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I developed an interest in plant evolution as a Master’s student at Guangxi University where I studied how mangrove species with different latitudinal limits and populations from different latitudinal locations adapt to local temperature conditions.

I am currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Oregon where I study how introgressive hybridization during the early divergence history of species radiations contributes to adaptation and speciation. To answer this question I utilize the resources available for the Mimulus aurantiacus species complex to reconstruct the history of hybridization and identify the genetic basis of reproductive isolation among the members of this complex.