Contact:
Qiuyun (Jenny) Xiang
Professor
Department of PMB
Raleigh, NC 27695-7612
Phone: x0y-j0k-bsat
Email: jenny_xiang at ncsu.edu
Learn about Jenny's journey to the botany career
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Molecular systematics, biogeography, evolutionary developmental genetics and conservation genetics, with emphases on the dogwoods and relatives (Cornales), rare or endangered plant species, and intercontinental disjunct plant taxa in the northern hemisphere.
EDUCATION
B. S. in Plant Genetics, Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University, Guangzhou, China (1982)
Ph.D., Botany-Plant Molecular Systematics, Washington State University (1995)
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
• July 2012 - present: Professor, Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University (NCSU)
• July 2006 – July 2012: Associate Professor, Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology, NCSU
• Jan. 2001 – June 2006: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology, NCSU
• Aug. 1997 – Dec. 2000: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University
• Aug. 1997 – Dec. 2000: Curator of the R. J. Davis Herbarium, Idaho Museum of Natural History
• Aug. 1995 - July 1997: Post-doctoral Research Associate, Ohio State University (OSU)
• Aug. 1992 - May 1995: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Washington State University (WSU)
• Jan. 1990 - Dec. 1991: Curatorial Assistant, Marion Ownbey Herbarium, WSU
• July 1989 - Jan. 1990: Research Associate, Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University
• Mar. 1989 - June 1989: Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
• Aug. 1982 - Jan. 1990: Assistant Researcher, Dept. of Taxonomy, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China