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Feng Tian
Post-doctoral Associate
2007-2011
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EDUCATION
● Ph.D. in Crop Genetics and Breeding June 2007
China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
● B. S. in Agronomy July 2002
Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, China
RESEARCH INTERESTS
● Study the genetic and developmental changes that have occurred during plant evolution (especially crop domestication) ; Evolutional and comparative genomics
● Integrate the advantages of linkage analysis and association mapping to identify QTL for important quantitative traits
● Dissect the genetic architecture of complex traits, and develop and apply genomic tools for the improvement of crops
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Postdoctoral Associate, Ed Buckler lab September 2007 – November 2011
Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University
● Dissect the genetic architecture of maize leaf with NAM (Nested Association Mapping). Use joint linkage analysis to identify QTLs for important leaf traits. After projecting parental sequence to NAM, use whole genome association mapping to dissect QTL to QTN.
● Characterize the molecular and adaptive nature of the maize flowering time QTL . Use joint linkage analysis, association mapping and positional cloning to identify the molecular variants responsible for flowering time QTL. Use molecular population genetics method to study the adaptive nature of flowering time QTL.
Graduate student, Chuanqing Sun lab September 2002 - June 2007
Department of Plant Genetics and Breeding, China Agricultural University
● Identified a quantitative trait locus key to rice panicle domestication from wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.) using map-based cloning
● Constructed a set of introgression lines carrying wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.) segments in cultivated rice (O. sativa L.) background and characterized introgressed segments associated with yield-related traits
● In search of heterotic loci associated with yield-related traits derived from wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.) and revealed the genetic basis of heterosis between wild rice and cultivated rice
● Assisted in fine mapping of the yield-improving QTL qGY2–1 from wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.)
PUBLICATIONS
Tian F, Stevens NM and Buckler ES (2009) Tracking footprints of maize domestication and evidence for a massive selective sweep on chromosome 10. PNAS 106: 9979-9986
Li XR, Tian F, Huang HY, Tan LB, Zhu ZF, Hu SN and Sun CQ (2008) Construction of the physical map of the gpa7 locus reveals that a large segment was deleted during rice domestication. Plant Cell Reports 27: 1087-1092
Tian F, Zhu ZF, Zhang BS, Tan LB, Fu YC, Wang XK, Sun CQ (2006) Fine mapping of a quantitative trait locus for grain number per panicle from wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.) Theor Appl Genet 113: 619-629
Tian F, Li DJ, Fu Q, Zhu ZF, Fu YC, Wang XK, Sun CQ (2006) Construction of introgression lines carrying wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.) segments in cultivated rice (O. sativa L.) background and characterization of introgressed segments associated with yield-related traits. Theor Appl Genet 112: 570-580
He GM, Luo XJ, Tian F, Wang XK, Li KG, Zhu ZF, Sun CQ, Yang JS (2006) Haplotype variation in structure and expression of a gene cluster associated with a quantitative trait locus for improved yield in rice. Genome Res 16: 618-626
Zhou SX, Tian F, Zhu ZF, Fu YC, Wang XK, Sun CQ.（2006）Identification of quantitative trait loci controlling drought tolerance at seedling stage in Chinese Dongxiang common wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.). Acta Genetica Sinica 33(6): 551-558
HONORS
● Baosteel scholarship, Baosteel Education Fund (BSEF) , China November 2006
CONFERENCES and PRESENTATIONS
Tian F, Peter, Bradbury,Huihui Li, The Maize Diversity Project. The genetic architecture of maize leaf. 51th Aunual Maize Genetics Conference, March 12 - 15, 2009, Illinois
Tian F, Peter, Bradbury,Huihui Li, The Maize Diversity Project. Use nested association mapping (NAM) to fine map maize chromosome 10 flowering time QTL. 50th Annual Maize Genetics Conference, February 27- March 1, 2008, Washington D.C.
Sun CQ, Tian F, Li DJ, Fu Q, Zhu ZF, Fu YC, Wang XK. Yield improvement by common wild rice. 10th International Congress of SABRAO. August 22-23, 2005, Tsukuba, Japan
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