HUANG Kaichi

Basic information

Kaichi HUANG

Associate Professor, doctoral supervisor

E-mail: huangkch5@mail.sysu.edu.cn

We are now recruiting master and doctoral students, as well as postdoctoral researchers from the fields of evolutionary biology, genomics, bioinformatics, computer science, etc. Welcome to contact us.

Research Area

Genetic mechanisms of adaptation and speciation

Formation and evolution of genomic structural variations

Molecular evolution driven by hybridization and natural selection

Education/Work experience

2024-Present, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Ecology, Associate Professor

2021-2023, University of British Columbia, Postdoctoral Fellow

2016-2021, University of British Columbia, PhD

2011-2015, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Life Sciences, Biological Science, BS

Professional Activities

Junior Editorial Board member, Molecular Ecology, Molecular Ecology Resources, Journal of Systematics and Evolution, and Biological Diversity

Reviewer for Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Molecular Biology and Evolution, New Phytologist, the Plant Journal, Molecular Ecology, Molecular Ecology Resources, Horticulture Research, Evolutionary Applications, Frontiers in Plant Science, iScience, Genome Biology and Evolution, Biology Letters, Gene, PeerJ, Genes

Project reviewer for Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France

Publications

• Huang, K., Ostevik, K. L., Jahani, M., Todesco, M., Bercovich, N., Andrew, R. L., Owens, G. L., Rieseberg, L. H. (2025). Inversions contribute disproportionately to parallel genomic divergence in dune sunflowers. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 9(2), 325-335.
• Whiting, J. R., Booker, T. R., Rougeux, C., Lind, B. M., Singh, P., Lu, M., Huang, K., Whitlock, M . C., Aitken, S. N., Andrew, R. L., Borevitz, J. O., Bruhl, J. J., Collins, T. L., Fischer, M. C., Hodgins, K. A., Holliday, J. A., Ingvarsson, P. K., Janes, J. K., Khandaker, M., Koenig, D., Kreiner, J. M., Kremer, A., Lascoux, M., Leroy, T., Milesi, P., Murray, K. D., Pyhäjärvi, T., Rellstab, C., Rieseberg, L. H., Roux, F., Stinchcombe, J. R., Telford, I. R. H., Todesco, M., Tyrmi, J. S., Wang, B., Weigel, D., Willi, Y., Wright, S. I., Zhou, L., Yeaman, S. (2024). The genetic architecture of repeated local adaptation to climate in distantly related plants. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8(10), 1933-1947.
• Rieseberg, L., Warschefsky, E., Burton, J., Huang, K., & Sibbett, B. (2024). Editorial 2024. Molecular Ecology, 33(1), e17239.
• Zhou, W., Zhang, N., Huang, K., Lin, H., Tu, J., Zheng, C., Que, P., Chiang, C.-Y., Martinez, J., Naerhulan, H., Székely, T., Zhang, Z., & Liu, Y. (2024). Divergent selection in low recombination regions shapes the genomic islands in two incipient shorebird species. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 41(2), msae006.
• Bock, D. G., Cai, Z., Elphinstone, C., González-Segovia, E., Hirabayashi, K., Huang, K., Keais, G. L., Kim, A., Owens, G. L., & Rieseberg, L. H. (2023). Genomics of plant speciation. Plant Communications, 4(5), 100599.
• Owens, G. L., Todesco, M., Huang, K., & Rieseberg, L. H. (2023). Re-evaluating homoploid reticulate evolution in the annual sunflowers. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 40(2), msad013.
• Huang, K., Jahani, M., Gouzy, J., Legendre, A., Carrere, S., Lázaro-Guevara, J. M., Segovia, E. G. G., Todesco, M., Mayjonade, B., Rodde, N. and Cauet, S., Dufau, I., Staton, S. E., Pouilly, N., Boniface, M.-C., Tapy, C., Mangin, B., Duhnen, A., Gautier, V., Poncet, C., Donnadieu, C., Mandel, T., Hübner, S., Burke, J. M., Vautrin, S., Bellec, A., Owens, G. L., Langlade, N., Muños, S., & Rieseberg, L. H. (2023). The genomics of linkage drag in inbred lines of sunflower. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(14), e2205783119.
• Guidini, R., Jahani, M., Huang, K., Rieseberg, L. H., & Mathew, F. M. (2023). Genome wide association mapping in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) reveals common loci and putative candidate genes for resistance to Diaporthe gulyae and D. helianthi causing Phomopsis stem canker. Plant Disease, 107(3):667-674.
• Bercovich, N., Genze, N., Todesco, M., Owens, G. L., Légaré, J.-S., Huang, K., Rieseberg, L. H., & Grimm, D. G. (2022). HeliantHOME, a public and centralized database of phenotypic sunflower data. Scientific Data, 9(1), 735.
• Guo, Z., Xu, S., Xie, W., Shao, S., Feng, X., He, Z., Zhong, C., Huang, K., Wu, C.-I., & Shi, S. (2022). Adaptation to a new environment with pre-adaptive genomic features - Evidence from woody plants colonizing the land-sea interface. The Plant Journal, 111(5), 1411-1424.
• Lee, J. S., Jahani, M., Huang, K., Mandel, J. R., Marek, L. F., Burke, J. M., Langlade, N. B., Owens, G. L., & Rieseberg, L. H., (2022). Expression complementation of gene presence/absence polymorphisms in hybrids contributes importantly to heterosis in sunflower. Journal of Advanced Research, 42, 83-98.
• Huang, K., Ostevik, K. L., Elphinstone, C., Todesco, M., Bercovich, N., Owens, G. L., & Rieseberg, L. H., (2022). Mutation load in sunflower inversions is negatively correlated with inversion heterozygosity. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39(5), msac101.
• Todesco, M., Owens, G. L., Bercovich, N., Légaré, J.-S., Soudi, S., Burge, D. O., Huang, K., Ostevik, K. L., Drummond, E. B. M., Imerovski, I., Lande, K., Pascual, M. A., Cheung, W., Staton, S. E., Muños, S., Nielsen, R., Donovan, L. A., Burke, J. M., Yeaman, S., & Rieseberg, L. H. (2020). Massive haplotypes underlie ecotypic differentiation in sunflowers. Nature, 584(7822), 602-607.
• Huang, K., Andrew, R. L., Owens, G. L., Ostevik, K. L., & Rieseberg, L. H. (2020). Multiple chromosomal inversions contribute to adaptive divergence of a dune sunflower ecotype. Molecular Ecology, 29(14), 2535-2549.
• Huang, K., & Rieseberg, L. H. (2020). Frequency, origins, and evolutionary role of chromosomal inversions in plants. Frontiers in Plant Science, 11, 296.
• Zhang, J.-Q., Imerovski, I., Borkowski, K., Huang, K., Burge, D., & Rieseberg, L. H. (2019). Intraspecific genetic divergence within Helianthus niveus and the status of two new morphotypes from Mexico. American Journal of Botany, 106: 1229-1239.
• Shi, X., Liu, W., Huang, K. (2015). Bryophyta and Pteridophyta of Heishiding Natural Reserve. Higher Education Press, Beijing.