Ence Yang from the Key Laboratory of Systematic Mycology and Lichenology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has joined our lab. He has broad interest in fungal adaptive evolution driven by biotic and environmental challenges. As a lead author, he published the study on the adaptive evolution of carnivorous fungi to nematode hosts in PNAS in 2007. He also developed mathematical model for mass extinctions of fungal species. In our lab, he is going to study the adaptive evolution of human pathogen fungi to chemical factors, temperature, and so on using comprehensive genomic approaches.