2003.09 - 2007.06， 南昌大学，生物工程专业，工学学士2007.09 - 2013.06， 中国农业大学，生物化学与分子生物学专业，理学博士

2013.9 - 2015.12 ， 瑞典农业大学，计算遗传学系，博士后2016.2 – 至今，华中农业大学副研究员、硕士生导师

代表论文1.Sheng Z, Pettersson ME, Honaker CF, Siegel PB, Carlborg Ö. (2015) Standing genetic variation as a major contributor to adaptation in the Virginia chicken lines selection experiment. Genome Biology, 16:219. 2.Zan Y & Sheng Z (co-first authors), Lillie M, Rönnegård L, Honaker CF, Siegel PB, Carlborg Ö (2017). Artificial Selection Response due to Polygenic Adaptation from a Multilocus, Multiallelic Genetic Architecture. Mol Biol Evol., 34(10):2678-2689. 3.Guo Y & Gu X & Sheng Z（co-first authors）, Wang Y, Luo C, Liu R, Qu H, Shu D, Wen J, Crooijmans RP, Carlborg Ö, Zhao Y, Hu X, Li N. (2016) A Complex Structural Variation on Chromosome 27 Leads to the Ectopic Expression of HOXB8 and the Muffs and Beard Phenotype in Chickens. PLoS Genet., 12(6):e1006071. 4.Sheng Z, Pettersson ME, Hu X, Luo C, Qu H, Shu D, Shen X, Carlborg O, Li N. (2013) Genetic dissection of growth traits in a Chinese indigenous × commercial broiler chicken cross. BMC Genomics, 14:151.