A group spanning assembly, comparative genomics, and lab operations — working from raw reads to reference genomes.
Principal Investigator
Wei Ming leads MingLab's research on plant genome evolution, focusing on how polyploidy and structural variation shape cereals and their wild relatives. The group builds chromosome-scale reference assemblies and turns them into resources for crop diversity and improvement.
Comparative plant genomicist studying how whole-genome duplication reshapes gene content and regulation across cereal lineages. She builds chromosome-scale assemblies and uses them to trace the fate of duplicated genes through evolutionary time.
Develops long-read assembly and scaffolding pipelines for highly repetitive plant genomes, with a focus on resolving structural variation in wild crop relatives.
Studies the genomic basis of stress tolerance in orphan cereals, combining population-scale resequencing with comparative analyses to find adaptive variants.
Lab Manager coordinating sequencing logistics, sample tracking, and computational resources for the group, and keeping assembly and analysis workflows reproducible across projects.
