Hongyu Jin

Hongyu Jin joined the Schnable Lab in 2019 as an Integrated Plant Biology PhD student co-advised by Prof. Schnable and Prof. Jinliang Yang. He earned his bachelor’s degree from China Agricultural University before starting graduate training, completed his PhD in August 2024, and then spent six months as a postdoctoral researcher working with Prof. Schnable before departing for a new position in China at the end of 2024.

In the News

May 15, 2024 Hongyu Jin defends PhD
Congratulations to Hongyu Jin for defending his PhD dissertation. Hongyu will be sticking around as a postdoc here in the lab to finish up some work on phenotyping gene edited lines before moving on to his real postdoc at South China Agricultural University. He tells us he’s really excited to be moving back to a place with good food.
February 12, 2024 Maize Genome Conference presentations
The Schnable Lab presented at the Maize Genome Conference hosted in Raleigh, NC. Two of our grad students presented lightning talks about their posters: Nikee Shrestha and Michael Tross. In addition, Harshita Mangal, Hongyu Jin, Vladimir Torres, Jensina Davis, Waqar Ali, and Ramesh Kanna presented posters.

Recent Publications

Jin H, Park A, Sreedasyam A, Li G, Ge Y, Swaminathan K, Schmutz J, Clemente TE, Schnable JC, Yang J (2025) Nitrogen response and growth trajectory of sorghum CRISPR-Cas9 mutants using high-throughput phenotyping. Genomics Communications doi: 10.48130/gcomm-0025-0011 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2024.12.13.624727
Istipliler D, Tross MC, Bouwens B, Jin H, Yufeng Ge, Yang J, Mural RV, Schnable JC (2025) Heritability, heterosis, and hybrid/inbred classification ability of maize leaf hyperspectral signals under changing soil nitrogen. Crop Science doi: 10.1002/csc2.70073
Jin H, Tross MC, Tan R, Newton L, Mural RV, Yang J, Thompson AM, Schnable JC (2024) Imitating the "breeder’s eye": predicting grain yield from measurements of non-yield traits. The Plant Phenome Journal doi: 10.1002/ppj2.20102 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2023.11.29.568906
Boatwright L, Sapkota S, Jin H, Schnable JC, Brenton Z, Boyles R, Kresovich S (2022) Sorghum association panel whole-genome sequencing establishes pivotal resource for dissecting genomic diversity. The Plant Journal doi: 10.1111/tpj.15853
Grzybowski M, Zweiner M, Jin H, Wijewardane NK, Atefi A, Naldrett MJ, Alvarez S, Ge Y, Schnable JC (2022) Variation in morpho-physiological and metabolic responses to low nitrogen stress across the sorghum association panel. BMC Plant Biology doi: 10.1101/2022.06.08.495271 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2022.06.08.495271
Mural RV, Sun G, Grzybowski M, Tross MC, Jin H, Smith C, Newton L, Andorf CM, Woodhouse MR, Thompson AM, Sigmon B, Schnable JC (2022) Association mapping across a multitude of traits collected in diverse environments identifies pleiotropic loci in maize. Gigascience doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giac080 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2022.02.25.480753