Ran Zhao

　　　　State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany

　　　　Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

　　　　20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan

　　　　Beijing 100093, P. R. China

　　　　Email: zhaoran@ibcas.ac.cn

　　　　Education

　　　　2007.09 - 2011.06 B.S., Hebei University, Baoding, China

　　　　2011.09 -2018.02 Ph.D., China Agricultural University, Beijing, China (advisor: Wenxin Chen and Changfu Tian)

　　　　Professional Experience

　　　　2018.06 – present Assistant Professor, State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, CAS, Beijing, China

　　　　Research interests

　　　　We use bioinformatics and molecular biology methods to study the evolutionary mechanisms of the origin of key innovative traits in some important plant groups during the process of evolution. At present, we mainly focus on the evolutionary history of key gene families related to innovative traits and the evolutionary mechanisms of related regulatory networks.

　　　　Publications

　　　　1.Wenjing Cui#, Biliang Zhang#, Ran Zhao, Lixue Liu, Jian Jiao, Ziding Zhang, Changfu Tian* (2021) Lineage-specific rewiring of core pathways predating innovation of legume nodules shapes symbiotic efficiency, mSystems, 6(2):e01299-20.

　　　　2.Xiaoxia Zhang, Xiaoxia Li, Ran Zhao, Yun Zhou, Yuannian Jiao* (2020) Evolutionary strategies drive a balance of the interacting gene products for the CBL and CIPK gene families, New Phytologist, 226(5): 1506-1516.

　　　　3.Yiheng Hu#, Ran Zhao#, Peng Xu, Yuannian Jiao* (2018) The genome of opium poppy reveals evolutionary history of morphinan pathway, Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics 16(6): 460-462.

　　　　4.Ran Zhao#, Lixue Liu#, Yunzeng Zhang, Jian Jiao, Wenjing Cui, Biliang Zhang, Xiaolin Wang, Menglin Li, Yi Chen, Zhuqing Xiong, Wenxin Chen, Changfu Tian* (2018) Adaptive evolution of rhizobial symbiotic compatibility mediated by co-evolved insertion sequences, The ISME Journal, 12(1):101-111.