Research Interests

(1) Molecular taxonomy Molecular taxonomy pipeline and methodology; Species delineation with information from single locus or multiple loci; The automatic approaches basing on public database. (2) Molecular systematics Screening multiple genes for insect phylogenetic reconstruction; Integrate the laboratory data and the public database, data mining, build the super matrix, and reconstructing phylogenetic tree at the species level; Data simulation and case study on common basic questions in molecular systematics. (3) Hymenoptera Systematics The research of systematics and functional morphology on Chalcidoidea (Eulophidae, Encyrtidae) and Apoidea; Focusing on Hymenoptera, study the insect molecular taxonomy and molecular systematics via data mining and integration of the laboratory data and the public database. Reconstruction of the phylogenetic tree to study the evolutionary relationship between parasitic Chalcidoidea and host insects, bees and host plants. Develop the China-Australia Virtual Laboratory on Taxonomy to promote international collaboration among taxonomists to study Hymenoptera in China; Via different sampling methods, especially the host baits, Malaise traps, artificial nest etc. to set up a long-term species sampling and monitoring network of Hymenoptera in different ecological zones in China.