Zhang Ling

Biography

Date of Birth: April 22, 1970 (Yunnan, P. R. China) Education: 2002-2006 Kunming Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ph. D. 1994 Atagawa Tropical Botanical Garden, Japan, horticulture training (3 months) 1994-1995 Muncaster Castle Garden, Combria, U.K., horticulture training (one year) 1987-1991 Biology Department, Yunnan University, B. D. Research Experience: 2007- Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. USA. 2004- Associate Professor, Member of Evolutionary Ecology of Plant and Animal Interaction Research Group. 1999-2003 Assistant Professor, Member of Evolutionary Ecology of Plant and Animal Interaction Research Group. 1997-1999 Assistant Professor of Horticulture Department of XTBG, taking charge of the arboretum. 1991-1997 Working in the Horticulture Department of XTBG, taking charge of the arboretum.

Research Interest

Sytematics and evolution of reproductive traits, the adaptive radiation and evolution of morphological traits, and the reproductive biology and population genetics structure in Tacca.