Wen-Bin Yu, PhD 郁文彬
Associate Professor
Center for Integrative Conservation
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China
Phone: 86-13888744691
E-mail: wenbin.yu.botany@gmail.com
           yuwenbin@xtbg.ac.cn

Visiting Researcher
Department of Biology
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802, USA
Phone: (814)441-3755
E-mail: wxy124@psu.edu
Collaborator: Clade dePamphilis, http://cwd.huck.psu.edu/index.html

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Education

• 2011.06   Ph.D., Botany, Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS
• 2007.06   M.Sc., Botany, Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS
• 2004.06   B.Sc., Biology, School of Life Sciences and Food Engineering, Nanchang University
• 2003.06   Minor in Business Administration, School of Economics and Management, Nanchang University

Appointments

• 2015.09--              Visiting Researcher, Pennsylvania State University
• 2015.09--              Director of Herbarium & Seed Bank, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS
• 2014.08--              Associate Professor, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS
• 2013.01-2014.07  Assistant Professor, Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS
• 2012.12-               Visiting Researcher, Field Museum of Natural History
• 2011.11-2012.12   Postdoctoral Fellowship, Field Museum of Natural History
• 2011.07-2011.11   Assistant Researcher, Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS
• 2007.07-2008.08   Research Assistant, Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS

Experiences and Activities

• 2012.4               Courses of phylogenetic comparative methods in the Field Museum
• 2012.2                Workshop of Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS) in the Pritzker lab
• 2010.3-2012.5    Expert group for Scrophulariaceae s.l., Red List of Chinese High Plants (IUCN)
• 2009.11              Scientific Writing Workshop of New Phytologist in China
• 2008.8                Workshop of ‘International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN)’ in Kunming 
• 2008.5-2010.5     Assist Prof. Wang to guide six undergraduate students for undergraduate thesis
• 2005.10-2006.9   A Member of Student Committee in Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS
• 2005.8-2011.7     A volunteer of scientific commentator for Kunming Botanical Garden
• 2004.9-2005.7     A Member of Student Committee in Yuquan Campus of Graduate University of CAS
• 2002.5                 The Third Business Plan Competition of Chinese Colleges
• 2000.10-2003.9   A Member of Student Committee in School of Life Sciences and Food Engineering, Nanchang University

Awards

• 2011.6 Excellent Graduated Student of Graduate University of CAS
• 2010.7 Excellent Student of Graduate University of CAS
• 2009.6 Fellowship of Zhu Liyuehua for Doctoral candidate, CAS
• 2009.3 First-class M.Sc. Thesis of Yunnan, Yunnan Department of Education (no. S2009001)
• 2006.7 Excellent Student and Student Council Leader of Graduate University ofCAS 2006.4 Graduate fellowship of Western China, CAS (the Second award)
• 2005.7 Excellent Student Council Leader of Yuquan Campus, Graduate University of CAS
• 2002.12 Silver Award of College Business Plan Competition in Nanchang University (participant)
• 2002.10 Bronze of the 3rd Business Plan Competition of Chinese College, Heaven Silicon Valley (participant), The Ministry of Education etc.

Participant funds

• 2013-2015 Speciation mechanism of Pedicularis rex in the Hengduan Mountains region (PI, NSFC for Young Scientist: 31200185)
• 2013-2015 Phylogeny and generic delimitation of tribe Anemoneae (Ranunculaceae) (Participant, NSFC for Young Scientist: 31200158)
• 2013-2016 Morphogical Diversity and adaptive evolution of pollen morphological states of basal angiosperms (Participant, NSFC: 31270272)
• 2012-2014 Phylogenetics and evolution strategy in the core East Asian clade of Gaultheria (Ericaceae) (Participant, NSFC for Young Scientist: 31100163)
• 2011-2014 Detecting sympatric speciation of Pedicularis rex complex in the Hengduan Mountains (PI, West Light Foundation of the CAS for Young Doctor)
• 2011-2014 Phylogeny, biogegraphy, and diversification in Pedicularis(Orobanchaeceae) (Participant, US-NSF: DEB-1119098)
• 2010-2012 Systematics and speciation of Pterygiellacomplex (Orobanchaeceae) (Participant, NSFC: 30970201)
• 2009-2011 DNA barcoding of Pedicularis in China (Participant, CAS: 2009-LSF-GBOWS-01)
• 2008-2012 Evolution and conservation of biodiversity in Sino-Himalayas region (Participant973, Program, 2007CB411600)
• 2007-2009 Floristics of Yanshan Mountain located at borders of Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou (Participant, NSFC: 30670160)
• 2007-2009 Systematics and Evolution of tribe Rhinanthoidae in Eastern Himalayas (Participant, CAS: KSCXZ-YW-Z-034)
• 2006-2008 Development and divergence of floral symmetry for Pedicularis(Orobanchaeceae) (Participant, NSFC: 30570115)
• 2005-2008 Collecting and Sorting of Germplasm Resources in Southwestern China (Participant, MST: 2005DKA21006)