General
Miao Miao
Email: miaomiao@gucas.ac.cn
Telephone: 010-88256585
Address: A19 Yuquanlu, Shijingshan District, Beijing 
Postcode: 100049

Research Areas

Protozoology; molecular phylogeny and evolution; population genetics.

Education

2004. 9 – 2009. 6 Ocean University of China, PhD in Genetics. 
2000. 9 – 2004. 6 Ocean University of China, B.S. degree in Marine Biology

visiting experiences
2008. 9 – 2008. 11 North Carolina Central University (Durham, NC, United States) 
2007.8 – 2007.9 Natural History Museum (London, United Kingdom)

Experience

   
Work Experience
2011.08 – now College of Life sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2009. 7 – 2011.8 Postdoc, Penn State University

Publications

(1) Miao M., Yang Z., Patch H., Huang Y., Escalante A.A., Cui L. Plasmodium vivax populations revisited: mitochondrial genomes of temperate strains in Asia suggest ancient population expansion. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2012, 12, 22.
(2) Gao F., Strüder-Kypke M.C., Yi Z., Miao M., Al-Farraj S.A., Song W. Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic distinction of six genera of pathogenic scuticociliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) inferred from small-subunit rRNA gene sequences. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2012, 62, 246-256.
(3) Zhang Q., Miao M.*, Strüder-Kypke M.C., Al-Rasheid K.A.S., Al-Farraj S.A., Song W. Molecular evolution of Cinetochilum and Sathrophilus (Protozoa, Ciliophora): phylogenetic analyses based on SSU rDNA information. Zoologica Scripta, 2011, 40, 317-325.(*corresponding author)
(4) Miao M., Shao C., Chen X., Song W. Evolution of discocephalid ciliates: Molecular, morphological and ontogenetic data support a sister group of discocephalids and pseudoamphisiellids (Protozoa, Ciliophora) with establishment of a new suborder Pseudoamphisiellina subord. n. Science China Life Science 2011, 54, 634–641.
(5) Yang Z., Li C., Miao M., Zhang Z., Sun X., Meng H., Li J., Fan Q., Cui L. High prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum multidrug resistance genotypes, northeast Myanmar. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2011, 17, 498-501.
(6) Miao M., Yang Z., Cui L., Ahlum J., Huang Y., and Cui L. Different Allele Prevalence in the Dihydrofolate Reductase and Dihydropteroate Synthase Genes in Plasmodium vivax Populations from China. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2010, 83, 1206-1211.
(7) Miao M., Wang Y., Song W., Clamp J.C., Al-Rasheid K.A.S. Description of Eurystoma sinicum n. gen., n. sp., with establishment of a new family Eurystomatidae n. fam. (Protista, Ciliophora, Scuticociliatia) and analyses of its phylogeny inferred from sequences of small subunit rRNA gene. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2010, 60, 460-468.
(8) Miao M., Wang Y., Li L., Al-Rasheid K.A.S., Song W. Molecular phylogeny of the scuticociliate Philaster (Protozoa, Ciliophora), with description of a new species P. apodigitiformis sp. nov. Systematics and Biodiversity 2009, 7, 381-388.
(9Miao M., Song W., Clamp J.C., Al-Rasheid K.A.S, Al-Khedhairy A.A., Al-Arifi S. Further consideration of the phylogeny of some “traditional” heterotrichs (Protista, Ciliophora) of uncertain affinities, based on new sequences of the small subunit rRNA gene. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 2009, 56, 244-250.
(10) Miao M., Shao C., Jiang J., Li L., Stoeck T., Song W. Caryotricha minuta (Xu et al. 2008) nov. comb., a unique marine ciliate (Protista, Ciliophora, Spirotrichea), with phylogenetic analysis of the ambiguous genus Caryotricha inferred from small-subunit rRNA gene sequence. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2009, 59, 430-438.
(11) Miao M., Warren A., Song W., Wang S. Shang H., Chen Z. Analysis of the internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) region of Scuticociliates and related taxa (Ciliophora, Oligohemenophorea) to infer their evolution and phylogeny. Protist 2008, 159, 519-533.
(12) Miao M., Song W., Al-Rasheid K.A.S., Chen Z., Shao C., Jiang J., Guo W. A unique euplotid ciliate, Gastrocirrhus (Protozoa, Ciliophora): assessment of its phylogenetic position inferred from the small subunit rRNA gene sequence. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 2007, 54, 371-378.

Students

已指导学生

刘晓荟  硕士研究生  085238-生物工程  

何明  硕士研究生  085238-生物工程  

黄宁  硕士研究生  085238-生物工程  

左昌凌  硕士研究生  071009-细胞生物学  

杨静雯  硕士研究生  071009-细胞生物学  

侯丽娜  硕士研究生  071010-生物化学与分子生物学  

现指导学生

张天城  硕士研究生  071010-生物化学与分子生物学  

李在涵  硕士研究生  071010-生物化学与分子生物学  

宋琦  硕士研究生  071010-生物化学与分子生物学  

卢旭琦  硕士研究生  071010-生物化学与分子生物学  

唐颖  硕士研究生  071010-生物化学与分子生物学