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Wenchi Jin - Graduate Student
wencjin@umich.edu | phone: 734-936-3335
Academic background
Nanjing University, B.S.
Fields of study
Plant taxonomy, systematics, biogeography, and evolution
Research interests
I have joined Paul Berry’s lab and participate in the Euphorbia Planetary Biodiversity Inventory project. Currently I am focusing on Euphorbia subgenus Esula, the leafy spurges, a greatly diverse group comprising more than 500 species, which occur mainly in temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere. My aim is to reconstruct the phylogeny and historical biogeography of this group, primarily with the use of DNA sequence data from different gene regions and chromosome data. I am collaborating with Dmitry Geltman of the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and other Euphorbia experts. I maintain my life-long interest in the flora of East Asia; field work in China to collect endemics of subg. Esula is part of my current research program. I am trying to reveal a hidden Eastern Asia-North America pattern of disjunction in section Chamaebuxus. See also my BSA webpage.
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