Areas of Focus
- Rice gene editing breeding
- Flower gene editing breeding
- Development of gene editing technologies
Work Experience
- 2019-Present - Shanghai Normal University - Professor
- 2017-2019 - Shanghai Institute of Plant Stress Biology, CAS - Young Research Group Leader
- 2015-2017 - Purdue University - Postdoctoral Researcher
- 2012-2015 - Shanghai Institute of Plant Stress Biology, CAS - Postdoctoral Researcher
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2006-2012 PhD: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- 2003-2006 Master's: Ningxia University
- 1999-2003 Bachelor's: Ludong University
Publications
- Efficient generation of homozygous substitutions in rice in one generation utilizing an rABE8e base editor, Wei C, Wang C, Jia M, Guo H, Luo P, Wang M, Zhu JK, Zhang H, 2021
- Engineering herbicide-resistant oilseed rape by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated cytosine base-editing, Wu J, Chen C, Xian G, Liu D, Lin L, Yin S, Sun Q, Fang Y, Zhang H, Wang Y, 2020
- Disruption of MIR396e and MIR396f improves rice yield under nitrogen-deficient conditions, Zhang JS, Zhou ZY, Bai JJ, Tao XP, Wang L, Zhang H, Zhu JK, 2020
- Generation of new glutinous rice by CRISPR/Cas9-targeted mutagenesis of the Waxy gene in elite rice varieties, Zhang J, Zhang H, Botella JR, Zhu JK, 2018
- Genome Editing--Principles and Applications for Functional Genomics Research and Crop Improvement, Zhang H, Zhang J, Botella JR, Zhu JK, 2017
- Short tandem target mimic rice lines uncover novel functions of miRNAs in regulating important agronomic traits, Zhang H, Zhang J, Yan J, Gou F, Mao Y, Tang G, Botella JR, Zhu JK, 2017
- TALEN‐mediated targeted mutagenesis produces a large variety of heritable mutations in rice, Zhang H, Gou F, Zhang J, Liu W, Li Q, Mao Y, Botella JR, Zhu JK, 2016
- The CRISPR/Cas9 system produces specific and homozygous targeted gene editing in rice in one generation, Zhang H, Zhang J, Wei P, Zhang B, Gou F, Feng Z, Mao Y, Yang L, Zhang H, Xu N, Zhu JK, 2014
- Mutation in CSA creates a new photoperiod-sensitive genic male sterile line applicable for hybrid rice seed production, Zhang H, Xu C, He Y, Zong J, Yang X, Si H, Sun Z, Hu J, Liang W, Zhang D, 2013
- Carbon Starved Anther (CSA) Encoding a MYB Domain Protein Regulates Sugar Partitioning Required for Rice Pollen Development, Zhang H, Liang WQ, Yang XJ, Luo X, Jiang N, Ma H, Zhang DB, 2010
Awards
- 2010: Excellent PhD Thesis Nurture Fund of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- 2010: National Excellent Scholarship for PhD
- 2011: Meiji Life Science Award
- 2014: Shanghai Excellent PhD Thesis
- 2014: Sanofi-CAS Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences Postdoctoral Excellence Award
- 2018: CAS-Monsanto Young Talent Project Funding
- 2021: Wang Le San Teaching Award
