CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME: Xinshuai Qi
Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

(Updated Oct, 2016)


CONTACT INFORMATION:

Office:  Biology Science West 321E
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Email: qxs@email.arizona.edu

Links:
The Barker lab @UA
The Pires lab @UM
The Olsen lab @WUSTL
The Soltis lab @UF
The Fu and Qiu lab @ZJU
ChineseGenomics
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Education and Employment:
  • University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, Postdoctoral Research. Lab Affiliation: Michael S. Barker. Nov. 2014 -- present
  • Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA; Postdoctoral Researcher. Lab Affiliation: Kenneth M. Olsen. Aug. 2013-Oct. 2014.
  • University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA; Visiting student (part of my Ph.D program). Advisor: Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis. Nov. 2011-Apr. 2013
  • Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Ph.D. Botany. Advisor: Yingxiong Qiu, Chengxin Fu. 2008-2013
  • Northwest Agriculture & Forest University, Yangling, China; B.S. Biotech. 2004-2008
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Current Research:

I am interested in a wide range of topics in plant evolution. My research has involved in wild and crop plant population genetics, genomics, QTL mapping, phylogeography and plant gene family evolution. I am also interested in topics like comparative genomics, transcriptomics, local adaptation, crop domestication, weed and invasive species evolution, bioinformatics, hybridization, phylogeny and ecological niche modeling.

Publications:
Google scholar my publications

Symposium Participation and Presentations:
  1. “Triplication, domestication and diversification of Brassica rapa” Evolution 2016, June 17-21th, 2016, Austin, TX, USA.
  2. “Genomics of domestication of Brassica rapa” Plant & Animal Genome (PAG) meeting 2016, Jan 9th, 2016, San Diego, CA, USA.
  3. “Brassica evolution influenced by polyploidization and domestication” Sep 29th, 2015. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
  4. “Higher substitution rates and more deleterious loci in polyploid plants” Botany 2015. July 25-29th, 2015. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  5. “Relaxed purifying selection leads to more deleterious loci in polyploid plants”. Comparative Genomics and Transcriptomics Meeting and Workshops, May 10-12, 2015. New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. NM.
  6. “Evopipes – identifying orthologous genes from transcriptome data”. Comparative Genomics and Transcriptomics Meeting and Workshops, May 10-12, 2015. New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. NM.
  7. “NGS and its application in plant evolution research”. ECOL-346 Bioinformatics, April 14th, 2015. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  8.  “Comparative QTL mapping, population genetics and the parallel evolution of weedy rice”. St. Louis Ecology, Evolution and Conservation (SLEEC) retreat, September 27th, 2014. Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, MO.
  9. Invited talk on my previous research. Sep 10th, 2014. University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
  10. “QTL mapping using Genotyping-by-Sequencing shed light on the parallel evolution of weedy rice: more than one way to evolve a weed”. 10th Annual Postdoc Scientific Symposium, April 3, 2014. Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
  11. “Comparative QTL mapping, population genetics, and the parallel evolution of weedy rice”. Evolution 2014, July 23, 2014. Raleigh, NC.
  12. “De-domestication and the evolutionary genomics of weedy red rice”. Poster presented at SMBE 2014, June 8-12, 2014. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  13. St. Louis Ecology, Evolution and Conservation (SLEEC) retreat, September 28, 2012, Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, MO.
  14. “What do thousands of SNPs reveal about the origin of Asian weedy rice v.s. U.S. weedy rice” WUSTL Plant & Microbial Biosciences annual retreat, October 18, 2013, Tyson Research Center, Eureka, MO.
  15. “Evolutionary history of the East Asian Tertiary relict Cercidiphyllum (Cercidiphyllaceae)”. Botany 2012, July 4-7, 2012 Columbus, Ohio.
  16. “Phylogeography of East Asia endemic disjunctive plant Platycrater arguta based on multiple molecular markers”. Symposium of plant systematics and evolution, Oct. 26-27, 2011, Kunming, China.
 
Peer Review Experience:
Molecular Ecology, BMC Genetics, PLOS one, Taxon, American Journal of Botany, Journal of Heredity, Annals of Applied Biology, Journal of Systematics and Evolution, Plant molecular Biology Reporter, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal.
 
Mentoring Experience:
Chenlu Di, graduate student. University of Arizona 2016-
Hong An, graduate student. Huazhong Agriculture University 2014-2016
Tara Hall, undergraduate student, University of Arizona 2015- 2016
(now graduate student at Cornell University)
Daniel Cui, undergraduate student, Washington University in St. Louis 2013-2014
              (now graduate student at Washington University)
 
Field Work:
2017 Field survey, specimen and DNA collection, Brassica oleracea weeds, CA, USA (in prep.)
2015 Specimen and DNA collection, Selaginella, CA and AZ, USA
2013 Specimen and DNA collection, Echinochloa weeds, MO, USA
2010 Field survey, specimen and DNA collection, Ginkgo biloba, Tianmu Mt, China
2010 Ecological flora survey, Thousand-island lake, China
2009 Specimen and DNA collection, Neolitsea sericea, Zhoushan islands, China
2008 -2009 Specimen and DNA collection, Kirengeshoma palmate, Cercidiphyllum japonicum, Platycrater arguta, Davidia involucrata, China.
 
Outreach:
Earth Day, FLMNH, University of Florida, FL, 2013
Rice Day, Stuttgart, AR, 2013
Co-found and organize Chinese St. Louis evolution discussion group, 2014
 
Bioinformatics Skills:
NGS data management, analysis using HPC/Linux platform. Proficient Perl, Python and R scripting
 
Honors and Awards:
Songdu scholarship, Zhejiang University, China. 2013. ~$2,000
Outstanding Graduate Students of Zhejiang Province, China. 2013. $500
Joint-training Ph.D. program, China Scholarship Council. 2011-2013. $28,800
Meritorious Winner of Excellent Graduate Student, Zhejiang University, China. 2011