TEAM

Plant Genetics Lab

Current Members


Fei Lu

Group leader.
He is fascinated by genetics, evolution, & computer science. He is trying to pinpoint causative variants of agronomic traits in wheat using interdisciplinary approaches.

Chang-Bin Yin

Research associate.
He has a background in quantitative genetics. He manages the field trials and is particularly interested in hybrid wheat breeding.

Jing Wang

Research associate.
She has a background in molecular biology. She is developing high throughput genotyping, RNA-seq, and regulatory elements screening approaches.

Meng Jin

Engineer.
She is mainly responsible for the financial, administrative, and student management work of the research group, as well as some molecular biology experiments.

Zhi-Liang Zhang

Ph.D. student.
He used to work on the highly complex genome of sugarcane. He is now working on structural variation in the "less complex" genome of bread wheat.

Jun Xu

Ph.D. student.
She loves coding as well. She is developing RNA-seq analysis pipelines and investigating the genetic architecture of gene expression in wheat.

Li-Peng Kang

Ph.D. student.
He majored in forest ecology in college. He is now taking the genomic perspective and studying the evolution of the Triticeae tribe.

Ya-Fei Guo

Ph.D. student.
She is interested in the environmental adaptation of wheat.

Ji-Jin Zhang

Ph.D. student.
He majored in agriculture as an undergraduate. He is working on the phenotypic effect of structural variation.

Xue-Bing Qiu

Ph.D. student.
She is working on the plastid evolution of wheat.

Song Xu

Ph.D. student.
He loves statistics and would like to machine learn (ML) whatever can be learned.

Xin-Yue Song

Ph.D. student.
She is working on the environmental adaptation of wheat.

Jia-Yu Dong

Ph.D. student.
She is working on her Ph.D. project relating to Triticeae species.

Li-Ping Jiang

Ph.D. student.
She is working on coevolution between rice and rice blast fungus for more effective resistance breeding.

Ze-Lin Niu

Ph.D. student.
He is passionate about wheat's genetic analysis from the metabolomics perspective.

You Qing

Ph.D. student.
His research focuses on the genetic mechanism of maize flowering time

Bei-Rui Niu

Ph.D. student.
She is busy taking foundation courses for future research work.

Bing-Jie Zhu

Postgraduate student.
She is working on the polyploidization of wheat.

Ya-Qin Hu

Postgraduate student.
She is a postgraduate first-year student and is studying statistics and programming now.

Jing-chen Yuan

Ph.D. student.
She is engaged in evolutionary studies on the mechanisms of salinity tolerance in grasses.


Former Members

Xue-Bo Zhao

Graduated student.(2017-2022)
She is interested in evolution biology. She was investigated how hybridization, migration, and breeding shaped the unique evolutionary path of bread wheat. She graduated in 2022.

Ming Zhang

Graduated student.(2018-2021)
She worked on the variation of recombination rate between bread wheat and its wild relatives. She graduated in 2022.

Xiao-Han Yang

Graduated student.(2019-2022)
She used to work on the phenotypic effect of rare deleterious variants.

Ao-Yue Bi

Graduated student.(2017-2022)
She used to work on the stress response of turfgrass. Now She is doing postdoctoral research at Zhejiang University

Da-xing Xu

Graduated student.(2017-2023)
He used to work on the effects of introgression from wild relatives on mutation load in the wheat genome.