We investigate how plant diversity arises and how genomes and plant form evolve.
We develop methods to recover and represent complex biological structures from incomplete, heterogeneous observations, making them useful for comparison and evolutionary inference.
Our research
We study how the three-dimensional organization of flowers evolves and relates to function, combining image-based reconstruction with quantitative comparisons on phylogenetic trees.
Explore this themeWe use phylogenetic and genomic evidence to understand plant relationships and evolution. Organelle genomes are a major interest, from their assembly and structural variation to what their histories reveal about plant diversification.
Explore this themeOrganelleAudit was approved for Anthropic’s AI for Science Program, with $50,000 in Claude usage credits.
Our project “From Living Flowers to AI-Ready 3D Morphology” received an NYBG Pilot award.
Dr. Jin was named among Scientific American’s Young American Scientists.
Our Bulbophyllum shape–scent project was selected for NYBG–BTI collaborative seed funding supported by the Triad Foundation.