Shih-Chung Hsu

Ph.D. Student
shih-chunghsu(at)wustl.edu
shihchunghsu(at)gmail.com
(314) 935-7230

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• NSF Weedy Rice Project
• NGS Coconut Project
• NSF White Clover Project
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Education:
2006-present Ph.D. student - Dept. Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
MSc. Biology - Universiteit Leiden, Nederlands
BSc. Forestry - National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Research Interests:
I am broadly interested in plant domestication, phylogenetics and molecular evolution. My Ph.D. research focuses on plant molecular genetics. Currently I am using functional genes and genome-wide sequence-tagged site (STS) loci to study the origin and evolution of weedy rice (Oryza sativa L.) across broad geographic regions including Asia, Europe, North and South America. My Ph.D. project is an international collaboration with researchers in Japan, S. Korea, Thailand, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Brazil and Uruguay. I am co-advised by Drs. Barbara A. Schaal and Kenneth M. Olsen.

Journal Articles:
Beridze, T., I. Pipia, J. Beck, S.-C. Hsu, M. Gamkrelidze, M. Gogniashvili, V. Tabidze, P. This, R. Bacilieri, V. Gotsiridze, M. Glonti and B. Schaal. 2011. Plastid DNA sequence diversity in a worldwide set of grapevine cultivars (Vitis vinifera L. subsp. vinifera). Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences 5: 98-103.

Gross, B.L., M. Reagon, S.-C. Hsu, A.L. Caicedo, Y. Jia and K.M. Olsen. 2010. Seeing red: The origin of grain pigmentation in US weedy rice. Molecular Ecology 19: 3380-3393.

Olsen, K.M., S.-C. Hsu and L.L. Small. 2008. Evidence on the molecular basis of the Ac/ac adaptive cyanogenesis polymorphism in white clover (Trifolium repens L.). Genetics 179: 517-526.

Hsu, S.-C., B. Gravendeel and E.F. de Vogel. 2005. Taxonomic revision of Geesinkorchis (Coelogyninae; Epidendroideae; Orchidaceae). Blumea 50(3): 505-517.

Yao, Nathan Y.-N. and S.-C. Hsu. 1996. A preliminary biological study of two varieties of Mitrastemon yamamotoi separately at Chi-tou and Lien-hwa-chi in Taiwan. Quarterly Journal of the Experimental Forest of National Taiwan University 10(2): 131-144. (in Madarin with English abstract)

Above: Two photos of weedy rice in a rice paddy, Japan.

Above: Rice field at historic villages of Shirakawa-go, Japan. UNESCO World Heritage Site.