研究员，硕导。中山大学本科及硕士学位，云南大学博士学位。

2015年12月作为高层次引进人才进入云南大学工作。

入选云南省中青年学术技术带头人后备人才，东陆中青年骨干教师。

目前以第一作者身份发表SCI论文11篇（4篇影响因子大于10），包括JCR一区期刊5篇，二区期刊5篇，研究成果曾获得F1000推荐，MBE当期评注，以及国际知名媒体theNewYorkTimes、ScienceDaily及国内各知名媒体报道

基于大规模组学数据，综合利用各种生物学方法，解析家养动物适应不同自然环境和社会环境的遗传机制；揭示家养动物的驯化起源历史。

LiY,WangMS,OteckoNO,WangWen,ShiPeng,WuDD,ZhangYP.HypoxiapotentiallypromotesTibetanlongevity.CellRes.2017,27:302-305

2.LiY,WangGD,WangMS,IrwinDM,WuDD,ZhangYP.Domesticationofthedogfromthewolfwaspromotedbyenhancedexcitatorysynapticplasticity:ahypothesis.GenomeBiolEvol.2014,6(11):3115-3121

3.LiY,WuDD,BoykoAR,WangGD,WuSF,IrwinDM,ZhangYP.PopulationvariationrevealedhighaltitudeadaptationofTibetanMastiffs.MolBiolEvol.2014,31(5):1200-1205

4.LiY,vonHoldtBM,WangGD,ReynoldsA,BoykoAR,WuDD,ZhangYP.Artificialselectiononbrainexpressedgenesduringthedomesticationofdog.MolBiolEvol.2013,30(8):1867-1876

5.LiY,ZhangYP.HighgeneticdiversityofTibetanMastiffsrevealedbymtDNAsequences.ChineseSciBull2012,57:1483-1487

6.LiY,ZhangL,ZhangD,ZhangX,LuX.FasterevolutionofZ-linkedduplicategenesinchicken.JGenetGenomics2010,37(10):695-702

7.AdilijanKader*,LiY*,KunzheDong,DavidM.Irwin,QianjunZhao,XiaohongHe,JianfengLiu,YabinPu,NeenaA.Gorkhali,XuexueLiu,LinJiang,XiangchenLi,WeijunGuan,YapingZhang,Dong-DongWu,YuehuiMa.PopulationvariationrevealsindependentselectiontowardssmallbodysizeinChineseDebaopony.GenomeBio.Evol.2015,8(1):42-50

8.WangMS*,LiY*,PengMS*,ZhongL,WangZJ,LiQY,TuXL,DongY,ZhuCL,WangL,YangMM,WuSF,MiaoYW,LiuJP,IrwinDM,WangW,WuDD,ZhangYP.GenomicanalysesrevealpotentialindependentadaptationtohighaltitudeinTibetanchickens.MolBiolEvol.2015,32(7):1880-1889

9.WuDD*,YeLQ*,LiY*,SunYB,ShaoY,ChenCY,ZhuZ,ZhongL,WangL,IrwinDM,ZhangYE,ZhangYP.IntegrativeanalysesofRNA-editing,alternativesplicingandexpressionofyounggenesinhumanbraintranscriptomebydeepRNA-sequencing.JMolCellBiol.20157(4):314-325

10.LiuHQ*,LiY*,IrwinDM,ZhangYP,WuDD.Integrativeanalysisofyounggenes,positivelyselectedgenesandIncRNAsinthedevelopmentofDrosophilamelanogaster.BMCEvolBiol.2014,14:241

11.WuDD*,WangX*,LiY*,ZengL,IrwinDM,ZhangYP.“Outofpollen”hypothesisfororiginofnewgenesinfloweringplants:studyfromArabidopsisthaliana.GenomeBiolEvol.2014,6(10):2822-9