Educational experience：

Statement：

Main research interests: Understanding the molecular mechanisms and evolutionary patterns underlying diversification of important traits concomitant with lineage evolution using evo-devo approaches. Recently, we mainly focus on the capitulum architecture evolution and flower color differentiation within the Chrysanthemum group, as well as the diversification of leaf margin morphology within Chrysanthemum indicum complex.

Selected Publication：

Shen, C. Z. #, & Tian, X. J. (2015). Flora of Jiangsu-Juncaceae (2nd eds.). 5, 60-68.

Chen, J. #, Shen, C. Z. #, Guo, Y. P., & Rao, G. Y. (2018). Patterning the Asteraceae capitulum: duplications and differential expression of the flower symmetry CYC2-like genes. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9, 551.

Chen, D., Ke, J. X., Shen, C. Z., Zhang, Y. F., & Guo, Y. P. (2020). Coexpression of parental homeologs of leaf dissection related genes are associated with intermediate leaf forms of two allotetraploid yarrows (Achillea, Asteraceae). Journal of Systematics and Evolution.

Shen, C. Z. #, Guo, P. K., & He, Z. Q. (2020). A pilot phylogeny study of Nemobiinae inferred from 18S, 28S and COI genes, with descriptions of two new genera and a new species from Hainan, China (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Trigonidiidae). Zootaxa, 4778, 383-390.

Meng, S. Y., Wu, L., & Shen, C. Z. (2020). Chrysanthemum bizarre, a new species of Chrysanthemum from Hunan, China. Phytotaxa, 442, 215-224.