Haoyu Chao

Haoyu Chao

PhD Student

Zhejiang University

Research Interests

T2T genome assembly and evolution
Functional genomics and genetics
Computational biology method development
Bioinformatics database development

Life Motto

“The harder you work, the luckier you get”

About

My research focuses on plant genome evolution and structural analysis, integrating multi-omics data to uncover biological mechanisms.

Sept 2021 – Jun 2026 College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University

Ph.D. in Bioinformatics (Supervisor: Prof. Ming Chen)

Sept 2017 – Jun 2021 Honhong College (Shennong Class), Southwest University

B.S. in Agronomy (Supervisor: Prof. Kun Lu)

Learn more about me: CV | SWU | ZJU

Selected publications

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T2T-Hub: A central platform for analyzing plant and animal telomere-to-telomere genomes

Haoyu Chao, Zhonghao Ruan, Zhuojin Li, Xinkai Zhou, Shilong Zhang, Xingxing Shen, Cong Feng†, Dijun Chen†, Ming Chen†

WebserverNucleic Acids Research, 2026

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iSeq: an integrated tool to fetch public sequencing data

Haoyu Chao, Zhuojin Li, Dijun Chen†, Ming Chen†

SoftwareBioinformatics, 2024

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BrassicaEDB: A gene expression database for Brassica crops

Haoyu Chao, Tian Li, Chaoyu Luo, Hualei Huang, Yingfei Ruan, Xiaodong Li, Yue Niu, Yonghai Fan, Wei Sun, Kai Zhang, Jiana Li, Cunmin Qu, Kun Lu†

DatabaseInternational Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020

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News

2026-09-01

Started my postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Hong Kong 🎓

2026-04-21

Our work has been accepted by the journal Nucleic Acids Research 🎉