Email: lian@anesc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Phone: +81-424-65-5601
Fax: +81-424-65-5601
Background
I received my B. S. in soil science and agrochemistry and M. S. in plant nutrition and physiology from Nanjing Agricultural University, China. From 1989 to1994, I had been working as an assistant professor in College of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Nanjing Agricultural University. In 1999, I received Ph. D. in science of biological resources from Gifu University, Japan. Prior to my service as an associate professor in 2003 at Asian Natural Environmental Science Center, the University of Tokyo, I joined the center in 1999 as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
Research
My research focuses on the population genetic structure and reproduction of tree and ectomycorrhizal species by molecular markers in a forest ecosystem. I have used microsatellite markers to analyze the mating pattern of Japanese red pine in an isolated stand, the genetic structure and reproduction dynamics of Salix reinii (willow) during primary succession on Mount Fuji, Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust) on the dry riverbed, and Tricholoma matsutake (ectomycorrhiza) in a natural forest of Japanese red pine. To enhance the database for biodiversity management and conservation, I am interested in research on the population genetics of all species in the forest ecosystem with different features. Moreover, not only the forest ecosystem, I am also interested in research on other ecosystems. Recently, the research on the population genetics of toxic dinoflagellate distributed over the Japanese coast has been done in collaborating with Dr. Satoshi Nagai, National Research Institute of Fisheries and Environment of Inland Sea, Japan.
Interests
Playing table tennis with the family in the weekend is most interesting.