7. Davis, W. J., K. R. Amses, G. L. Benny, D. Carter-House, Y. Chang, I. Grigoriev, M. E. Smith, J. W. Spatafora, J. E. Stajich, T. Y. James. Genome-scale phylogenetic analyses reveal a monophyletic Zoopagales (Zoopagomycota, Fungi) with predacious taxa evolving from mycoparasite ancestors. 2019. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 133: 152-163.
  8. Chang, Y., A. Desirò, H. Na, L. Sandor, A. Lipzen, A. Clum, K. Barry, I. Grigoriev, F. Martin, J. Stajich, M. Smith, G. Bonito, Spatafora, J.W. Phylogenomics of Endogonaceae and evolution of mycorrhizae within Mucoromycota. 2019. New Phytologist 222: 511-525.
  9.  Spatafora, J. W., Y. Chang, G. L. Benny, K. Lazarus, M. E. Smith, M. L. Berbee, G. Bonito, N. Corradi, I. Grigoriev, A. Gryganskyi, T. Y. James, K. O’donnell, R. W. Roberson, T. N. Taylor, J. Uehling, R. Vilgalys, M. M. White, And J. E. Stajch. 2016. Zygomycete Genealogy Of Life (Zygolife): a phylum-level phylogenetic classfication of zygomycete fungi based on genome-scale data. Mycologia 108: 1028-1046.
  10. Chang, Y., S. Wang, S. Sekimoto, A. Aerts, C. Choi, A. Clum, K. LaButti, E. Lindquist, C.Y. Nagn, R. A. Ohm, A. Salamov, I. V. Grigoriev, J. W. Spatafora and M. L. Berbee. 2015. Phylogenomic analyses indicate that early fungi evolved digesting cell walls of algal ancestors of land plants. Genome Evolution and Biology 7: 1590-1601
  11. Chang, Y., and S. W. Graham. 2014. Patterns of clade support along the backbone of moss phylogeny. Cladistics 30: 590-606.
  12. Chang, Y., and S. W. Graham. 2011. Inferring the higher-order phylogeny of mosses (Bryophyta) and relatives using a large, multigene plastid data set. American Journal of Botany 98: 839-849.
  13. Chang, Y., and S. W. Graham. 2011. Bryophyte-specific primers for retrieving plastid genes suitable for phylogenetic inference. American Journal of Botany 98: e109-e113.
  14. Akiyama, H., Y. Chang, T. Yamaguchi, and B. C. Tan. 2011. Yakushimabryum longissimum (Pylaisiadelphaceae) gen. & sp. nov., from the Yakushima Island, Japan. Journal of Bryology 33: 42-49.
  15. Akiyama, H., Y. Chang, and B. C. Tan. 2010. Clastobryopsis imbricata (Pylaisiadelphaceae) sp. nov. from Doi Inthanon, northern Thailand. The Bryologist 113: 752-759.
  16. Chang, Y., C.-W. Khiong, S. W. Graham and B. C. Tan. 2006. Molecular evidence for the systematic positions of two enigmatic mosses: Pterogonidium pulchellum (Sematophyllaceae, Musci) and Piloecium pseudorufescens (Myuriaceae, Musci).   Canadian Journal of Botany 84: 501–507.
  17. Tan, B. C. and Y. Chang. 2004. Molecular contribution to the systematic position of Mastopoma scabrifolium (Broth. in Moell.) B. C. Tan & Tran Ninh (Sematophyllaceae, Bryopsida). Cryptogamie, Bryologie 25: 301-308.