Summary
I has been trained as evolutionary biologist with emphasis on molecular genetics and genomics skills. My graduate study with Dr. Guofan Zhang at Chinese Academy of Sciences focused on using comparative genomics, transcriptomics and molecular biology techniques to study stress response adaptation in oysters. During my postdoc training with Dr. Robert Reed in Cornell University, I have developed efficient CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in butterflies and used CRISPR to study developmental genetics basis of butterfly color pattern evolution. I have also applied epigenomics techniques to study cis-regulatory evolution in butterflies. I then continued my journey in Evo-Devo field and shift my focus back to marine organisms. I am now in Dr. Elaine Seaver's lab at University of Florida Whitney lab studying regeneration evolution in annelids.