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Curriculum Vitae Personal Information

Family Name: Wang Given Name: Li Date of Birth: 01.24.1982 Nationality: China Gender: Female Telephone: +1-806-3190182 E-mail: lilepisorus@gmail.com lwang@iastate.edu Address: Bessey Hall 353B, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organisamal Biology (EEOB), Iowa State University, Ames, IA Google Scholar page:

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yGEvdz0AAAAJ&hl=zh-CN Education and Academic Position Apr. 2014 - present Postdoctor research associate EEOB and GIF (Genomic Informatics Facility), Iowa State University, Ames, IA Feb. 2012 – Mar. 2014 Postdoctor research associate Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, TX, US Sep. 2006 - Jul. 2011 PhD in Botany

Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Feb. 2009 - Nov. 2010 DAAD-CAS joint PhD student

Department of Systematic Botany, Goettingen University, Germany Dec. 2009, Apr. 2010 Short-Term Visitor

Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, London, UK Sep. 2002 - Jul. 2006 Bachelor of Science

College of life science in Wuhan University, China Awards and Honors 2008-2010

DAAD-CAS Joint Scholarship Program 2009-2010

Merit Student by the Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (GUCAS) April 2010 The second prize for giving talks at students’ symposium in Natural History Museum, London 2010-2011 BHPB-GUCAS Scholarship for excellent Ph.D. candidates 2011

The excellent graduate student in CAS 2011

DEAN Award in CAS Research Experience During postdoctor period:

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In the Hufford Lab: My research is focused on understanding the genetic mechanisms of adaptation to environmental stress across the natural landscape. The primary goal of her research is to identify the genomic regions, which show signatures of adaptation to highland environments consistently in different maize landraces. In the Olson Lab: My research in the postdoctor period centered in two aspects: differential expression and population genomics. The NGS technology RNAseq was applied in my research to estimate the differential expression of balsam poplar populations across a large latitude cline. The expression phenotype of these trees was also used for the gene co-expression network analysis to evaluate the evolution of co-expression network across latitudinal gradients. SNPs were called and used for downstream population genomic analysis. Outlier loci showing elevated population divergence across latitude were identified as targets of adaptive selection. Genomic landscape of population genetic indexes (π, θ, r2

(LD), Fst and Fct) was plotted to visualize how selection happened across the genome. During PhD training: 1. Phylogeny

I applied the molecular phylogenetic methods to reconstruct the phylogeny of a fern genus Lepisorus and its affine genera based on four chloroplast regions. 2. Biogeography

The biogeographical study of the genus was deeply preceded to investigate the correlation between the diversification of the fern group and climatic fluctuations, especially in the context of Asian monsoon regimes. 3. Phylogeography

The phylogeographical pattern of a species in Lepisorus was investigated. And we found that population genetics of the complex bear some imprint of the climatic change in Quaternary. 4. Speciation

I utilize two additional nuclear markers, plus the ploidy level estimation to unveil the complicated network of species relationships. Polyploidization has probably occurred in these ferns repeatedly through the entire Quaternary. Successive hybridization and polyploidization events may have resulted in the establishment of high-ploid taxa and complex network-like lineage histories (reticulate evolution). Skills Programming Skills Unix, Perl, python and R Next Generation Sequencing Analysis Skills 1. CLC Genomics Workbench 2. Burrows-Wheeler Aligner, Samtools, Picard, blast2go etc. 3. RNAseq related: tophat-cufflinks pipeline; edgeR; DEseq; WGCNA (co-expression network analysis) 4. Population genomics related: GATK (SNP calling), TASSEL (linkage disequilibrium), vcftools, TreeMix, Arlequin, BayeScan and pegas, ANGSD, PSMC, diCal and MSMC (estimation of effective population size change over time). Experimental Skills

1. DNA extraction, PCR Amplification, Molecular Cloning, Sequencing, Flow Cytometry Techniques

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2. Total RNA extraction and Purification

Phylogenetic, biogeographical and phylogeographical analysis Skills: 1. DNA sequence analyses using DAMBE, MEGA, PAML, HYPHY, Primer Premier 5.0, etc. 2. Phylogenetic analyses through a variety of programs, such as PAUP, PhyML, Garli, MrBayes,

etc. 3. Biogeography: BEAST, S-DIVA, RASP, Mesquite, gammastatistic, R language packages (APE,

LASER) 4. Population genetics analyses using different programs, such as Dnasp, Splitstree, TCS, Arlequin,

SAMOVA etc. Field-trip Experiences Jun-Jul 2012 Alaska, US Jul. 2010 Altai Mountains, Russia Jun. 2010 Swiss and French Alps Aug. 2009 Swiss Alps, Switzerland Nov. 2008 Hainan, Guangdong Province, Southeast of China May 2008 Central Inner Mongolia Dec. 2007 Southeast of Yunnan, border of China and Vietnam Oct. 2007 The Himalayas, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China Aug. 2007 Hengduan Mountains, China Jun. 2006 Shangri-La, China May 2005 the three Gorges region, China Conference Participation 2015 Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, CA 2013 Evolution, Snowbird, Utah, US 2011 International Botany Conference, Melbourne, Australia 2010 The Fifth Asian Fern Symposium, Shenzhen, China 2010 The students’ symposium at Natural History Museum, London, UK 2009 Systematics 2009, Leiden, Netherland. 2009 Niche Evolution, Zurich, Switzerland. 2008 Symposium on Academic study of Chinese ferns, Shenzhen, China. 2006 Symposium on Academic study of Chinese ferns, Shangri-La, China.

Publication List 1. Li Wang, Peter Tiffin, Matthew Olson. 2014. Timing for success: exprssion phenotype and local adaptation related to latitude in the boreal forest tree, Populus balsamifera. Tree Genetics and Genomes. DOI: 10.1007/s11295-014-0731-3. 2. Harald Schneider, Lijuan He, Jeannine Marquardt, Li Wang, Jochen Heinrichs, Sabine Hennequin, Xianchun Zhang. 2013. Exploring the origin of the latitudinal diversity gradient: contrasting the sister fern genera Phegopteris and Pseudophegopteris. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 51: 61-70. 3. Xianchun Zhang, Ran Wei, Hongmei Liu, Lijuan He, Li Wang, Gangming Zhang. 2013. Phylogeny and classification of the extant lycophytes and ferns from China. Chinese Bulletin of Botany 48:

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119-137. 4. Li Wang, Harald Schneider, Xianchun Zhang, Qiaoping Xiang. 2012. The rise of the Himalaya enforced the diversification of SE Asian ferns by altering the monsoon regimes. BMC Plant Biology 12:210. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-12-210. 5. Li Wang, Harald Schneider, Zhiqiang Wu, Lijuan He, Xianchun Zhang, Qiaoping Xiang. 2012. Indehiscent sporangia enable the accumulation of local fern diversity at the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. BMC Evolutionary Biology 12:158. DOI:10.1186/1471-2148-12-158. 6. Li Wang, Zhiqiang Wu, Nadia Bystriakova, Stephen W. Ansell, Qiaoping Xiang, Jochen Heinrichs, Harald Schneider, Xianchun Zhang. 2011. Phylogeography of the alpine fern Lepisorus clathratus on “the roof of the world”. PloS One 6: e25896. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025896. 7. Li Wang, Xinping Qi, Qiaoping Xiang, Jochen Heinrichs, Harald Schneider, Xianchun Zhang. 2010. Phylogeny of the paleotropical fern genus Lepisorus (Polypodiaceae, Polypodiopsida) inferred from four chloroplast genome regions. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54: 211-225. 8. Li Wang, Zhiqiang Wu, Qiaoping Xiang, Jochen Heinrichs, Harald Schneider, Xianchun Zhang. 2010. A molecular phylogeny and a revised classification of tribe Lepisoreae (Polypodiaceae) based on an analysis of four plastid DNA regions. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 162: 28-38. 9. Hongmei Liu, Li Wang, Hui Zeng, Xianchun Zhang. 2008. Advances in the studies of lycophytes and monilophytes with reference to systematic arrangement of families distributed in China. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 46: 808-829. 10. Xianchun Zhang, Li Wang, Xinping Qi. 2008. Additions to the pteridophyte flora of Xizang (IV). Newsletter of Himalayan Botany 41: 20-27. 11. Li Wang, Xianchun Zhang. 2007. Pteridophyta. in Zhenyu Li, Lei Shi (editors), Flora of Emei Mountain. Beijing Science and Technology Press, Beijing, pp. 153-224. 12. Li Wang, Xianchun Zhang. 2007. Chinese aquatic ferns. China Nature 138: 54-55.

Referees: Name: Dr. Matt Hufford (postdoctor supervisor) Email: mhufford@iastate.edu Tel: +1- 515-294-8511 Address: EEOB, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, US Name: Dr. Andrew Severin (postdoctor supervisor) Email: andrewseverin@gmail.com Tel: +1- (515) 294-1320 Address: Genome Informatics Facility (GIF), Iowa State University, Ames, IA, US Name: Dr. Matt Olson (postdoctor supervisor)

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Email: matt.olson@ttu.edu Tel: +1-806-7423722 ext 258 Address: Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Texas, US Name: Dr. Harald Schneider (PhD supervisor) Email: h.schneider@nhm.ac.uk Tel: +44-20-79426058 Address: Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, London, UK Name: Dr. Xian-Chun Zhang ((PhD supervisor)) Email: zhangxc@ibcas.ac.cn Tel: +86-10-62836291 Address: Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China