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  DATE:2018-05-24    
Infomation  
Name: Deming Wang
Title: Professor
Phone: 010-62761095
Position: Room 3415, New Geosciences Building
Email: dmwang@pku.edu.cn
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS    
1997.09--2002.01 Ph.D. School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University
1992.09--1995.07 M.S. Department of Geology, Peking University
1988.09--1992.07 B.S. The Department of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION  
2011.08--to now Professor: Peking University
2004.08--2011.07 Associate Professor: Peking University
2002.06--2004.07 Assistant Professor: Peking University
2004.10--2005.03 Postdoctoral Fellow: University of Graz, Austria
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
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RECENT COURSES TAUGHT
Palaeobotany and Palynology; Life in Earth History; Paleontology Frontiers
Palaeogeography; Special Topic on Paleobiology; Plant Evolution
Field Excursions on Geosciences
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANT HISTORY
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REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
1. Wang De-Ming, Meng Mei-Cen, Guo Yun. 2016. Pollen organ Telangiopsis sp. of Late Devonian seed plant and associated vegetative frond. PLOS ONE 11(1): e0147984.
2. Wang De-Ming, Basinger J.F., Huang Pu, Liu Le, Xue Jin-Zhuang, Meng Mei-Cen, Zhang Ying-Ying, Deng Zhen-Zhen. 2015. Latisemenia longshania, gen. et sp. nov., a new Late Devonian seed plant from China. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 282: 20151613.
3. Wang De-Ming, Liu Le. 2015. A new Late Devonian genus with seed plant affinities. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15:28.
4. Wang De-Ming, Liu Le, Guo Yun, Xue Jin-Zhuang, Meng Mei-Cen. 2015. A Late Devonian fertile organ with seed plant affinities from China. Scientific Reports, 5:10736.
5. Wang De-Ming, Xu Hong-He, Xue Jin-Zhuang, Wang Qi, Liu Le. 2015. Leaf evolution in early-diverging ferns: insights from a new fern-like plant from the Late Devonian of China. Annals of Botany, 115(7):1133-1148.
6. Wang De-Ming, Liu Le, Meng Mei-Cen, Xue Jin-Zhuang, Liu Tuo, Guo Yun. 2014. Cosmosperma polyloba gen. et sp. nov., a seed plant from the Upper Devonian of South China. Naturwissenschaften, 101(8):615-622.
7. Wang De-Ming, Meng Mei-Cen, Xue Jin-Zhuang, Basinger J.F., Guo Yun, Liu Le. 2014. Changxingia longifolia gen. et sp. nov., a new lycopsid from the Late Devonian of Zhejiang Province, South China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 203(2014): 35-47.
8. Wang De-Ming and Xiong Cong-Hui. 2014. Progress of studies on early land vascular plant evolution, palaeogeography and palaeoenvironment in China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 53(1):101-107.
9. Wang De-Ming. 2010. Early diversification of vascular plants-evidence from South China. Darwin’s heritage today (editors Manyuan Long, Hongya Gu, Zhonghe Zhou), Higher Education Press, Beijing: 357.
10. Wang De-Ming and Guo Yun. 2009. Hamatophyton from the Late Devonian of Anhui Province, South China and Evolution of Sphenophyllales. Acta Geologica Sinica, 83(3):492-503.
11. Wang De-Ming. 2008. A new iridopteridalean plant from the Middle Devonian of northwest China. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 169(8):1100–1115.
12. Wang De-Ming, Wan Zhen-Zhu, Cui Li. 2008. Further study of Sphenophyllum lungtanense, with a discussion on the evolution of the Late Devonian Sphenophyllales in South China. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis, 44(2): 177-184.
13. Wang De-Ming. 2007a. Tenuisa frasniana gen. et sp. nov., a plant of euphyllophyte affinity from the Late Devonian of China. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 168(9):1341–1349.
14. Wang De-Ming. 2007b. Two species of Zosterophyllum from South China and dating of the Xujiachong Formation with a biostratigraphic method. Acta Geologica Sinica, 81(4):525-538.
15. Wang De-Ming and Lin Ya-Juan. 2007. A new species of Metacladophyton from the Late Devonian of China. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 168(7):1067–1084.
16. Wang De-Ming, Hao Shou-Gang, Wang Qi and Xue Jin-Zhuang. 2006. Anatomy of the Late Devonian sphenopsid Rotafolia songziensis, with a discussion of stelar architecture of the Sphenophyllales. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 167(2): 373-383.
17. Wang De-Ming, Hao Shou-Gang, Tian Lin and Xue Jin-Zhuang. 2006. Further study of the Late Devonian sphenopsid Hamatophyton verticillatum from China. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 167(4): 885–896.
18. Wang De-Ming Hao Shou-Gang and Wang Qi. 2005. Rotafolia songziensis gen. et comb. nov., a sphenopsid from the Late Devonian of Hubei, China. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 148 (1): 21-37.
19. Wang De-Ming and Hao Shou-Gang. 2004. Bracteophyton variatum gen. et sp. nov., an Early Devonian plant from the Xujiachong Formation of Yunnan, China. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 165(2): 337-345.
20. Wang De-Ming, Hao Shou-Gang and Wang Qi. 2003a. Hsüa deflexa sp. nov. from the Xujiachong Formation (Lower Devonian) of eastern Yunnan, China. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 142(3): 255-271.
21. Wang De-Ming, Hao Shou-Gang and Wang Qi. 2003b. Tracheid ultrastructure of Hsüa deflexa from the Lower Devonian Xujiachong Formation of Yunnan, China. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 164 (3): 415-427.
22. Wang De-Ming and Hao Shou-Gang. 2002. Guangnania cuneata gen. et sp. nov. from the Lower Devonian of Yunnan Province, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 122(1-2): 13-27.
23. Wang De-Ming, Hao Shou-Gang and Liu Zhen-Feng. 2002. Researches on plants form the Lower Devonian Xujiachong Formation in the Qujing District, Eastern Yunnan. Acta Geologica Sinica, 76 (4): 393-407.
24. Wang De-Ming and Hao Shou-Gang. 2001. A new species of vascular plants from the Xujiachong Formation (Lower Devonian) of Yunnan Province, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 114(3-4): 157-174.
25. Wang De-Ming, Hao Shou-Gang. 1996. Report of Sawdonia in China-Sawdonia curstipa sp. nov.. Acta Botanica Sinica, 38(4): 318-322.

26. Guo Yun and Wang De-Ming. 2016. Studies on plant cuticles from the Lower–Middle Devonian of China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 227(2016): 42-51.
27. Zhang Ying-Ying, Xue Jin-Zhuang, Liu Le, Wang De-Ming. 2016. Periodicity of reproductive growth in lycopsids: An example from the Upper Devonian of Zhejiang Province, China. Palaeoworld 25(1): 12-20.
28. Meng Mei-Cen, Liu Le, Wang De-Ming, Yao Jian-Xin. 2016. Growth architecture and microsporangiate strobilus of Sublepidodendron grabaui (Lycopsida) from the Late Devonian of South China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 224(2016): 83-93.
29. Meng Mei-Cen, Wang De-Ming, Yao Jian-Xin. 2015. Vegetative characters, growth habit and microsporangiate strobilus of lycopsid Minostrobus chaohuensis. PLOS ONE 10(3): e0122167.
30. Liu Le, Wang De-Ming, Xue Jin-Zhuang and Meng Mei-Cen. 2015. An anatomically preserved lycopsid from the Upper Devonian of South China. Historical Biology, 27: 308-315.
31. Meng Mei-Cen, Wang De-Ming and Tian Tian. 2014. New insights on the megasporangiate strobilus of Sublepidodendron songziense from the Late Devonian of Hubei Province. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 53(2):180-190.
32. Xiong Cong-Hui, Wang De-Ming, Wang Qi, Benton MJ, Xue Jin-Zhuang, Meng Mei-Cen, Zhao Qi and Zhang Jing. 2013. Diversity dynamics of Silurian–Early Carboniferous land plants in South China. PLOS ONE 8(9): e75706.
33. Meng Mei-Cen, Wang De-Ming, Xue Jin-Zhuang and Zhu Xiao. 2013. New insights and evolutionary significance of the megasporangiate strobilus of Minostrobus chaohuensis (Lycopsida) from the Upper Devonian of South China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 190(2013): 20-40.
34. Liu Le, Wang De-Ming, Xue Jin-Zhuang, Meng Mei-Cen and Guo Yun. 2013. Reinvestigation of the lycopsid Minarodendron cathaysiense from the Middle Devonian of South China. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 268: 325-339.
35. Xiong Cong-Hui, Wang De-Ming, Wang Qi and Meng Mei-Cen. 2012. A new euphyllophyte Kunia venusta gen. et sp. nov. from the Middle Devonian of Yunnan, South China. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 50(6):540-549.
36. Guo Y and Wang De-Ming. 2011. Anatomical reinvestigation of Archaeopteris macilenta from the Upper Devonian (Frasnian) of South China. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 49(6):590-597.
37. Guo Yun and Wang De-Ming. 2009. Archaeopteris halliana from the Late Devonian (Famennian) of Anhui Province, China. Acta Geologica Sinica, 83(3):479-491.
38. Cui Li, Wang De-Ming. 2009. A study of Sublepidodendron in the Early Carboniferous of South China and its taxonomic implication. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis, 45(3): 451-460.

39. Xue Jin-Zhuang, Huang Pu, Wang De-Ming, Wang Qi and Hao Shou-Gang. 2016. Anatomy of the Middle Devonian cladoxylopsid Panxia gabata Y. Wang et Berry from Yunnan Province, southwestern China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 224(2016): 66-82.
40. Deng Zhen-Zhen, Huang Pu, Liu Le, Wang De-Ming and Xue Jin-Zhuang. 2016. New observations of Sphenophyllum pseudotenerrimum Sze (Sphenopsida) from the Late Devonian of South China.Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 55(1): 45-55.
41. Xue Jin-Zhuang, Wang Qi, Wang De-Ming, Wang Yi and Hao Shou-Gang. 2015. New observations of the early land plant Eocooksonia Doweld from the Pridoli (Upper Silurian) of Xinjiang, China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 101: 30-38.
42. Xue Jinzhuang, Huang Pu, Marcello Ruta, Michael J. Benton, Hao Shougang, Xiong Conghui, Wang Deming, Borja Cascales-Miñana, Wang Qi, Liu Le. 2015. Stepwise evolution of Paleozoic tracheophytes from South China: contrasting leaf disparity and taxic diversity. Earth-Science Reviews, 148: 77-93.
43. Hao Shou-Gang, Xue Jin-Zhuang, Zhu Xiao and Wang De-Ming. 2012. A new genus of Early Devonian plants with novel strobilar structures and vegetative appendages from the Posongchong Formation of Yunnan, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 171: 73-82.
44. Xue Jin-Zhuang, Hao Shou-Gang, Zhu Xiao and Wang De-Ming. 2012. A new basal euphyllophyte, Pauthecophyton gen. nov., from the Lower Devonian (Pragian) of Yunnan, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 183: 9-20.
45. Zhu Xiao, Xue Jin-Zhuang, Hao Shou-Gang, Wang De-Ming. 2011. A new species of Adoketophyton from the Lower Devonian (Pragian) Posongchong Formation of Yunnan, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 164: 238-246.
46. Hao Shou-Gang, Xue Jin-Zhuang, Guo Da-Li and Wang De-Ming. 2010. Earliest rooting system and root: shoot ratio from a new Zosterophyllum plant. New Phytologist, 185(1): 217-225.
47. Ma Xue-Ping, Liao Wei-Hua and Wang De-Ming. 2009. The Devonian System of China, with a discussion on sea-level change in South China. The Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 314: 241-262.
48. Hao Shou-Gang, Xue Jin-Zhuang, Liu Zhen-Feng and Wang De-Ming. 2007. Zosterophyllum Penhallow around the Silurian-Devonian boundary of Northeastern Yunnan, China. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 168(4): 477-489.
49. Hao Shou-Gang, Wang De-Ming, Wang Qi and Xue Jin-Zhuang. 2006. A new lycopsid, Zhenglia radiata gen. et sp. nov., from the Lower Devonian Posongchong Formation of sourtheastern Yunnan, China, and its evolutionary significance. Acta Geologica Sinica, 80(1): 11-19.
50. Xue Jin-Zhuang, Hao Shou-Gang, Wang De-Ming. 2006. A review of the Middle–Late Devonian lycopsids. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis, 808-816.
51. Xue Jin-Zhuang, Hao Shou-Gang, Wang De-Ming and Liu Zhen-Feng. 2005. A new lycopsid from the Upper Devonian of Hubei Province. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 166(3): 519-531.
52. Hao Shou-Gang, Wang De-Ming and Wang Qi. 2004. A new species of Estinnophyton from the Lower Devonian Posongchong Formation, Yunnan, China; its phylogenetic and palaeophytogeographical significance. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 146: 201-216.
53. Hao Shou-Gang, Wang De-Ming and Beck C.B. 2003. Observations on anatomy of Adoketophyton subverticillatum from the Posongchong Formation (Pragian, Lower Devonian) of Yunnan, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 127 (3-4): 175-186.
54. Hao Shou-Gang, Beck C.B. and Wang De-Ming. 2003. Structure of the earliest leaves: adaptations to high concentrations of atmospheric CO2. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 164(1): 71-75.
55. Wang Qi, Hao Shou-Gang, Wang De-Ming, Wang Yi and Denk T. 2003. A Late Devonian arborescent lycopsid Sublepidodendron songziense Chen emend. (Sublepidodendraceae Kräusel et Weyland 1949) from China, with a revision of the genus Sublepidodendron (Nathorst) Hirmer 1927. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 127 (3-4): 269-305.
56. Hao Shou-Gang. and Wang De-Ming. 2003. The Early Devonian Posongchong flora of Yunnan, China - a new window for research on evolution and diversity of early land vascular plants. Advance in Earth Sciences, 18(6): 877-883.
57. Wang Qi, Hao Shou-Gang, Wang De-Ming. 2003. A cladistic study on Sublepidodendron (Nathorst) Hirmer and its related genera. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis, 39(6): 856-870.
58. Wang Qi, Hao Shou-Gang, Wang De-Ming and Dilcher D.L. 2002. An anatomically preserved arborescent lycopsid Sublepidodendron songziense (Sublepidodendraceae) from the Late Devonian of Hubei, China. American Journal of Botany, 89(9): 1468-1477.
59. Hao Shou-Gang, Wang De-Ming, Wang Qi. 2002. The origin of land plants and the early evolution of land vascular plants. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis, 38(2): 286-293.
60. Hao Shou-Gang, Gensel P.G. and Wang De-Ming. 2001. Polythecophyton demissum, gen. et sp. nov., a new plant from the Lower Devonian (Pragian age) of Yunnan, China and its phytogeographic significance. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 116(1-2): 55-71.
61. Hao Shou-Gang and Wang De-Ming. 2000. Two species of Zosterophyllum Penhallow (Z. australianum Lang and Cookson, Z. ramosum sp. nov.) from the Lower Devonian (Pragian) of southeast Yunnan, China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 39(Sup.): 26-41.