The Yang Lab seeks to understand the patterns and drivers of plant diversity.

​We combine field and collection-based approaches with phylogenetics, transcriptomics and genomics to reconstruct species relationships and to study polyploidy, reticulate evolution, and gene families involved in pigmentation, plant carnivory, and stress tolerance. 

Lab News
  • May 2018: Rebekah Mohn won the American Society of Plant Taxonomists' t-shirt contest with a beautiful drawing of the twinflower (Linnaea borealis). Congratulations!
  • Apr 2018: New review paper by Ya Yang and four other first-year PIs and postdocs on phylogenomic methods in plants: Practical considerations for plant phylogenomics
  • Mar 2018: Rebekah Mohn visited University of Michigan over the spring break to work with Stephen Smith on niche evolution in Drosera and participated in the Early Career Scientists Symposium. 
  • Jan 2018: Lab manager and founding lab member Yinyin Huang is accepted by her dream PharmD program at University of Minnesota, starting Fall 2018. Congratulations, Yinyin!
  • Oct 2017: First lab trip! Missouri Botanical Garden Fall Symposium​​