Areas of Focus
- Rhizosphere Growth-Promoting Bacteria and Plant Epigenetics
Work Experience
- 2014-10~Present - Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology - Researcher
- 2014-06~2014-09 - Purdue University - Research Assistant
- 2011-01~2014-05 - Purdue University - Postdoctoral Researcher
- 2010-01~2010-12 - University of California, Riverside - Postdoctoral Researcher
- 2007-09~2009-12 - Texas Tech University - Postdoctoral Researcher
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2002-09--2007-08 Ph.D.: Texas Tech University
- 1998-09--2002-05 B.Sc.: Nanjing University
Publications
- A naturally occurring epiallele associates with leaf senescence and local climate adaptation in Arabidopsis accessions, 7th Author, 2018
- SAC3B, a central component of the mRNA export complex TREX-2, is required for prevention of epigenetic gene silencing in Arabidopsis., Corresponding Author, 2017
- Roles of Nuclear Pores and Nucleo-cytoplasmic Trafficking in Plant Stress Responses., Corresponding Author, 2017
- New Discoveries Generate New Questions about RNA-directed DNA methylation in Arabidopsis., Corresponding Author, 2017
- Efficient Generation of diRNAs Requires Components in the Posttranscriptional Gene Silencing Pathway, 10th Author, 2017
- The effects of bacterial volatile emissions on plant abiotic stress tolerance, Corresponding Author, 2015
- Specific but interdependent functions for Arabidopsis AGO4 and AGO6 in RNA-directed DNA methylation, 1st Author, 2015
- Regulatory link between DNA methylation and active demethylation in Arabidopsis, 2nd Author, 2015
- Emerging roles of RNA processing factors in regulating long non-coding RNAs, Corresponding Author, 2014
- Protocol: a beginner's guide to the analysis of RNA-directed DNA methylation in plants, Corresponding Author, 2014
- An Rrp6-like Protein Positively Regulates Non-coding RNA Levels and DNA Methylation in Arabidopsis, Corresponding Author, 2014
- Chemical probes in plant epigenetics studies, 1st Author, 2013
- Dynamic chemical crosstalk between plants and bacteria through airborne signals, 2nd Author, 2013
- Active DNA demethylation in plants and animals, 1st Author, 2012
- Sulfamethazine suppresses epigenetic silencing in Arabidopsis by impairing folate synthesis, 1st Author, 2012
- Seeing the forest for the trees: a wide perspective of RNA-directed DNA methylation, 1st Author, 2012
- RNA-directed DNA methylation, 1st Author, 2011
- Beneficial rhizobacteria induce plant growth: mapping signaling networks in Arabidopsis, 2nd Author, 2011
- Choline and Osmotic-Stress Tolerance Induced in Arabidopsis by the Soil Microbe Bacillus subtilis (GB03), 1st Author, 2010
- A soil bacteria regulates plant acquisition of iron via deficiency-inducible mechanisms, 1st Author, 2009
- Sustained growth promotion in Arabidopsis with long-term exposure to the beneficial soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis (GB03), 2nd Author, 2009
- Soil bacteria augment Arabidopsis photosynthesis by decreasing glucose sensing and abscisic acid levels in planta, 1st Author, 2008
- Soil bacteria confer plant salt tolerance by tissue-specific regulation of the sodium transporter HKT1, 1st Author, 2008
- Rhizobacterial volatile emissions regulate auxin homeostasis and cell expansion in Arabidopsis, 1st Author, 2007