Academic title/Position: Professor
Education background:
(1) BSc: Central South Forestry University, HuNan Province, China. Major: Biotechnology.
(2) MSc: Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF), BeiJing, China. Major: Forest Tree Genetics and Breeding
(3) PhD: Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. Major: Plant Pathology
Research fields:
Forest pathology; Phylogeny and evolution of plantation pathogenic fungi; Mechanism of occurrence and expansion of fungal diseases in plantation forests; Pathogenesis mechanism of pathogenic fungi in plantation forests, and selection of disease resistance plantation tree materials.
Study abroad experience:
(1) PhD study: June, 2007 – January, 2011: Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria (UP), Pretoria, South Africa. Major: Plant Pathology.
(2) Post-doc: February, 2011 – May, 2012: Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria (UP), Pretoria, South Africa. Major: Plant Pathology.
(3) Post-doc: May, 2012 – June, 2013: Department of Plant Pathology, University of California-Davis, California, United States. Major: Plant Pathology.
Representative works:
(1) Liu QL, Li JQ, Wingfield MJ, Duong TA, Wingfield BD, Crous PW, Chen SF*. 2020. Reconsideration of species boundaries and proposed DNA barcodes for Calonectria. Studies in Mycology. 97: 100106
(2) Li JQ, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ, Barne I, Fourie A, Crous PW, Chen SF*. 2020. Mating genes in Calonectria and evidence for a heterothallic ancestral state. Persoonia. 45: 163–176.
(3) Li GQ, Liu FF, Li JQ, Liu QL, Chen SF*. 2018. Botryosphaeriaceae from Eucalyptus plantations and adjacent plants in China. Persoonia. 40: 63–95.
(4) Li JQ, Wingfield MJ, Barnes I, Chen SF*. 2022. Calonectria in the age of genes and genomes: Towards understanding an important but relatively unknown group of pathogens. Molecular Plant Pathology. 23: 1060–1072.
(5) Liang XY, Wang QC, Chen SF*. 2023. Phylogeny, Morphology, Distribution, and Pathogenicity of Seven Calonectria Species from Leaf Blighted Eucalyptus in HaiNai Island, China. Plant Disease. 107(9): 2579–2605.
Research projects:
(1) The Youth Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Project No. 31622019), 2015-2017;
(2) The Excellent Youth Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Project No. 31622019), 2017-2019;
(3) The Top Young Talents Program in National Special Support Program for High-level Talents (Ten-thousand Talents Program) of China (project no. W03070115), 2018-2021.
Email: shuaifeichen@126.com