State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany

Graduated from Nanjing Forestry University with his bachelor and master degrees. In 1993, he obtained his PhD degree in Plant Systematics and Evolution in the Institute of Botany, CAS and has worked in the institute since then. From 1996 to 1998, as a visiting scholar, he conducted a few of collaborative projects in the Department of Biology of Washington University, USA (with Barbara A. Schaal) and Department of and has worked in the institute of Washington University, USA [Details]

Research groups:

1. Vegetation succession and environmental changes (PI, Chengsen Li)

2. Seed plant taxonomy (PI, Dezhi Fu)

3. Phylogenetic reconstruction of seed plants (PI, Zhiduan Chen)

4. Plant molecular systematics, evolution and biogeography (PI, Xiaoquan Wang)

5. Population biology and evolutionary biology (PI, Song Ge)

6. Gene, chromosome and genome evolution (PI, Daming Zhang)

7. Evolutionary and ecological genomics (PI, Yingqing Lu)

8. Plant systematics and evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) (PI, Yinzheng Wang )

9. Functional evo-devo (PI, Chaoying He)

10. Origin and Evolution of Land Plants (PI, Qi Wang)

11.  Evolutionary Developmental Genetics and Regulatory Genomics (PI, Hongzhi Kong)

Introduction

This center was established in 1998. It was emerged from the former key laboratory of systematic and evolutionary botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (LSEB), the department of plant taxonomy (including the Herbarium), and the department of paleobotany of the Institute of Botany, and is currently a state key laboratory. The mission of this center is to conduct fundamental research in systematic and evolutionary biology. The research scopes include plant taxonomy, floristics and biogeography, the origins and phylogenies of higher plants, population biology and conservation genetics, Evo-Devo and evolutionary genomics. There are 65 staff members, including two academicians of CAS in the center.