个人简介
社会职务(Part-time)
2023年–至今,中国古生物学会理事;
2022年–至今,中国昆虫学会理事,古昆虫专业委员会副主任;
2018年–2022年,中国昆虫学会副秘书长。
兼任职务(Part-time)
进化与生态系主任(2023年–至今);生科院教代会主任(2019年–至今);生科院宏观第二支部书记(2020年–2022年);生科院部门工会主席(2014年–2019年)。
个人获奖
2023年,获第六届“中国古生物学会青年古生物学奖”称号;
2022年度教育部高校科学技术奖自然科学奖二等奖(排名第一);
2021年度北京市科学技术奖二等奖(排名第三);
2017年,周尧昆虫分类学奖励基金二等奖;
2013年,中国昆虫学会第六届青年科学技术奖;
2011年度北京市科学技术奖一等奖(排名第四);
研究领域
具体方向包括昆虫各种行为的早期演化过程、系统发育关系,昆虫与伴生环境之间的协同演化等
近期论文
查看导师新发文章
(温馨提示:请注意重名现象,建议点开原文通过作者单位确认)
Zhang Yanjie, Rasnitsyn Alexandr P., Zhang Weiwei, Song Fan, Shih Chungkun, Ren Dong, Wang Yongjie*, Li Hu*, and Gao Taiping*. 2024. Stem chewing lice on Cretaceous feathers preserved in amber. Current Biology, 34(4): 916–922. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.027
Yang Hongru, Engel Michael S., Shih Chungkun, Song Fan, Zhao Yisheng, Ren Dong, and Gao Taiping*. 2023. Independent wing reductions and losses among stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea), supported by new Cretaceous fossils in amber. BMC Biology, 21:210. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-023-01720-0
Yang Hongru, Engel Michael S., Zhang Weiwei, Ren Dong, and Gao Taiping*. 2022. Mesozoic insect fossils reveal the early evolution of twig mimicry. Science Bulletin, 67(16): 1641–1643. doi: 10.1016/j.scib.2022.07.007
Gao Taiping, Shih Chungkun, and Ren Dong*. 2021. Behaviors and interactions of insects in Mid-Mesozoic ecosystems of Northeastern China. Annual Review of Entomology, 66: 337–354. doi: 10.1146/annurev-ento-072720-095043
Yang Hongru, Shi Chaofan, Engel Michael S., Zhao Zhipeng, Ren Dong*, and Gao Taiping*. 2021. Early specializations for mimicry and defense in a Jurassic stick insect. National Science Review, 8(1): nwaa56, doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwaa056
Zhang Yanjie, Shih Peter J.M., Wang Junyou, McNamara Maria E., Shih Chungkun, Ren Dong*, and Gao Taiping*. 2021. Jurassic scorpionflies (Mecoptera) with swollen first metatarsal segments suggesting sexual dimorphism. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 21: 47. doi: 10.1186/s12862-021-01771-3
Wu Qiong, Yang Hongru, Shih Chungkun, Ren Dong, Zhao Yunyun*, and Gao Taiping*. 2021. Vespids from the mid-Cretaceous with club-shaped antennae provide new evidence about the intrafamiliar relationships of Vespidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 193: 217–229. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa127
Cao Huijia, Boudinot Brendon, Shih Chungkun, Ren Dong*, and Gao Taiping*. 2020. Cretaceous ants shed new light on the origins of worker polymorphism. Science China Life Sciences, 63(7): 1085–1088. doi: 10.1007/s11427-019-1617-4
Zhao Zhipeng, Yin Xiangchu, Shih Chungkun, Gao Taiping*, and Ren Dong*. 2020. Termite colonies from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar demonstrate their early eusocial lifestyle in damp wood. National Science Review, 7(2): 381–390. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwz141 (Recommended by F1000)
Gao Taiping*, Yin Xiangchu, Shih Chungkun, Rasnitsyn Alexandr P., Xu Xing, Chen Sha, Wang Chen, and Ren Dong*. 2019. New insects feeding on dinosaur feathers in mid-Cretaceous amber. Nature Communications, 10: 5424. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-13516-4
Yang Hongru, Yin Xiangchu, Lin Xiaodan, Wang Chen, Shih Chungkun, Zhang Weiwei, Ren Dong*, and Gao Taiping*. 2019. Cretaceous winged stick insects clarify the early evolution of Phasmatodea. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1909): 20191085, 1–10. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1085 (Cover Story)
Chen Sha, Deng Shiwo, Shih Chungkun, Zhang Weiwei, Zhang Peng, Ren Dong, Zhu Yining*, and Gao Taiping*. 2019. The earliest Timematids in Burmese Amber reveal diverse tarsal pads of stick insects in the mid-Cretaceous. Insect Science, 26: 945–957. doi: 10.1111/1744-7917.12601
Chen Sha, Yin Xiangchu, Lin Xiaodan, Shih Chungkun, Zhang Runzhi, Gao Taiping*, and Ren Dong*. 2018. Stick insect in Burmese amber reveals an early evolution of lateral lamellae in the Mesozoic. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1877): 20180425, 1–7. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0425 (Cover Story) (Selected as a Research Highlight by Nature entitled: Early stick insect was a master of disguise; doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-04971-y)
Gao Taiping*, Shih Chungkun, Labandeira Conrad C., Santiago-Blay Jorge A., Yao Yunzhi, and Ren Dong. 2016. Convergent evolution of ramified antennae in insect lineages from the Early Cretaceous of Northeastern China. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1839): 20161448, 1–7. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2016.1448
Gao Taiping, Shih Chungkun, Engel Michael S., and Ren Dong. 2016. A new xyelotomid (Hymenoptera) from the Middle Jurassic of China displaying enigmatic venational asymmetry. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 16(155), doi: 10.1186/s12862-016-0730-0.
Gao Taiping*, Shih Chungkun, Rasnitsyn Alexandr P., Xu Xing, Wang Shuo, and Ren Dong. 2014. The first flea with fully distended abdomen from the Early Cretaceous of China. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14(168), doi: 10.1186/s12862-014-0168-1. (Highly accessed)
Gao Taiping, Shih Chungkun, Rasnitsyn Alexandr P., Xu Xing, Wang Shuo, and Ren Dong. 2013. New transitional fleas from China highlighting diversity of Early Cretaceous ectoparasitic insects. Current Biology, 23(13): 1261-1266. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.05.040
Gao Taiping, Shih Chungkun, Xu Xing, Wang Shuo, and Ren Dong. 2012. Mid-Mesozoic flea-like Ectoparasites of Feathered or Haired Vertebrates. Current Biology, 22(8): 732-735. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.03.012