From left to right: Yiying He, Maoxian Chen, Xiaoling Li, Fang Liu, Xin Jin, Yiwei Huang, Andan Zhu, Xu Zheng, Weishu Fan, Haiyuan Du, Mengqing Zhe, and Wu Chen. Lab Photo at July, 2022.

Dr. Weishu Fan, Associate Professor

Email: fanweishu@mail.kib.ac.cn

Learning and work experience:

2022.1- Associate Professor, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany(KIB), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS).
2018.1-2021.12 Assistant Professor, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany(KIB), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS).
2012.8-2017.9 Ph.D and Postdoctoral, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.
2007.9-2011.7 Bachelor of Agriculture, Agricultural College, Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University.

Research Interests:

Plant Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics. Combining state-of-the-art sequencing techniques and molecular biology to study the evolution of genetic and trait innovations, such as photosynthsis and energy-related metabolism, genomic structure, gene and intron content, RNA editing, horizontal gene transfer, etc.

Publications:

1. Weishu Fan#, Zhenshan He#, Mengqing Zhe, Jing-Qiu Feng, Le Zhang, Yiwei Huang, Fang Liu, Jia-Lin Huang, Ji-Dong Ya, Shi-Bao Zhang, Jun-Bo Yang*, Andan Zhu*, De-Zhu Li*. High-quality Cymbidium mannii genome and multifaceted regulation of crassulacean acid metabolism in epiphytes. Plant Communications in press
2. Weishu Fan#, Fang Liu#, Qiaoya Jia, Haiyuan Du, Wu Chen, Jiwei Ruan, Jiajun Lei, De‐Zhu Li*, Jeffrey P Mower*, Andan Zhu*. Fragaria mitogenomes evolve rapidly in structure but slowly in sequence and incur frequent multinucleotide mutations mediated by microinversions. 2022. New Phytologist 236:745-759
3. Fang Liu#, Weishu Fan#, Jun-Bo Yang,Chun-Lei Xiang, Jeffrey P Mower, De-Zhu Li*, Andan Zhu*. Episodic and GC-biased bursts of intragenomic and interspecific synonymous divergence in Ajugoideae (Lamiaceae) mitogenomes. 2020. New Phytologist 228:1107-1114
4. Wenhu Guo#, Andan Zhu#, Weishu Fan, Robert P Adams, Jeffrey P Mower*. Extensive Shifts from Cis-to Trans-splicing of Gymnosperm Mitochondrial Introns. 2020. Molecular Biology and Evolution 37(6), 1615-1620
5. W Fan, W Guo, L Funk, JP Mower*, A Zhu*. Complete loss of RNA editing from the plastid genome and most highly expressed mitochondrial genes of Welwitschia mirabilis. 2019. Sci China Life Sci 62:498-506
6. A Zhu#, W Fan#, RP Adams, JP Mower. Phylogenomic evidence for ancient recombination between plastid genomes of the Cupressus-Juniperus-Xanthocyparis complex (Cupressaceae). 2018. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18(1), 137
7. W Fan, W Guo, JL Van Etten, JP Mower. Multiple origins of endosymbionts in Chlorellaceae with no reductive effects on the plastid or mitochondrial genomes. 2017. Scientific Reports 7(1), 1-10

Dr. Fang Liu, Postdoc (2021.07-)

Email: liufang@mail.kib.ac.cn

Learning and Work Experience:

2018.9-2021.06 Ph.D.student in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, KIB, CAS.
2017.5-2018.8 Research Assistant , KIB, CAS.
2011.9-2014.7 Master Student of Cell Biology, Henan Normal University.
2007.9-2011.6 Bachelor of bioengineering, Henan University of Urban Construction.

Research Interests:

Evolutionary genomics of plant mitochondrial genome and cytonuclear coevlution.

Publications:

1. Fang Liu#,Weishu Fan#,Jun-Bo Yang, Chun-Lei Xiang, Jeffrey P. Mower, De-Zhu Li* , Andan Zhu* , Episodic and GC-biased Bursts of intragenomic and interspecifc sequence divergence in Ajugodieae (Lamiaceae) mitogenomes, 2020, New Phytologist.228: 1107-1114

2. Weishu Fan#, Fang Liu#, Qiaoya Jia, Haiyuan Du, Wu Chen, Jiwei Ruan, Jiajun Lei, De‐Zhu Li*, Jeffrey P Mower*, Andan Zhu*. Fragaria mitogenomes evolve rapidly in structure but slowly in sequence and incur frequent multinucleotide mutations mediated by microinversions. 2022. New Phytologist 236:745-759

Haiyuan Du, Ph.D. Student (2020-)

Email: duhaiyuan@mail.kib.ac.cn

Learning experience:

2020.8- Ph.D.student in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, KIB, CAS.
2017.9-2020.6 Master student in biochemistry and molecular biology, KIB, CAS.
2013.9-2017.6 Bachelor of Horticulture, Hubei National College.

Research Interests:

1 Comparative genomics and transcriptomics in Fragaria.
2 Strawberry biology.

Xin Jin, Ph.D. Student (2020-)

Email: jinxin@mail.kib.ac.cn

Learning experience:

2020.8- Ph.D. student in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, KIB, CAS.
2017.9-2020.6 Master Student, Yunnan Agricultural University.
2013.9-2017.6 Bachelor, Yunnan Agricultural University.

Maoxian Chen, Ph.D. Student (2021-)

Email: chenmaoxian@mail.kib.ac.cn

Yiwei Huang, Ph.D. Student (2022-)

Email: huangyiwei@mail.kib.ac.cn

Xiaoling Li, Master Student (2020-)

Learning experience:

2020.7 - Master student, KIB, CAS.
2016.9-2020.7 Bachelor of Biotechnology, Northwestern University.

Previous Members:

Fang Liu, Ph.D. Student (2018) Position: Postdoc, Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS

Wu Chen, Ph.D. Student (2018) Position: Postdoc, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen (AGIS), CAAS

Qiaoya Jia, Master Student (2017) Position: Research assistant, Institute of Oceanology, CAS

Chumeng Zhu, Master Student (2018) Position: Ph.D. student, The University of Edinburgh

Mengqing Zhe, Master Student (2018) Ph.D. student, Yunnan University