Shuixian Li: The Plant Cell First Author

Shuixian Li, co-first author of “Delphinieae flowers originated from the rewiring of interactions between duplicated and diversified floral organ identity and symmetry genes”

Current position：Ph.D. candidate, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Education：Bachelor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Non-scientific interests：Music

Brief bio：I became interested in the diversity of flowers when I was an undergraduate at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In 2018, I was honored to join Prof. Hongzhi Kong’s group as a graduate student and engaged in evo-devo studies of flowers. With a focus on exploring the molecular mechanisms underlying the development and evolution of Delphinieae flowers, I carried out detailed comparative transcriptomic analyses in representative species of Delphinieae and its outgroup Nigelleae. I found that some genes showed interesting expression changes tightly associated with the origin of the Delphinieae flowers. I am now pursuing my Ph.D. study. My current work is to explore how the sepal and petals spurs were made through development and evolution in Delphinieae by using classic evo-devo strategies and advanced computational modelling.

 

共同第一作者：李水仙

发表论文：Delphinieae flowers originated from the rewiring of interactions between duplicated and diversified floral organ identity and symmetry genes

现在职位：中国科学院植物研究所，博士研究生

教育经历：上海交通大学，学士

兴趣爱好：音乐

个人简介：我在上海交通大学就读本科时就对花的多样性产生了浓厚的兴趣。2018年，我有幸成为孔宏智研究员的硕士研究生，开始从事花的进化发育相关研究。为了探究翠雀族植物花发育和进化的分子机制，我对该族及其外类群黑种草族的代表物种进行了详细的比较转录组分析。我发现一些基因呈现出与翠雀族花的起源密切相关的表达变化。目前，我正在攻读博士学位。我当前的研究是利用传统的进化发育研究策略和先进的计算模拟技术，探究翠雀族植物中萼片距和花瓣距是如何发育和进化的。