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CURRICULUM VITAE Miao Miao’s CV CURRICULUM VITAE Miao Sun Address: Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida Dickinson Hall, 1659 Museum Rd, PO. Box 117800, Gainesville, FL 32611-7800, USA Phone: 352 (284) 0928 E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Born: Suide, Shaanxi, China; 15 Feb. 1983 Current Position Postdoctoral Research Fellow Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida (2015 to now) Project: Tree of Life – Open project Supervisor: Prof. Doug E. Solits, and Prof. Pam S. Soltis Degrees/Education Ph.D. Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2014) Dissertation: Exploring deep phylogenetic incongruence of the COM clade in Rosidae: Phylogenomics approach Supervisor: Prof. Zhiduan Chen M.S. Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2009) Dissertation: Primary taxonomic study of Elaeagnus (Elaeagnaceae) in Mainland China Supervisor: Prof. Qi Lin B.S. College of Resources and Environment, Beijing Forestry University (2006) Dissertation: Lectotypification of taxa in Angiosperm Supervisor: Prof. Jingwen Li and Prof. Qi Lin Visiting Scholar Laboratory of Molecular Systematics and Evolutionary Genetics, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida (Oct. 2012–Jan. 2013) Supervisor: Prof. Doug E. Solits, Prof. Pam S. Soltis, and Prof. Gordon J. Burleigh Awards/Honors 2006 – 2014: First-class Scholarship for Graduate Student of Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2008: Honored as a science popularization volunteer in the events of “pursuing 1 / 7 Miao’s CV scientific development and building ecological civilization” of the National Popularization Day. 2004 – 2005: Second Scholarships for Excellent Academic Score BFU and National Grants. 2003: Third Scholarships for Excellent Academic Score BFU; National second-class scholarship. 2002: Chinese scholarship. Research Interests In my opinion, the phylogeny, no matter what level (e.g. genes or genome), is a pivotal approach to unveil and solve fundamental issues in biology, for instance, relationships, origin and evolution, historical biogeography of organisms on this planet. One way or another all revolves around the phylogeny. Thus, I’m interest in three aspects at different levels as following: 1. As the growing assemblage of numerous independent loci from vast of genes and genomes resources in phylogenetic analysis, the phylogenetic incongruence is getting frequent and inevitable. Besides systematic errors or sampling biases, the biological processes behind these discordances are really fascinating. Even though sometimes hard to prove, surely they may profoundly impact early evolution of the angiosperms at deep levels. I have long-term interests in unraveling enigmatic phylogenetic relationships and deciphering evolutionary histories that the taxa may undergo via bioinformatics approaches, like my current work on the COM (Celastrales-Oxalidales-Malpighiales) clade in rosids. 2. As I mainly involved in the program of Generic Level Phylogenetic Tree of Chinese Land Plants and Phylogeny of rosids in China, currently I’m also interested in examining patterns of phylogenetic diversity in local floristic assemblages, how biodiversity is shaped through time, and how the species functional traits interact with historical biogeography of plant communities under various environmental constraints. 3. With my taxonomic background, I’m also interested in certain genera (e.g. Eleaegnus), to study its phylogeny, biogeography, and origin and dispersal with time tree and ecological niche modeling appoaches. Research Experiences 2015-2014: Phylogeny of Rosidae worldwide We’ve assembled worldwide rosid supermatrixs of 1304 atpB sequences, 7703 rbcL sequences, 9144 matK, and 14330 ITS sequences, and 759 matR sequences from Genbank (including 427 sequences generated by my colleagues and me). Based on the supermatrix, we constructed trees of rosids worldwide, to examine patterns of phylogenetic diversity globally. Also based on hotspots of plant diversity, and geological history, we will investigate the origin and differentiation of rosids and the evolutionary dynamics of biodiversity of the rosid lineages over time and their possible environmental constraints, integrating phylogenetic, molecular dating, diversification 2 / 7 Miao’s CV analytical, and biogeographic inferring methods. 2013: During the visit of University of Florida, I collaborated with Doug Solits, Pam Soltis, and Gordon Burleigh, working on the incongruence of the COM clade in Rosidae. Rosidae is one of the largest clades of angiosperms; it diversified rapidly over a window of 4 to 5 million years. Interestingly, the placement of one large rosid subclade (the COM clade) differs among chloroplast, mitochondrial, and nuclear data sets in published studies. In our study, we assembled three taxonomically comparable matrices representing each plant genome to investigate the incongruence among the three plant genomes. We clarify the phylogenetic placement of the COM clade, noting persistent incongruence between two alternative topologies. Significantly, our data are consistent with a complex evolutionary history in which ancient introgressive hybridization occurred during the early and rapid radiation of Rosidae, revealing the impact of evolutionary forces at deep levels in the angiosperms. Participated in drafting a Key Program of National Science Foundation of China proposal “Origin and evolution of rosid plants and its environmental constraints”. 2012: Key participant of a National Science Foundation of China proposal “Phylogenetics of the COM clade in rosids” (Granted). Participated in drafting a proposal for program of Internal S&T Cooperation “A Chinese-Australian Joint Research Centre to Develop Phylogenetic Infrastructure for Conservation Management”. Acquired over 300 sequences of three chloroplast genes (rbcL, atpB and matK ), two mitochondrial genes (matR and nad5) from 155 species and genera in 36 families of rosids, reconstructed and analyzed the phylogeny of rosids based on these sequences (combined with GenBank’s data). 2010–2011: Participated in the project “DNA Barcoding of Juglandaceae” (the Large-scale Scientific Facilities of the CAS, Grant No. 2009-LSF-GBOWS-01), acquired eight series of gene sequences (rbcL, matK, rpl16, psbA-trnH, trnL-F, atpF-H, psbK-psbI and ITS) from 97 individuals in Juglandaceae, in order to evaluate the discriminating power of the eight markers at the species level, and to illustrate the potential for certain DNA regions to be used as novel internet biological information carrier (cooperation with other two colleagues). 2006–2009: Conducted primary taxonomic study of Elaeagnus (Elaeagnaceae) in Mainland 3 / 7 Miao’s CV China, participating in field collection and visiting 18 herbaria in China (CDBI, GXMI, HGAS, HHBG, IBK, IBSC, KUN, LBG, N, NAS, NAU, PE, SYS, SWFC, SZ, YAF, YCP, and YUKU) (Sep. 2006–Oct. 2009). Research Skills Taxonomic skills: able to identify most seed plants at genera level or at least family level and expert in Elaeagnus (Elaeagnaceae), familiar with International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and mastering the process of compressing specimens. Molecular biology skills: DNA extraction, PCR, sequencing, clone. Bioinformatical skills: Operation with bio-softwares and genome databases, experiences of using R packages, Linux, Perl, and Python for sequence data analysis. Computer skills: Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel and Adobe Photoshop, bio-softwares and biological database. Language skills: Fluent spoken and written English. Field Experience Jul. –Aug. 2015 Worked in Mountain Lake Biological Station (Virginia) with Jeremy Lichstein (Department of Biology, University of Florida) and other ecologists collecting DNA, metabolites, RNALater, from canopy trees and understory communities and soil and other microbial materials for Dimensions US-China Project (Collaborative Research: How historical constraints, local adaptation, and species interactions shape biodiversity across an ancient floristic disjunction Dimensions). Jun. 2015 Participated in Talladega National Forest (Alabama) with Doug Soltis and Pam Soltis (Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida) and other ecologists for material collection and first hand data generation for Dimensions US-China Project. May 2015 Worked in Ordway Biological Station (Florida) with Doug Soltis and Pam Soltis (Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida) and other ecologists for material collection and first hand data generation for Dimensions US-China Project. Oct. 2012: Trip to southern Yunnan along Myanmar border with Pam S. Soltis and Doug E. Soltis, collecting materials for Tree of life China Project. Mar. 2012: Trip to Hainan tropical rain forest with Doug E. Soltis, collecting materials of Rosidae. 2006–2011: Joined in the expedition team of national herbarium (PE) for collection many times, successively visited biodiversity hotspots, such as Hubei, Chongqing, Guangxi, Sichuan, Xizang, etc. 4 / 7 Miao’s CV Academic Activities 2015: Kick-off workshop of Dimensions US-China: Collaborative Research: How historical constraints, local adaptation, and species interactions shape biodiversity across an ancient floristic disjunction Dimensions Reproducible Science Workshop - Tools, Resources, and Practices UFII Inaugural Symposium 2015: The Symposium was focused on Big Data and Informatics problems across scientific disciplines while fostering cross-discipline collaborative efforts to solve them. Research Computing Training at UF Information Technology,
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