宋卫宁，男，1958年9月生，教授，博士生导师，国际小麦基因组测序磋商组织协调委员会成员，中国作物学会小麦基因组及分子育种分会委员，为Trends in Plant Science, Molecular Ecology, BMC Genomics, Plant Systematics and Evolution等杂志审稿人。1982年在湖南农学院（现湖南农业大学）农学学士学位，同年出国留学，于1987年在澳大利亚阿德莱德大学获得硕士学位，1994年获得阿德莱德大学博士学位，1994年-1997年任澳大利亚昆士兰农业生物技术中心及南十字大学植物遗传资源保存中心分子生物学家，1997年－2002年任澳大利亚昆士兰州政府莱丝里研究中心分子生物学实验室负责人，2002年-2006年任以色列海法大学进化研究所高级研究员。2006年3月全职回国工作。长期从事麦类分子生物学和基因组学理论与应用研究工作，在野生麦类优异抗逆种质资源收集、鉴定与发掘利用、植物与微生物逆境基因组学与逆境信号途径、作物起源、驯化与群体遗传学等方面，先后主持了国家自然科学基金面上项目、国际组织间合作项目、863项目子课题、973项目子课题、农业部948项目、教育部科学技术重点培育项目等项目10余项。先后在PNAS, Plant Biotech J, BMC Genomics, Frontiers in Plant Science, American Journal of Botany等期刊发表SCI论文30余篇, 获得了2个国际基因专利，单篇论文最高引用次数达280次（Weining and Langridge, 1991）。

　　近年来发表论文及著作情况：

　　In books:

　　1. Biradar S, Nie X, Feng K, Weining S (2013) Preparation of High Molecular weight gDNA and Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) libraries. In “Cereal Genomics-Methods and Protocols”Methods in Molecular Biology (Springer series) Ed R J. Henry and A Furtado   Springer Science, USA 1099:41-63.

　　2. Biradar S, Den P and Weining S (2013) Plant WRKY gene family and its response to abiotic stress. In Molecular Approaches for Plant Abiotic Stress. Ed R.K.Gaur and Pradeep Sharma C Taylor & Francis CRC Press.

　　3. Liu, D., Du X. and Weining S (2011) Acremonium. In: MOLECULAR DETECTION OF HUMAN FUNGAL PATHOGENS Ed. Liu, D. Taylor & Francis CRC Press

　　4. Weining S and Liu D. (2009) Isolation of Nucleic Acids from Plants. In: Handbook of Nucleic Acid Purification. Ed. Liu, D. Taylor & Francis CRC Press.

　　

　　In refereed journals

　　1. Pingchuan Deng, Meng Wang, Kewei Feng, Licao Cui, Wei Tong, Weining Song*, Xiaojun Nie*. Genome-wide characterization of microsatellites in Triticeae species: abundance, distribution and evolution. Sci. Rep. 2016, 6, 32224.

　　2. Meng Wang, Hong Yue, Kewei Feng, Pingchuan Deng, Weining Song*, Xiaojun Nie*. Genome-Wide Identification, Phylogeny and Expressional Profiles of Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase Kinase Kinase (MAPKKK) Gene Family in Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). BMC Genomics, 2016, 17: 668.

　　3. Licao Cui, Kewei Feng, Mengxing Wang, Meng Wang, Pingchuan Deng, Weining Song*, Xiaojun Nie*. Genome-Wide Identification, Phylogeny and Expression Analysis of AP2/ERF Transcription Factors Family in Brachypodium distachyon. BMC Genomics, 2016, 17(1):636

　　4. Hong Yue, Meng Wang, Siyan Liu, Xianghong Du, Weining Song*, Xiaojun Nie*. Transcriptome-wide identification and expression profiles of the WRKY transcription factor family in Broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.). BMC Genomcis, 2016, 17: 343.

　　5. Hong Yue, Le Wang, Hui Liu, Wenjie Yue, Xianghong Du, Weining Song*, Xiaojun Nie*. De novo Assembly and Characterization of the Transcriptome of Broomcorn Millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) for Gene Discovery and Marker Development. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016, 7, 571.

　　6. Pingchuan Deng, Xiaoxin Bian, Hong Yue, Kewei Feng, Xianghong Du, Weining Song*, Xiaojun Nie*. Characterization of microRNAs and their targets in wild barley (Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum) using deep sequencing. Genome, 2016, 5 , 59.

　　7. Mengxing Wang, Licao Cui, Kewei Feng, Pingchuan Deng, Xianghong Du, Fanghao Wan, Weining Song*, Xiaojun Nie*. Comparative Analysis of Asteraceae Chloroplast Genomes: Structural Organization, RNA Editing and Evolution. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, 2015, 5, 33.

　　8. Pingchuan Deng, Le Wang, Licao Cui, Keiwei Feng, Fuyan Liu, Xianghong Du, Wei Tong, Xiaojun Nie, Wanquan Ji, Weining Song*. Global Identification of MicroRNAs and Their Targets in Barley under Salinity Stress. PLoS One. 2015, 10(9): e0137990.

　　9. Yunze Lu, Le Wang, Hong Yue, Mengxing Wang, Pingchuan Deng, David Edwards,  Weining Song*. Comparative analysis of Stowaway–like MITEs in wheat group 7 chromosomes: abundance, composition and evolution. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 2014, 52(6): 743–749.

　　10. Xiaojun Nie, Peixun Liu, Pingchuan Deng, Yunze Lu, Siddanagouda S. Biradar, Xiangong Du, Aiping Wu, Fanghao Wan, Weining Song*. Large scale identification of microsatellites for a major invasive weed, Ageratina adenophora using the Illumina sequencing technology. Weed research, 2014, 54, 134-139.

　　11. Xiaojun Nie, Pingchuan Deng, Kewei Feng, Peixun Liu, Xianghong Du, Frank M You, Weining Song*. Comparative analysis of codon usage patterns in chloroplast genomes of the Asteraceae family. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, 2014, 32, 828-840.

　　12. Pingchuan Deng, Xiaojun Nie, Le Wang, Licao Cui, Peixun Liu, Wei Tong, Siddanagouda S. Biradar, David Edwards, Paul Berkman, Hana Šimková, Jaroslav Doležel, Mincheng Luo, Frank You, Jacqueline Batley, Delphine Fleury, Rudi Appels,  Weining Song*. Computational identification and comparative analysis of wheat miRNAs in group 7 chromosomes. Plant molecular biology Reporter, 2014, 32, 487–500.

　　13. Luo, M……. Weining Song et al. (2013) A 4-gigabase physical map unlocks the structure and evolution of the complex genome of Aegilops tauschii, the wheat D-genome progenitor. Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences of the United States of America 110:7940-7945

　　14. Berkman, P, Visendi P, Lee H, Stiller J, Manoli S, Lorenc M, Lai K, Batley J, Fleury D, SimkováH, KubalákováM, Weining Song, Doležel J, Edwards D (2013) Dispersion and domestication shaped the genome of bread wheat. Plant Biotechnol Journal 11:564-571.

　　15. Xiaojun Nie, Shuzuo Lv, Yingxin Zhang, Xiangong Du, Le Wang, Siddanagouda S. Biradar, Xiufang Tan, Fanghao Wan, Weining Song*. Complete chloroplast genome of a major invasive species, Crofton weed (Ageratina adenophora L.). PLoS ONE, 2012, 5, e36869.

　　16. Xiaojun Nie, Bianli Li, Le Wang, Peixun Liu, Siddanagouda S. Biradar, Tao Li, Jaroslav Dolezel, David Edwards, Mingcheng Luo, Weining Song*. Development of chromosome-arm-specific microsatellite markers in Triticum aestivum (Poaceae) using NGS technology. American Journal of Botany, 2012, 99, e369–e371.

　　17. Shuzuo Lv, Xiaojun Nie, Le Wang, Siddanagouda S. Biradar, Xiaoou Jia, Weining Song*. Identification and characterization of microRNAs from barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) by Solexa sequencing. International Journal of Molecular Science, 2012, 13, 2973–2984.

　　18. Yuerong Zhang, Xiaojun Nie, Xiaoou Jia, Cunzhen Zhao, Siddanagouda S. Biradar B, Le Wang, Xianghong Du, Weining Song*. Analysis of codon usage patterns of the chloroplast genomes in the Poaceae family. Australia Journal of Botany, 2012, 60, 461–470.