Jiangchun Wei (Ph.D.)
 
Systematic Mycology and Lichenology Laboratory
Institute of Microbiology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing 100080, P. R. China
Phone 086-10-6257-5241
Fax: 086-10-6256-0912
E-mail: weijc@public.east.cn.net
 
Education and the Highest Academic Title:
 
Ph.D. The Graduate School and the Komarov Botanical Institute, Academy of Sciences of USSR, May 23, 1962, Leningrad.
Dr. BioSCi. The Komarov Botanical Institute, The Russian Academy of Sciences, May 24, 1995, St. Petersburg.
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, elected on October 24, 1997 in Beijing.
 
Professional Appointments:
 
Research Associate, Associate Research Professor, Research Professor, Institue of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 1962- present
Visiting Scientist, the Umea University, the Stockholm Museum of Natural History, and Uppsala University, Sweden, Aug. - Nov. 1982.
Visiting Scientist, the University of Helsinki and Turku University, Findland, Nov. 1982-Jan 1983.
Visiting Scientist, the Antarctic Research Station of Chile in the King George Island of the South Shetland Islands, Antartica, Dec. 1983- Feb. 1984.
Director, the Systematic Mycology & Lichenology Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SMLL), Beijing, 1985-1993.
Council Member, Academic Council of National Antarctic Research of China, 1986-1992.
Visiting Scientist, the British Museum of Natural History in London and the Royal Botanic Garden in Edingburg, United Kingdom, Sept.-Nov. 1989.
Visiting Scientist, Farlow Herbarium and Reference Library, Harvard University in Cambridge; the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and the National Herbarium of the United States, Washington D.C. Nov. 1989-May 1990.
Visiting Scientist, Komarov Botanical Institute, Academy of Sciences of USSR, Leningrad, May-June 1990.
Member, the Committee of Developement of Systematics, Florology and Fauna of the Chinese Acadamy of Sciences, 1990.
Chairman of the Academic Council, Systematic Mycology & Lichenology Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1993-present
Member , The Science Committee of Endangered Species of the People's Republic of China, 1996 - present
Visiting Scientist, the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Oct. 1996- Feb. 1997.
Research Associate, Department of Botany, the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA 1997-present
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, elected on October 24, 1997 in Beijing.
 
Research Interests:
 
Systematics, biodiversity, and biogeography of lichens, particularly Umbilicariaceae and foliicolous lichens.
 
Awards and Scholarships:
 
The most outstanding prize of Science and Technology Progress for the study on lichen flora of Xizang (Tibet), Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1986.
 
The most outstanding prize of Science and Technology Progress for the Study on Terrestial Ecosystem of the Fildes Peninsula in Antartica , Chinese National Department of Seas and Oceans, I996.
 
Selected Publications Mostly Related to the Project:
 
Wei, J.-C and Jiang, Y.-M. 1981. A biogeographical analysis of the lichen flora of Mtn. Qomolangma region in Xizang. Proceedings of Symposium on Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau. Pp. 1145-1151, Beijing, China.
 
Wei, J.-C. and Jiang, Y.-M. 1986. Lichens of Xizang. Pp.1-130, Science Press, Beijing, China.
 
Wei, J.-C. and Jiang, Y.-M. 1989. The status of the genus Llanoa Dodge and the delimitation of the genera of the Umbilicariaceae (Ascomycotina). Mycosystema 2:135-150.
 
Wei, J.-C and Biazrov, L.G. 1991. Some disjunctions and vicariisms in the Umbilcariaceae (Ascomycotina). Mycosystema 4:65-72.
 
Wei, J.-C and Jiang, Y.-M. 1991. Some folicolous lichens in Xishuangbanna, China. In Tropical Lichens: Their Systematics, Conservation, and Ecology. Edited by D.J. Galloway, pp. 210-216. (The Systematics Association Special Volume No. 43) Oxford Science Publications.
 
Wei, J.-C. 1991. An enumeration of lichens in China.pp.1-278. International Academic Publishers, Beijing.
 
Wei, J.-C. and Jiang, Y.-M. 1993. The Asian Umbilicariaceae. Pp.1-217. International Academic Publishers, Beijing.
 
Niu, Y.-C. and Wei, J.-C. 1993. Variations in ITS2 sequences of nuclear rDNA from two Lasallia species and their systematic significance. Mycosystema 6:25-29.
 
Wei, J.-C., Hu, Y.-C., Jiang, Y.-M. and Chen, J.-B. 1994. A study on divergent characters of populations in Usnea montis-fuji Mot. Acta Mycol. Sin. 13(3):199-204.
 
Wei, J.-C. 1995. Analiz systematiki I geograohii lishainikov sem. Umbilicariaceae vostochnio Azii Avtoreferat dissertacii na soiskamie uchenoi stepeni doctora biologicheskih nauk. Rossinskaya Academiya Nauk, Botanicheskii Institut im. V.L. Komarva, S. Peterburg, 1995:1-33. In Russian. (Analysis of systematics and geograohy of lichen family Umbilicariaceae from eastern Asia- An essay based on the dissertation of the requirements for Academic Degree Doctor of Biological Sciences from the Komarov Botanical Insititute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 1995).
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