1987-09 to 1990-06 M.Sc.: University of California, Riverside
1984-09 to 1987-06 B.Sc.: Beijing Agricultural University
2010-09 to Present - Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology - Director
2010-09 to 2016-02 - Purdue University - Distinguished Professor
2009-07 to 2011-07 - KAUST University, Center for Plant Stress Genomics - Director
2007-09 to 2010-06 - University of California, Riverside, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences - Chair Professor
2004-09 to 2006-06 - University of California, Riverside, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences - Distinguished Professor, Institute Director
2000-09 to 2003-06 - University of Arizona, Department of Plant Sciences - Professor
1999-09 to 2000-06 - University of Arizona, Department of Plant Sciences - Associate Professor
1996-09 to 1998-06 - University of Arizona, Department of Plant Sciences - Assistant Professor
1995-09 to 1996-06 - Auburn University, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology - Assistant Professor
1993-09 to 1994-06 - Rockefeller University - Postdoctoral Researcher
Research
Plant Stress Biology
De novo assembly and analysis of the transcriptome of Ocimum americanum var. pilosum under cold stress., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2016
Type One Protein Phosphatase 1 and Its Regulatory Protein Inhibitor 2 Negatively Regulate ABA Signaling., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2016
ABA receptor PYL9 promotes drought resistance and leaf senescence., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2016
Dicer-independent RNA-directed DNA methylation in Arabidopsis., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2016
Assessing Kinase Activity in Plants with In-Gel Kinase Assays., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2016
RDM4 modulates cold stress resistance in Arabidopsis partially through the CBF-mediated pathway., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2016
Epigenetic Modifications and Plant Hormone Action., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2016
TALEN-mediated targeted mutagenesis produces a large variety of heritable mutations in rice., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2016
A DNA ligase required for active DNA demethylation and genomic imprinting in Arabidopsis., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2016
Development of germ-line-specific CRISPR-Cas9 systems to improve the production of heritable gene modifications in Arabidopsis., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
MET18 Connects the Cytosolic Iron-Sulfur Cluster Assembly Pathway to Active DNA Demethylation in Arabidopsis., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
A multiplex CRISPR/Cas9 platform for fast and efficient editing of multiple genes in Arabidopsis., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
Two domain-disrupted hda6 alleles have opposite epigenetic effects on transgenes and some endogenous targets., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
Cold responsive gene transcription becomes more complex., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
An Arabidopsis PWI and RRM motif-containing protein is critical for pre-mRNA splicing and ABA responses., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
Nitric oxide suppresses the inhibitory effect of abscisic acid on seed germination by S-nitrosylation of SnRK2 proteins., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
Involvement of Multiple Gene-Silencing Pathways in a Paramutation-like Phenomenon in Arabidopsis., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
A DNA ligase required for active DNA demethylation and genomic imprinting in Arabidopsis., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
The resurrection genome of Boea hygrometrica: A blueprint for survival of dehydration., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
The BASL Polarity Protein Controls a MAPK Signaling Feedback Loop in Asymmetric Cell Division., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
Stomatal guard cells co-opted an ancient ABA-dependent desiccation survival system to regulate stomatal closure., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
Regulatory link between DNA methylation and active demethylation in Arabidopsis., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
The methyl-CpG-binding protein MBD7 facilitates active DNA demethylation to limit DNA hyper-methylation and transcriptional gene silencing., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
Increasing freezing tolerance: kinase regulation of ICE1., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
HOS1 regulates Argonaute1 by promoting transcription of the microRNA gene MIR168b in Arabidopsis., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
Methyl-CpG-binding domain protein MBD7 is required for active DNA demethylation in Arabidopsis., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
An AP endonuclease functions in active DNA dimethylation and gene imprinting in arabidopsis., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
Nitric oxide negatively regulates abscisic acid signaling in guard cells by S-nitrosylation of OST1., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
Specific but interdependent functions for Arabidopsis AGO4 and AGO6 in RNA-directed DNA methylation., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
Structural mechanisms of RNA recognition: sequence-specific and non-specific RNA-binding proteins and the Cas9-RNA-DNA complex., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
The Arabidopsis Vacuolar Sorting Receptor1 is required for osmotic stress-induced abscisic acid biosynthesis., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2015
Swaminathan K, Melcher K. 2014. H2O2 inhibits ABA-signaling protein phosphatase HAB1., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2014
SUVR2 is involved in transcriptional gene silencing by associating with SNF2-related chromatin-remodeling proteins in Arabidopsis., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2014
CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE8 differentially regulates plant immunity to fungal pathogens through kinase-dependent and -independent functions in Arabidopsis., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2014
Measuring spatial and temporal Ca2+ signals in Arabidopsis plants., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2014
Emerging roles of RNA processing factors in regulating long non-coding RNAs., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2014
Identification of ERK1 Direct Substrates using Stable Isotope Labeled Kinase Assay-Linked Phosphoproteomics., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2014
Regulation of Active DNA Demethylation by an α-Crystallin Domain Protein in Arabidopsis., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2014
Protocol: a beginner's guide to the analysis of RNA-directed DNA methylation in plants., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2014
Overproduction of stomatal lineage cells in Arabidopsis mutants defective in active DNA demethylation., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2014
The ABA receptor PYL8 promotes lateral root growth by enhancing MYB77-dependent transcription of auxin-responsive genes., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2014
Constitutive production of nitric oxide leads to enhanced drought stress resistance and extensive transcriptional reprogramming in Arabidopsis., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2014
Timmis JN. 2014. Transcription of nuclear organellar DNA in a model plant system., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2014
The CRISPR/Cas9 system produces specific and homozygous targeted gene editing in rice in one generation., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2014
RNA splicing factors and RNA-directed DNA methylation., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2014
An Rrp6-like protein positively regulates noncoding RNA levels and DNA methylation in Arabidopsis., Jian-Kang Zhu, 2014
