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Name： Tao Shi
Title： Professor
Education： PhD
TEL： 027-87700881
Email： shitao323@wbgcas.cn
Address： Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences No. 201 Jiufeng 1 Road, East Lake High-Tech Development Zone, Wuhan, Hubei, P. R. China
Research Divisions：
Research Center for Aquatic Plant

Resume：

Prof. Tao Shi is interested in plant genome evolution, particularly topics including whole-genome duplication, ancestral karyotype evolution, and epigenetic evolution. He got a bachelor's degree from Huazhong Agricultural University and a Ph.D. from Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and he visited University of Arizona and Gent University. He hosted multiple funds including NSFC, Membership of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS, etc. He published articles as the first or corresponding author in Nature Plants, Genome Biology, MBE, Plant Physiology, The Plant Journal, Molecular Ecology, etc. For detail of publications, please visit his researchgate website https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tao-Shi.

Professional specialty：

Aquatic plants, Genome Evolution, Epigenetics, Gene Regulation

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Aawards and honors：

2020 Star Staff of Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2019 Member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS
2017 Star Staff of Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2016 30th National Lotus Exhibition Excellent Paper Award
2010 "Changhua Scholarship Excellence Award" by Wuhan Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Major publications：

1. Shi T, Huneau C, Zhang Y, Li Y, Chen JM^*, Salse J^*, Wang QF^*. 2022. The slow-evolving Acorus tatarinowii genome sheds light on ancestral monocot evolution. Nature Plants, 8: 764-777.
2. Shi T^#*, Gao ZY^#, Chen JM, Van de Peer Y^*. 2024. Dosage sensitivity shapes balanced expression and gene longevity of homoeologs after whole-genome duplications in angiosperms, The Plant Cell, 36(10): 4323–4337.
3. Shi T*, Chen JM^*. 2020. A reappraisal of the phylogenetic placement of the Aquilegia whole-genome duplication. Genome Biology, 21: 295.
4. Shi T, Rahmani RS, Gugger PF, Wang MH, Li H, Zhang Y, Li ZZ, Wang QF^*, Peer YVd^*, Marchal K^*, Chen JM^*. 2020. Distinct expression and methylation patterns for genes with different fates following a single whole-genome duplication in flowering plants. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37(8): 2394-2413.
5. Gao ZY, Yang XY, Chen JM^*, Rausher MD^*, Shi T^*. 2023. Expression inheritance and constraints on cis- and trans-regulatory mutations underlying lotus color variation. Plant Physiology, 191(3): 1662-1683.
6. Zhang Y, Yang XY, Peer YVd, Chen JM^*, Marchal K^*, Shi T^*. 2022. Evolution of isoform-level gene expression patterns across tissues during lotus species divergence. The Plant Journal, 112(3): 830-846.
7. Shi T, Wang K, Yang PF^*. 2017. The evolution of plant microRNAs-insights from a basal eudicot sacred lotus. The Plant Journal, 89(3): 442-457.
8. Li H, Yang XY, Wang QF, Chen JM^*, Shi T^*. 2021. Distinct methylome patterns contribute to ecotypic differentiation in the growth of the storage organ of a flowering plant (sacred lotus). Molecular Ecology, 30:2831–2845.
9. Li H, Yang XY, Zhang Y, Gao ZY, Liang YT, Chen JM^*, Shi T^*. 2021. Nelumbo genome database, an integrative resource for gene expression and variants of Nelumbo nucifera. Scientific Data, 8: 38.
10. Shi T, Huang HW, Sanderson MJ, Tax FE^*. 2014. Evolutionary dynamics of leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinases and related genes in plants: A phylogenomic approach. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 56(7): 648-662.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tao-Shi

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