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Wang, Yuguo

 

Wang, Yuguo, Associate Professor

E-mail: wangyg@fudan.edu.cn

 

 

 

 

 

From 1995 to 1998, Yuguo Wang studied Botany at School of Life Sciences, Wuhan University of China, where he received his MSc in Botany in 1998. From 1998 to 2000, he was an assistant professor of Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guilin. From 2000 to 2003, he studied at School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University of China, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 2003. In 2002 and 2004, he went to California Academy of Sciences to perform his Ph.D. thesis research as a visiting scientist. From 2004 to 2006, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Fudan University with Prof. Jiakuan Chen. From 2006 to now, he continues his research on plant phylogenomics, evolutionary ecology and biogeography in Fudan University. From 2011 to 2012, he studied horizontal gene transfer between parasitic plants and their hosts at Harvard University as a visiting scholar. In 2013, he became an associate professor of Fudan University.  

 

Research Interests

Dr. Yuguo Wang has a long standing interest in evolutionary mechanisms involving interspecific relationships among complicated plant groups and their adaptation, using phylogeny, genomics, evolutionary ecology and bioinformatics; in addition, he has focused especially on mechanisms involving horizontal gene transfer (HGT) between parasitic plants and their hosts, and plant speciation with adaptive radiation.

 

Awards

2015, Fosun Bio-Medicine Award for School of Life Sciences, Fudan University

 

Selected publications

  1. Fu W, Liu X , Zhang N, Song Z, Zhang W, Yang J, Wang Y*. (2017) Testing the hypothesis of multiple origins of holoparasitism in Orobanchaceae: phylogenetic evidence from the last two unplaced holoparasitic genera, Gleadovia and Phacellanthus. Frontiers in Plant Sciences. 8:1380. (*corresponding author).
  2. Huang D, Zhang Y, Jin M, Li H, Song Z, Wang Y*, Chen J .(2014) Characterization and high cross-species transferability of microsatellite markers from the floral transcriptome of Aspidistra saxicola (Asparagaceae). Molecular Ecology Resouces. 14:569-577. 
  3. Xi Z#, Wang Y#, Bradley R, Sugumaran M, Marx C, Rest J, Davis C. (2013) Massive Mitochondrial gene transfer in a parasitic flowering plant clade. PLoS Genetics. 9(2): e1003265 (# co-first author).
  4. Wang Y, Li G, Zhang W, You J, Chen J*. (2007) Leaf epidermal features of Rhododendron (Ericaceae) from China and their systematic significance. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica. 45(4): 1-20.
  5. Wang Y, Li G, Zhang W, You J, Chen J*. (2007) A systematic study of the genus Rhododendron (Ericaceae) from China using micromorphological characters of fruit surface and seed coat. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica. 45(4): 21-38.
  6. Wang Y, Fritsch P*, Shi S, Almeda F, Boni C, Kelly L. (2004) Molecular phylogeny and infrageneric classification of Symplocos (Symplocaceae) inferred from DNA sequence data. American Journal of Botany. 91(11):1901-1914.