Mingju Lv
Ph.D. student
Room: 106
Tel: 54920496
Email: mingju.lv@gmail.com
Date of Arrival: 2010-03-15
Education
B.S. –Hunan Normal University, Hunan, 06/2010
Major –Biologic Science
Ph.D. – CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology expected 07/2015
Department: Plant Systems Biology.
Publications and Posters
Evolutionary Position of C4 Intermediate Species --- Insights gained from RNA-Seq analysis Mingju Lv, Sarah Coveshoff, Julian Hibberd, Rowan Sage, Gane Wong, Xinguang Zhu
Rebuild Flaveria Phylogenetic Tree Using RNA-Seq DataMingju Lv, Udo Gowik, Rowan Sage, Gane Wong, peter whesthoff Xinguang Zhu
Research
My research interest is trying to uncover the evolutionary pathway of C4 photosynthesis. So far we study species from genus Flaveria. The genus Flaveria is one of the few genus consisting not only C3 and C4 species, but also large number of intermediates species, including C3-C4 and C4-like species. Both C3-C4 and C4-like species have partial C4 photosynthetic trait, C3-C4 is characterized by specializing GDC to Mitochondria forming a CCM mechanism, and C4-like is characterized by possessing high C4 enzyme activity and expression level but lacking strict intercellular compartmentalization of C4 enzymes which typical of C4 photosynthesis. What I have focused mainly on two aspects.
(1) Pair-wise comparison between the four groups (C3,C3-C4,C4-like,C4) were conducted based on gene expression level using RNA-seq data from 1KP project (http://www.onekp.com/project.html), aiming to figure out the evolutionary stage of intermediates, and how C4 required elements emerged during evolution.
(2) Rebuild the phylogenetic tree of genus Flaveria. We used transcript data of 18 Flaveria samples from 1 KP project and transcript data of other 18 Flaveria samples form Prof. Westhoff’ lab (http://www.emp.hhu.de/). In union, our data cover 14 of the 24 species in genus Flaveria.