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Zhang, Wenju

Zhang, Wenju, Professor

E-mail: wjzhang@fudan.edu.cn

 

 

 

 

From 1982 to 1986, Wenjuj Zhang studied biology at Yunnan University. In 1989, he went to Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences to study taxonomy of Camellia plants, where he received his B.A. in 1992. He obtained his Ph.D. in Botany from Wuhan University in 1998. Since 1998, he has been working at Fudan University as Lecturer, Associated Professor, and Professor (2014) to dedicate his interests to researches on evolutionary ecology and plant systematics and evolution.

 

Research Interests

  1. Evolutional Ecology

Dr. Zhang is interested in alpine plants living in areas about 5000 m above sea level and marsh plants living in the estuary, and hope to understand how these plants adapt to extreme habitats by revealing their space genetic structure and production strategies.

  1. Plant Systematics and Evolution

He focuses on the taxonomy and phylogeny of Camellia (Theaceae) and the phylogeography of some species of Hippophae (Elaeagnaceae) in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

  1. Conservation and Utilization of Plant Resource

Camellia species and Panax species are the most important plants he has paid so much attention to, including their genetic diversity, local extinction, and conservation strategy.

 

Awards

  • 2004, First class award for Yunnan Science and Technology Award (Natural Science);
  • 2011, Oustanding Graduate Student Menorship Award of Fudan University
  • 2013, Second class award for Shanghai Teaching Achievement Award

 

Selected publications

  1. Cheng Sh, Qiong L, Lu F, Yonezawa T, Yin G, Song Zh, Wang Y, Yang J, and Zhang W. (2017) Phylogeography of Sophora moorcroftiana Supports Wu's Hypothesis on the Origin of Tibetan Alpine Flora. Journal of Heredity. 108, 405-414.
  2. Qiong, L, Zhang W, Wang H, Zeng L, John B. Birks, and Zhong Y. (2017) Testing the effect of the Himalayan mountains as a physical barrier to gene flow in Hippophae tibetana Schlect. (Elaeagnaceae), PLoS One. 12 (2017).
  3. Xu J, Xu Y, Yonezawaa T, Li, Hasegawa M, L Fan, Chen J, Zhang W*.(2015) Polymorphism and Evolution of Ribosomal DNA in Tea (Camellia sinensis, Theaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 89: 63–72.
  4. Xu L, Wang H, La Q, Lu F, Sun K, Fang Y, Yang M, Zhong Y, Wu Q, Chen J, Birks H, Zhang W*. (2014) Microrefugia and shifts of Hippophae tibetana (Elaeagnaceae) on the north side of Mt. Qomolangma (Mt. Everest) during the last 25000 years. PLoS One. 9 (5): 97601.
  5. Wang H, La Q, Sun K, Lu F, Wang Y, Song Z, Wu Q, Chen J, Zhang W*. (2010). Phylogeographic structure of Hippophae tibetana (Elaeagnaceae) highlights the highest microrefugia and the rapid uplift of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Molecular Ecology. 19: 2964-2979.
  6. Vijayan K, Zhang W, Tsou C. (2009) Molecular taxonomy of Camellia (Theaceae) inferred from NR-ITS sequences. American Journal of Botany. 96(7): 1348-1360.
  7. Yang M, Lv X, Fan W, Lu F, Song Z, Wu Q, Zhang W*. (2013) Interspecific hybridization between Scirpus mariqueter TS. Tang & FT Wang and S. planiculmis F. Schmidt and their selfing Aquatic Botany. 110: 92-96.
  8. Zhang W, Qu L, Gu H, Gao W, Liu M, Chen J, Chen Z. (2002) Studies on the origin and evolution of tetraploid wheat based on the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA. Theoretical and Applied Genetics.104: 1099-1106.