Liberal Arts and Sciences
Zhou Lab
Led by Juannan Zhou · Biology
What we study
The Zhou Lab studies how DNA and protein sequences determine what they do, and how that link between genes and traits shapes evolution. It is a quantitative lab that works with mathematical and computer models.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- Mining bacterial (meta)genomes for enzymes active in aerobic, mesophilic conditions
2026 · Analytical Biochemistry
- Evolution of the rate, molecular spectrum, and fitness effects of mutation under minimal selection in Caenorhabditis elegans
2026 · Genetics
Tracks mutation rates and effects in worms over many generations without strong selection.
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- On learning functions over biological sequence space: relating Gaussian process priors, regularization, and gauge fixing
2026 · Journal of Mathematical Biology
Shows how to interpret sequence-function maps by fixing mathematical ambiguities.
- Inference and Visualization of Complex Genotype–Phenotype Maps
2026 · Molecular Biology and Evolution
Builds tools to analyze and visualize how genes affect traits in large datasets.
- Gauge fixing for sequence-function relationships
2025 · PLoS Computational Biology
Explains how to remove mathematical ambiguities in sequence-function models.
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How to reach out
Juannan Zhou hasn't set up this page yet. Their UF Scholars profile lists their publications.