{"id":13099,"date":"2022-09-21T17:11:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T21:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/?p=13099"},"modified":"2023-10-11T15:20:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T19:20:39","slug":"early-career-scientist-spotlight-honghe-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/2022\/09\/21\/early-career-scientist-spotlight-honghe-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Career Scientist Spotlight | Honghe Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Honghe Sun is a graduate student working on a PhD in Dr. Zhangjun Fei<\/strong><\/a>‘s Lab at Boyce Thompson Institute<\/strong><\/a>. The focus of his work is genomics.<\/p>\n

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Honghe Sun checking watermelon chromosome synteny<\/p><\/div>\n

What is your hometown?<\/strong>
\nLiaoyang, Liangning Province, China<\/p>\n

What is your favorite crop?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Watermelon.<\/p>\n

Introduce yourself\u2014your background, where you are now, and your current research focus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019d been a visiting student in Dr. Zhangjun Fei\u2019s Lab for five years and was involved in the genome assembly and population resequencing projects of watermelon, Cucurbita maxima<\/em>, Cucurbita moschata<\/em>, and other plants. Currently, I am a 3rd-year Plant Biology Ph.D. student at Cornell University, focusing on sequencing-based genomics studies in cucurbits in this lab.<\/p>\n

Why did you choose to work with cucurbit genomics?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I entered this field in the first watermelon genome assembly project, and recognized the power of bioinformatics in the following projects that I participated in. Through various applications of genomics, I built an interest in the genome evolution and domestication of cucurbits. I believe the outcome of these studies will help breeding programs a lot.<\/p>\n

What do you hope to accomplish during your time working on the CucCAP grant, and what do you most look forward to in this position?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope to identify agronomic traits-related genes and variants comprehensively through constructing a graph-based pan-genome covering the Citrullus<\/em> genus.<\/p>\n

Please provide a brief description of your research.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reference-grade genomes will be developed for all 7 species of Citrullus<\/em> genus, which includes the cultivated watermelon (Citrullus lanatus<\/em> subsp. vulgaris<\/em>). These high-quality assemblies will allow us to construct a genus-scale graph-based pan-genome and capture a variation map, including SNPs and structural variants (SVs), by integrating whole-genome resequencing data from a broader population range. I will apply comparative genomics, selective sweep, and association analyses to identify genes and variants associated with traits of interest, and explore insights into the evolution of watermelon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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