Sun Miao

Prof. Miao Sun is a professor in College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China. His current research interest is mainly focusing on the phylogenomics and conservation of the ornamental related plants, exploring their key innovation characters/traits along their evolution history by taxonomic, phylogenetics, phylogenomics and other comparative bioinformatics approaches, and by so, his team endeavor to protect the genetic resources and diversity of ornamental plants.

Dr. Sun has keen passion for applying phylogenetic tree as a pivotal framework attempting to solve fundamental issues in biology. Phylogenetic tree is a crucial reference system for biological research. It captures evolutionary relationships among species, linking all the biological data together with an evolutionary context. Miao has published high-profile papers in journals such as Nature, Nature Communications, Systematic Biology, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, etc. He has also served the scientific research community as a reviewer from journals in Global Ecology and Biogeography, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Taxon, etc. Dr. is also a member of Botanical Society of America, and a certified Data and Software Carpentry Instructor.

[1] 2009.9—2014.12 Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences > PhD Botany
[2] 2006.9—2009.6 Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences > MS Botany
[3] 2002.9—2006.6 Beijing Forestry University > BS Science

2024:

1. Wang XQ, Xiong T, Wang YY, Zhang XR, Sun M. 2024. Integrating genomic sequencing resources: an innovative perspective on recycling with universal Angiosperms353 probe sets. Horticulture Advances 2: 4.

2023:

1. Guo WY, Serra-Dia, JM, Eiserhardt WL, Maitner BS, Merow C,Violle C, Pound MJ, Sun M, Slik F, Blach-Overgaard A., Enquist BJ, Svenning J-C. Climate change and land use threaten global hotspots of phylogenetic endemism for trees. (2023). Nature Communications 14:6950. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42671-y
2. Tietje M, Antonelli A, Forest F, Govaerts R, Smith SA, Sun M, Baker WJ, Eiserhardt WL. (2023). Global hotspots of plant phylogenetic diversity. The New phytologist, 10.1111/nph.19151. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19151
3. Ye JF, Shan ZJ, Peng DX, Sun M, Niu YT, Liu Y, Zhang Q, Yang Y, Lin QW, Chen J, Zhu RB, Wang YW, Chen ZD. (2023). Identifying gaps in the ex situ conservation of native plant diversity in China. Biological Conservation, 282:110044.
4. Xu WB, Guo WY, Serra-Diaz JM, Schrodt F, Eiserhardt WL, Enquist BJ, Maitner BS, Merow C, Violle C, Anand M, Belluau M, Bruun HH, Byun C, Catford JA, Cerabolini BEL, Chacón-Madrigal E, Ciccarelli D, Cornelissen JHC, Dang-Le AT, de Frutos A, Dias AS, Giroldo AB, Gutiérrez AG, Hattingh W, He T, Hietz P, Hough-Snee N, Jansen S, Kattge J, Komac B, Kraft NJB, Kramer K, Lavorel S, Lusk CH, Martin AR, Ma KP, Mencuccini M, Michaletz ST, Minden V, Mori AS, Niinemets Ü, Onoda Y, Onstein RE, Peñuelas J, Pillar VD, Pisek J, Pound MJ, Robroek BJM, Schamp B, Slot M, Sun M, Sosinski ÊE Jr, Soudzilovskaia NA, Thiffault N, van Bodegom PM, van der Plas F, Zheng J, Svenning JC, Ordonez A. (2023). Global beta-diversity of angiosperm trees is shaped by Quaternary climate change. Science Advances, 9(14):eadd8553. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.add8553.
5. Lin H-Y*, Sun M*, Hao YJ, Li DJ, Gitzendanner MA, Fu C-X, Soltis DE, Soltis PS, Zhao Y-P. (2022). Phylogenetic diversity of eastern Asia-eastern North America disjunct plants is mainly associated with divergence time. Plant Diversity, doi:10.1016/j.pld.2022.09.008
6. Rudbeck AV, Sun M, Tietje M, Gallagher RV, Govaerts R, Smith SA, Svenning J-C, Eiserhardt WL. (2022). The Darwinian shortfall in plants: phylogenetic knowledge is driven by range size. Ecography, 2022: e06142. doi:10.1111/ecog.06142.