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Name： Na Wei
Title： Professor
Education： PhD
TEL： 027-87700850
Email： na.wei.phd@hotmail.com
Address： Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of SciencesNo. 201 Jiufeng 1 Road, East Lake High-Tech Development Zone, Wuhan, Hubei, P. R. China
Research Divisions：
Research Center for Plant Diversity

Resume：

2024–Present: Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences PI
2020–2024: Holden Arboretum, USA PI
2015–2019: University of Pittsburgh, USA Postdoctoral Associate
2009–2015: University of Michigan, USA Ph.D.
2006–2009: Nanjing University M.S.
2002–2006: Nanjing University B.S.

Professional specialty：

Evolutionary Ecology, Plant Genomes, Plant-Pollinator Symbiosis, Plant-Microbiome Symbiosis, Experimental Evolution, Mechanisms of Plant Diversity Maintenance, Bioenergy Plants, Crop Wild relatives

The Evolutionary Ecology team is recruiting for positions at the levels of Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, postdoctoral fellows, PhD students, master’s students, and undergraduate students. If you are interested in ecology, evolutionary biology, microbiology, genomics, bioinformatics, molecular biology, pollination biology, or modeling, please contact us!

Funded projects：

2023–2026: USA NSF BIO Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences and Division of Environmental Biology, Building Synthetic Microbial Communities for Biology, Mitigating Climate Change, Sustainability and Biotechnology (2300058)
2023–2026: Board of Regents Support Fund, Research and Development Program, Research Competitiveness Subprogram (LEQSF(2023-26)-RD-A-14)
2021: Global Botanic Garden Fund, Botanic Gardens Conservation International (GBGF/2021/011)
2018: Frank J. Schwartz Early Career Research Fellowship and G. Murray McKinley Research Fund, University of Pittsburgh (PLE/2018)
2013–2014: CTFS-ForestGEO Grant, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Center for Tropical Forest Science

Academic service：

2021–Present: Case Western Reserve University, USA Adjunct Assistant Professor
2023–Present: Cleveland State University, USA Adjunct Faculty
Referee for ≥30 SCI journals
Grant Panelist/Referee: USA NSF BIO Division of Biological Infrastructure; USA NSF BIO
Division of Environmental Biology, Evolutionary Processes; USA NSF BIO Division of Environmental Biology, Systematics and Biodiversity Science; DFG The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgem eins chaft); NCN National Science Centre Poland, Evolutionary and Environmental Biology

Members：

Aawards and honors：

1. Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan (2014–2015)
It supports outstanding doctoral students who have achieved candidacy and are actively working on dissertation research and writing. We seek to support students working on dissertations that are unusually creative, ambitious, and impactful.
2. Barbour Scholarship, University of Michigan (2013–2014)
It supports women of the highest academic and professional caliber from Asia to study modern science, medicine, mathematics, and other academic disciplines and professions critical to the development of their native lands.
3. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department Fellowship, University of Michigan (2012–2013)
4. Rackham International Student Fellowship, University of Michigan (2010–2011)
It supports outstanding international students.
5. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department Fellowship, University of Michigan (2010–2011)

Major publications：

Selective Publications： (†, co-first authors; *, corresponding authors)
1. Tan J^†*, Wei N^†*, Turcotte MM. 2024. Trophic interactions in microbiomes influence plant host population size and ecosystem function. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291: 20240612.
2. Ashman TL^†*, Wei N^†*. 2024. Evaluating the influences of floral traits and pollinator generalism on α and β diversity of heterospecific pollen on stigmas. Functional Ecology, 38: 465-476.
3. Anneberg TJ^*, Cullen NP, O'Neill EM, Wei N, Ashman TL^*. 2024. Neopolyploidy has variable effects on the diversity and composition of the wild strawberry microbiome. American Journal of Botany, 111: e16287.
4. Wei N^*, Tan J^*. 2023. Environment and host genetics influence the biogeography of plant microbiome structure. Microbial Ecology, 86: 2858-2868.
5. Guo W^†, Wei N^†*, Hao GY, Yang SJ, Zhu ZY, Yang YP^*, Duan YW^*. 2023. Does competitive asymmetry confer polyploid advantage under changing environments? Journal of Ecology, 111: 1327-1339.
6. Wei N^*, Whyle RL, Ashman TL, Jamieson MA. 2022. Genotypic variation in floral volatiles influences floral microbiome more strongly than interactions with herbivores and mycorrhizae in strawberries. Horticulture Research, 9: uhab005.
7. Fetters AM^*, Cantalupo PG, Wei N, Robles MTS, Stanley A, Stephens JD, Pipas JM, Ashman TL^*. 2022. The pollen virome of wild plants and its association with variation in floral traits and land use. Nature Communications, 13: 523.
8. Wei N^*, Kaczorowski RL, Arceo-Gómez G, O’Neill EM, Hayes RA, Ashman T-L^*. 2021. Pollinators contribute to the maintenance of flowering plant diversity. Nature, 597: 688-692.
9. Wei N^*, Russell AL, Jarrett AR, Ashman T-L. 2021. Pollinators mediate floral microbial diversity and microbial network under agrochemical disturbance. Molecular Ecology, 30: 2235-2247.
10. Cullen N, Xia J, Wei N, Kaczorowski R, Arceo-Gomez G, O'Neill E, Hayes R, Ashman TL^*. 2021. Diversity and composition of pollen loads carried by pollinators are primarily driven by insect traits, not floral community characteristics. Oecologia, 196: 131-143.
11. Wei N^*, Du ZK, Liston A, Ashman T-L^*. 2020. Genome duplication effects on functional traits and fitness are genetic context and species dependent: studies of synthetic polyploid Fragaria. American Journal of Botany, 107: 262-272.
12. Liston A^*, Wei N, Tennessen JA, Li J, Dong M, Ashman T-L. 2020. Revisiting the origin of octoploid strawberry. Nature Genetics, 52: 2-4.
13. Wei N^*, Cronn R, Liston A, Ashman T-L^*. 2019. Functional trait divergence and trait plasticity confer polyploid advantage in heterogeneous environments. New Phytologist, 221: 2286-2297.
14. Rebolleda-Gómez M^*, Forrester NJ, Russell AL, Wei N, Fetters AM, Stephens JD, Ashman TL^*. 2019. Gazing into the anthosphere: considering how microbes influence floral evolution. New Phytologist, 224: 1012-1020.
15. Wei N^*, Ashman TL^*. 2018. The effects of host species and sexual dimorphism differ among root, leaf and flower microbiomes of wild strawberries in situ. Scientific Reports, 8: 5195.
16. Tennessen JA, Wei N, Straub SCK, Govindarajulu R, Liston A, Ashman TL^*. 2018. Repeated translocation of a gene cassette drives sex chromosome turnover in strawberries. PLOS Biology, 16: e2006062.
17. Dillenberger MS, Wei N, Tennessen JA, Ashman TL, Liston A^*. 2018. Plastid genomes reveal recurrent formation of allopolyploid Fragaria. American Journal of Botany, 105: 131-143.
18. Wei N, Tennessen JA, Liston A, Ashman T-L^*. 2017. Present-day sympatry belies the evolutionary origin of a high-order polyploid. New Phytologist, 216: 279-290.
19. Wei N, Govindarajulu R, Tennessen JA, Liston A, Ashman T-L^*. 2017. Genetic mapping and phylogenetic analysis reveal intraspecific variation in sex chromosomes of the Virginian strawberry. Journal of Heredity, 108: 731-739.
20. Wei N^*, Bemmels JB, Dick CW. 2014. The effects of read length, quality and quantity on microsatellite discovery and primer development: from Illumina to PacBio. Molecular Ecology Resources, 14: 953-965.

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