Yichao Zeng

Postdoctoral Researcher

Postdoctoral researcher Alumni

Yichao has long been interested in the interplay of species interactions and macroevolution. He is doing a short postdoc in the lab, where he focuses on developing (co)phylogenetic models and methods for species interactions such as mutualisms and antagonisms.

In the lab
2024 to 2025
Education
PhD
After the lab
Junior Research Chair Fellow Modélisation de la biodiversité, Université PSL

Papers 2

Macroevolutionary Rates of Species Interactions: Approximate Bayesian Inference from Cophylogenies Systematic Biology · 2026 2 authors Macroevolutionary Rates of Species Interactions: Approximate Bayesian Inference from Cophylogenies bioRxiv · 2025 2 authors

Tools and data 1

cophy_ABCR packageThis project presents an Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) approach to estimating speciation and extinction rates from cophylogenetic systems.