Dr. Ya-Long Guo
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Dr. Ya-Long Guo

  • Postdoc
Department of Molecular Biology
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Spemannstrasse 37-39
72076, Tübingen
Germany

Email: ya [ DASH ] long [ DOT ] guo [ AT ] tuebingen [ DOT ] mpg [ DOT ] de
Phone: +49-7071-6011406

Biography:


Education
  • 1994 - 1998 B.A., Undergraduate studies in Biology, Northwest Normal University, China.
  • 1998 - 2001 M.S. in plant physiology - “Metabolism of reactive oxygen species under natural drought stress in wheat strains”, Lanzhou University, China; Advisor: Prof. Jiuchang Huang.
  • 2001 - 2005 Ph.D. in plant systematics and evolution - “Molecular Systematics of the Tribe Oryzeae (Poaceae)”, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Advisor: Prof. Dr. Song Ge.
  • 2005 - present Postdoctoral Fellow, Evolutionary genomics and genetics of Arabidopsis relatives, Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany; Advisor: Prof. Dr. Detlef Weigel.

 

Presentations
  1. 2003 - The 13th Botanical Society of China Conference (Molecular phylogeny and divergence of the rice tribe), Chengdu, China.
  2. 2007 - The 6th Plant Genomics European Meeting (Whole-genome sequencing of Arabidopsis lyrata and Capsella rubella), Tenerife, Spain.
  3. 2008 - ARelatives First Annual Meeting (Whole-genome sequencing of Arabidopsis lyrata and Capsella rubella), Tübingen, Germany.
  4. 2008 - Postdoc Retreat of the Green MPIs (Whole-genome sequencing of Arabidopsis lyrata and Capsella rubella), Köln, Germany.
  5. 2009 - Comparative genomics and speciation in Arabidopsis relatives (Cruciferae), Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
  6. 2009 - ERA-PG Research Programme Status Seminar (Leveraging the genome sequences of two Arabidopsis relatives for evolutionary and ecological genomics), Lisbon, Portugal.

 

Conference Posters
  1. 2007 - Second Annual DOE JGI User Meeting (Whole-genome sequencing of Arabidopsis lyrata and Capsella rubella), Walnut Creek, California, US.
  2. 2008 - Third Annual DOE JGI User Meeting (Whole-genome sequencing of Arabidopsis lyrata and Capsella rubella), Walnut Creek, California, US.
  3. 2009 - 20th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (The Arabidopsis lyrata genome – what can we learn from the close relative of Arabidopsis thaliana), Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
  4. 2009 - 3th RegioPlantScience Conference (The Arabidopsis lyrata genome – what can we learn from the close relative of Arabidopsis thaliana), Stuttgart, Germany.

 

Research interests
  1. Comparative genomics
  2. Population genetics (genomics)
  3. Evolution of mating systems
  4. Natural variation

 

Publications
  1. Guo YL*, Bechsgaard JS*, Slotte T, Neuffer B, Lascoux M, Weigel D, Schierup MH. 2009. Recent speciation of Capsella rubella from C. grandiflora, associated with loss of self-incompatibility and an extreme bottleneck. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106: 5246-5251. (* co-first author) [For perspectives on this work, see: 1) Pannell JR. 2009. Mating-system evolution: genies from a bottleneck. Current Biology 19(9): R369-R370. 2) Faculty of 1000 Biology: http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1158981/evaluation]http://www.pnas.org/content/106/13/5246.full
  2. Tang C, Toomajian C, Sherman-Broyles S, Plagnol V, Guo YL, Hu TT, Clark RM, Nasrallah JB, Weigel D, Nordborg M. 2007. The Evolution of Selfing in Arabidopsis thaliana. Science 317: 1070-1072. [For a perspective on this work, see Faculty of 1000 Biology: http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1089382/evaluation]http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/317/5841/1070
  3. Guo YL, Ge S. 2006. Advances in the study of systematics and evolution of the tribe Oryzeae (Poaceae). Journal of Systematics and Evolution 44: 211-230.
  4. Guo YL, Ge S. 2005. Molecular phylogeny of Oryzeae (Poaceae) based on DNA sequences from chloroplast, mitochondrial and nuclear genomes. American Journal of Botany 92: 1548-1558. [For a perspective on this work, see Faculty of 1000 Biology: http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1029056/evaluation]http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/full/92/9/1548
  5. Ge S, Guo YL, Zhu QH. 2005. Molecular phylogeny and divergence of the rice tribe (Oryzeae), with special reference to the origin of the genus Oryza. In Toriyama K, Heong K L, Hardy B (eds), Rice is life: scientific perspectives for the 21st century. Philippines: IRRI. Pp. 40-44.
  6. Guo YL, Ge S. 2004. The utility of mitochondrial nad1 intron in phylogenetic study of Oryzeae with reference to the systematic position of Porteresia. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 42: 333-344.
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