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Chang-Yu Chang 張昌祐

Professional Appointment and Education

2022-now

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania

Advisor: Dr. Corlett W. Wood
2017-2022

Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University

Advisor: Dr. Alvaro Sanchez
2015-2017

M.S., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University

Advisor: Dr. Sheng-Feng Shen
2011-2015

B.S., Life Science, National Taiwan University

Presidential and Dean’s Award (ranking top 5% in the class) GPA: 4.1/4.3

Publications

* these authors contributed equally

2023

Emergent coexistence in multispecies microbial communities

Science

Chang-Yu Chang, Djordje Bajic, Sylvie Estrela, Jean Vila, Alvaro Sanchez

2022

Top-down and bottom-up cohesiveness in microbial community coalescence

PNAS

Juan Diaz-Colunga*, Nanxi Lu*, Alicia Sanchez-Gorostiaga*, Chang-Yu Chang, Helen Cai, Joshua Goldford, Mikhail Tikhonov, Alvaro Sanchez

2022

Functional attractors in microbial community assembly

Cell Systems

Sylvie Estrela, Jean C C Vila, Nanxi Lu, Djordje Bajic, Maria Rebolleda-Gomez, Chang-Yu Chang, Joshua E. Goldford, Alicia Sanchez-Gorostiaga, Alvaro Sanchez

2021

Engineering complex communities by directed evolution

Nature Ecology & Evolution

Chang-Yu Chang*, Jean C C Vila*, Madeline Bender, Richard Li, Madeleine C Mankowski, Molly Bassette, Julia Borden, Stefan Golfier, Paul Gerald L Sanchez, Rachel Waymack, Xinwen Zhu, Juan Diaz-Colunga, Sylvie Estrela, Maria Rebolleda-Gomez, Alvaro Sanchez

2021

Directed Evolution of Microbial Communities

Annual Review of Biophysics

Alvaro Sanchez, Jean C C Vila, Chang-Yu Chang, Juan Diaz-Colunga, Sylvie Estrela, Maria Rebolleda-Gomez

2020

Artificially selecting bacterial communities using propagule strategies

Evolution

Chang-Yu Chang*, Melisa L Osborne*, Djordje Bajic, Alvaro Sanchez.

2018

Ecological effects of cellular computing in microbial populations

Natural Computing

Maia Baskerville*, Arielle Biro*, Mike Blazanin*, Chang-Yu Chang*, Amelia Hallworth*, Nicole Sonnert*, Jean C C Vila*, Alvaro Sanchez

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

2022-2024

Data Driven Discovery Postdoctoral Fellow ($27,500)

University of Pennsylvania
2017-2020

Government Fellowship for Oversea Study ($126,000)

Taiwan Ministry of Education

Teaching Fellow Experience

2020

BIOL104: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University

2019

E&EB729: Microbial Ecology and Evolution, Yale University

2019

PBoC2019: Physical Biology of the Cell course, Marine Biological Laboratory

2019

EEB250/550: Biology Of Terrestrial Arthropods, Yale University

2019

EEB251L/551L: Laboratory for Biology Of Terrestrial Arthropods, Yale University

2019

EEB223L/523L: Laboratory for Evolution & Functional Traits, Yale University

2016

LS3022: Biostatistics, National Taiwan University

2015

LS1019: General Botany Lab, National Taiwan University

Invited Seminars

2023 Sep

Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University

2023 Sep

Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica

2021 Nov

Princeton University. Lab-invited seminar

2021 Nov

University of Pennsylvania. Lab-invited seminar

2021 Jan

Workshop on Limits to Diversity Assembly, ICTP

2020 Oct

Microbial Sciences Institute SMAL talks, Yale University

Contributed Presentations

2023 Jun

Evolution 2023. Contributed talk

Albuquerque, NM
2023 Jan

ASN Asilomar 2023. Contributed talk

Honorable mention postdoc presentation Pacific Grove, CA
2022 Jun

Evolution 2022. Contributed talk

Cleveland, OH
2022 Aug

Connections Across Borders - Microbial Ecology Conference

Travel grant $250; Yale GSA CTF traint $750 Mexico City, MX
2019 May

The Graduate Research in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution Annual Symposium (GREBE). Contributed talk

New Brunswick, NJ
2019 May

Yale EEB graduate student symposium

Best contributed poster New Haven, CT
2019 Aug

Microbial Sciences Institute Retreat, Yale University. Contributed poster

New Haven, CT
2018 Aug

17th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME). Contributed poster

Leipzig, DE
2017 Jan

18th Congress of Animal Behavior and Ecology. Winner Prize for research and oral presentation

Chiayi, TW
2016 June

Graduate student symposium, National Taiwan University. Best contributed poster

Taipei, TW
2016 Aug

15th Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE). Contributed talk

Exeter, UK

Services

2018-2020

President, Yale Taiwansese Student Association

Organized recreational and holiday events for Taiwanese students
Facilitated connections among Taiwanese students across universities

2019

Organizer, Yale EEB Hutchinson speaker

Dr. Dolph Schluter (UBC) invited as the 2019 Hutchinson Speaker
Organized and modulated invited speaker talks, sessions, and meetings

References

Dr. Corlett W. Wood

Postdoc advisor

Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Alvaro Sanchez

Ph.D. advisor

Principal investigator, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Spain

Dr. Maria Rebolleda-Gomez

Dissertation committee

Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine

Dr. David Vasseur

Dissertation committee

Professor, Yale University