Xiang Li
@xiangli_evo
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Schmitz lab (UGA). Comparative Genomics, Population Genetics, Plant Evo Devo
Athens, GA
Joined March 2018
Fascinating insights into the repeated evolution of awns! This study highlights developmental constrains can act to potentiate morphological diversity. A beautiful integration of ancestral state estimation, comparative genetics, anatomy, and morphology to trace awn evolution!🌾
Excited to see my dissertation work published!! couldn’t have done it without all my amazing co-authors and especially @madelainebart 🌾
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RT @TNPlantBio: Join us for this exciting series on plant cell types and states! We have an excellent lineup of speakers to stimulate discu…
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Interesting point of variational bias！
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Great advisor and super nice person!
Come work with me as a #postdoc in beautiful UMass Amherst on dodder pop genetics and adaptation! Join an NSF-funded collaboration with researchers at Penn State and Rutgers. Great plant and evo bio folks at UMass too! Job details and how to apply below.
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A very interesting and insightful project! Go to the talk if you can! #EVO24
Interested in the evolution of expression noise and how it affects gene retention following duplication? Come to my talk at 10:15 on Sat (516B)!! This is part of the thematic symposium organized by Daniel Weinreich @DanWeinreich and Gonzalez Bravo Ignacio #Evol2024
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Weedy rice is problematic, but studying rice evolution is fascinating! Huge thanks to my Ph.D. advisor @AnaCaicedoS and my awesome undergrads Dan and Jess for their work on this project together! 🌾🔬
What makes a weed...well, a weed? That's the question that has #UMass researchers stumped. After years of study, they've discovered how #rice, a keystone crop, still behaves very much like a wild #plant. @CNS_UMass #agriculture #umassamherst
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I am thrilled to share our latest paper, exploring the evolution of seed shattering in cultivated and weedy rice from a morphological perspective. Thoroughly examining morphology can provide insights that genetics alone cannot easily offer. Read it! @JXBot
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An interesting paper offering a new approach for comparative studies, using not just orthologs! This could help us understand how expression differs across species and how it evolves #PlantEvolutionIsCool
New Brief Comm: "Coexpression enhances cross-species integration of single-cell RNA sequencing across diverse plant species" To enhance cross-species single-cell analysis, the authors find gene pairs with similar expression patterns across 13 species.
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@Xiao_hui_Li @NewPhyt Same here! I really enjoyed discussing with you! I have always learned something new or been inspired to think from a different perspective when talking with people from another fields. Hope we can collaborate on some exciting projects. And definitely, we will meet in the future!
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Rice evolution!
Oryza genome evolution through a tetraploid lens
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RT @Schmitz_Lab: New work from @sohyun_bang using scATAC-seq to decipher WUS function. Sohyun led our first scTAC-seq analysis of a TF muta…
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RT @WilliamsSci: Please RT - we are seeking a new postdoc! The Williams lab at UC Berkeley ( has a post-doc posit…
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RT @AnaCaicedoS: What works and what doesn’t in making it in academia as #DisabledFaculty? I recently shared my twisty academic disability…
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Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉
I´m thrilled to share our last ms about the origin of weedy rice in Argentina in @molecology with @gabyplantbio, María Crepy, @AnaCaicedoS @SamuelTabbs, @GIRCS1
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RT @TheMindHears: Are you a deaf or hard of hearing academic and want to share your perspective on deafness? Sharing our experiences helps…
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Happy and excited to share that our review paper on seed shattering in rice is now out ! 🌾 🌾🌾 Grateful for the opportunity to contribute! The abscission zone is truly Amazing!!!
Excited to share the paper “Experimental methods for phenotypic and molecular analyses of seed shattering in cultivated and weedy rice”. A collaboration between Merotto and Caicedo labs that aimed to provide valuable hints regarding rice seed shattering
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Great work of comparative genomics using single-cell ATAC-seq to understand the evolution of cis-regulatory elements for photosynthesis genes in C3 and C4 grasses!
Great work @Pabster212! Investigating the cis-Regulatory Basis of C3 and C4 Photosynthesis in Grasses at Single-Cell Resolution
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It is nice to meet with you again! Thanks for showing me around and it is always enjoyable to talk with you!!!
My friend Xiang @xiang68698752 visited me during this holiday. And, we had a chance to celebrate his graduation 🎓 and recent publication 🎉 I had the opportunity to show him around the Howard University campus and the lab during his short visit.
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