Shang Lab focused on wild and cultivated rice germplasm collection and innovation, as well as elite gene mining and molecular design breeding in rice. They assembled 251 high-quality rice genomes to build the largest population-scale, genome-annotated super pangenome, which was the most systematic in Oryza genera by now.

The group includes 1 PI, 3 postdoctoral fellows, 3 Ph.D. students, 8 MSc. students, and 1 management and support staff.