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Jun Wen

Adjunct Professor

Research Botanist and Curator, National Museum of Natural History

Bio

Institute for Biodiversity Genomics – Smithsonian

Since 1985, Wen has specialized in the systematics and biogeography of Asian and New World intercontinental disjunct plants—species that are evolutionarily related but widely separated from each other geographically. Her current concentration on the ginseng and grape plant families takes her around the world. She does field work in rural China and elsewhere, collecting plant samples and specimens, while in the Laboratories of Analytical Biology (LAB) at the National Museum of Natural History she and her students use advanced genomic methods to delve into the evolution of genetically related groups of organisms, a field of study known as molecular phylogenetics.

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