October 2018: Our lab presented a poster at the Auburn Research Faculty Symposium on our Nasonia and Wolbachia genome assembly and evolutionary analyses work. 
September 2018: The Auburn Dog research and development team was recognized on the 50-yard line before the first home game of 2018 football season. Our lab is leading the research projects to understand the genome underpinnings of behavior and performance traits, as well as the maternal and microbiome influences through placenta and canine gut microbiota.  
September 2018: Brain gene expression and allele frequency changes were identified in the tame fox population from the famous Farm-Fox behavior selection experiment. The story was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 
August 2018: The fox genome project led by Drs. Anna Kukekova and Guojie Zhang was published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Dr. Wang is a co-author of this paper and contributed to the RNA-seq work for gene annotation. Read more at the Science Magazine and National Geographic.  
March 2018: Dr. Wang received seed grant and good-to-great grant from Auburn University Intramural Grant Program (AUIGP) to study epigenetics in jewel wasp Nasonia and X Chromosome Inactivation in a male calico cat model. 
February 2018: The Auburn Dog is featured on AU Magazine and AUCVM news. We are in close collaboration with Drs. Waggoner and Angle at AU Canine Performance Sciences to study the genetic and genomic basis of canine behavior, olfaction, cognition, and reproduction.
January 2018: Dr. Chao Zhang, Associate Dean at the School of Life Sciences and Technology at Tongji University, visited Auburn and established a dual-degree program with AU graduate school and College of Veterinary Medicine. 
October 2017: Auburn University cluster hiring at the College of Veterinary Medicine was featured on AU Veterinarian Magazine. 
September 2017: Dr. Xiaozhu (Gloria) Wang joined the lab as a postdoc. She received her Ph.D. degree in May and will work on the Nasonia genome project and genomic imprinting in placenta guppy fish. 
June 2017: The Wang Laboratory space is officially assigned in the Hubbard Center for Advanced Science, Innovation and Commerce (CASIC) building in Auburn Research Park. We thank Drs. Russ Cattley, Skip Bartol and Calvin Johnson for help with the application, and Drs. Mark Liles, Cova Arias and Henry Fadamiro for the approval. 
April 2017: Dr. Xu Wang accepted the offer to join the Department of Pathobiology at Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine as an Assistant Professor, and as an Adjunct Faculty Investigator at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. 
October 2015: The Nasonia sexual dimorphism paper in PNAS was commented in Biology of Reproduction [link]. 
November 2013: The equine placenta genomic imprinting work was reported on The Horse Magazine: Your Guide to Equine Health Care and BloodHorse.com.   [link1]  [link2]
October 2013: The Nasonia Vitripennis methylome work was selected as the cover image story for October 2013 issue at PLoS Genetics. [link]  [link to paper]. 
August 2013: The equine genomic imprinting work was reported in Cornell Chronicle, the Cornell University official newspaper [link] and Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine news [link]. [link to paper]. 
June 2013: The equids placenta genomic imprinting paper in PNAS was commented in Biology of Reproduction [link].