2010 - Bachelor's Degree: China Agricultural University
2015 - Ph.D.: University of California, Riverside
Achievement: Published in Science, Nature Plants, Nature Communications, etc., with over 3700 citations and 2 US patents
2015-2023 - Postdoctoral Research: University of California, Riverside and University of California, Los Angeles
2023-Present - Group Leader: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research
Epigenetic signal regulation in plant, insect, and pathogen interactions Development of epigenome editing tools for gene expression regulation
Targeted gene regulation through epigenome editing in plants, Yuejing Cheng*, Yu Zhou*, Ming Wang#, 2024
A gene silencing screen uncovers diverse tools for targeted gene repression in Arabidopsis, Ming Wang*, Zhenhui Zhong*, Javier Gallego-Bartolomé, Zheng Li, Suhua Feng, Hsuan Yu Kuo, Ryan L Kan, Hoiyan Lam, John Curtis Richey, Linli Tang, Jessica Zhou, Mukun Liu, Yasaman Jami-Alahmadi, James Wohlschlegel, Steven E Jacobsen, 2023
Arabidopsis TRB proteins function in H3K4me3 demethylation by recruiting JMJ14, Ming Wang*, Zhenhui Zhong*, Javier Gallego-Bartolome, Suhua Feng, Yuan-Hsin Shih, Mukun Liu, Jessica Zhou, John Curtis Richey, Charmaine Ng, Yasaman Jami-Alahmadi, James Wohlschlegel, Keqiang Wu, Steven E Jacobsen, 2023
Fungal small RNAs suppress plant immunity by hijacking host RNA interference pathways, Arne Weiberg*, Ming Wang*, Feng-Mao Lin, Hongwei Zhao, Zhihong Zhang, Isgouhi Kaloshian, Hsien-Da Huang, Hailing Jin, 2013
Bidirectional cross-kingdom RNAi and fungal uptake of external RNAs confer plant protection, Ming Wang, Arne Weiberg, Feng-Mao Lin, Bart P. H. J. Thomma, Hsien-Da Huang, Hailing Jin, 2016
The MOM1 complex recruits the RdDM machinery via MORC6 to establish de novo DNA methylation, Zheng Li*, Ming Wang*, Zhenhui Zhong*, Javier Gallego-Bartolomé, Suhua Feng, Yasaman Jami-Alahmadi, Xinyi Wang, James Wohlschlegel, Sylvain Bischof, Jeffrey A. Long, Steven E. Jacobsen, 2023
Histone chaperone ASF1 mediates H3. 3-H4 deposition in Arabidopsis, Zhenhui Zhong*, Yafei Wang*, Ming Wang*, Fan Yang, Quentin Angelo Thomas, Yan Xue, Yaxin Zhang, Wanlu Liu, Yasaman Jami-Alahmadi, Linhao Xu, Suhua Feng, Sebastian Marquardt, James A Wohlschlegel, Israel Ausin, Steven E Jacobsen, 2022
Spray-Induced Gene Silencing: a Powerful Innovative Strategy for Crop Protection, Ming Wang, Hailing Jin, 2017
Botrytis small RNA Bc-siR37 suppresses plant defense genes by cross-kingdom RNAi, Ming Wang*, Arne Weiberg*, Exequiel Dellota Jr, Daniel Yamane, Hailing Jin, 2017
Cross-kingdom RNA trafficking and environmental RNAi for powerful innovative pre- and post-harvest plant protection, Ming Wang, Nicholas Thomas and Hailing Jin, 2017
Pathogen small RNAs: a new class of effectors for pathogen attacks, Ming Wang*, Arne Weiberg*, Hailing Jin, 2015
CRISPR-CAS mediated transcriptional control and epi-mutagenesis, Gardiner, Jason*, Basudev Ghoshal*, Ming Wang*, and Steven E. Jacobsen, 2022
Plants send small RNAs in extracellular vesicles to fungal pathogen to silence virulence genes, Cai, Qiang, Lulu Qiao, Ming Wang, Baoye He, Feng-Mao Lin, Jared Palmquist, Sienna-Da Huang, and Hailing Jin, 2018
MBD2 couples DNA methylation to transposable element silencing during male gametogenesis, Wang, Shuya, Ming Wang, Lucia Ichino, Brandon A. Boone, Zhenhui Zhong, Ranjith K. Papareddy, Evan K. Lin, Jaewon Yun, Suhua Feng, and Steven E. Jacobsen, 2024
MORC proteins regulate transcription factor binding by mediating chromatin compaction in active chromatin regions, Zhenhui Zhong, Yan Xue, C Jake Harris, Ming Wang, Zheng Li, Yunqing Ke, Mukun Liu, Jessica Zhou, Yasaman Jami-Alahmadi, Suhua Feng, James A Wohlschlegel, Steven E Jacobsen, 2023
Ectopic targeting of CG DNA methylation in Arabidopsis with the bacterial SssI methyltransferase, Liu, Wanlu, Javier Gallego-Bartolomé, Yuxing Zhou, Zhenhui Zhong, Ming Wang, Somsakul Pop Wongpalee, Jason Gardiner, Suhua Feng, Peggy Hsuanyu Kuo, and Steven E. Jacobsen, 2021
Arabidopsis MORC proteins function in the efficient establishment of RNA directed DNA methylation, Xue, Yan, Zhenhui Zhong, C. Jake Harris, Javier Gallego-Bartolomé, Ming Wang, Colette Picard, Xueshi Cao et al., 2021
Small RNAs: A New Paradigm in Plant-Microbe Interactions, Weiberg, Arne, Ming Wang, Marschal Bellinger, and Hailing Jin, 2014
Efficient and accurate determination of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns in Arabidopsis thaliana with enzymatic methyl sequencing, Feng, Suhua, Zhenhui Zhong, Ming Wang, and Steven E. Jacobsen, 2020
Arabidopsis TAF15b localizes to RNA processing bodies and contributes to snc1-mediated autoimmunity, Dong, Oliver X., Louis-Valentin Meteignier, Melodie B. Plourde, Bulbul Md Ahmed, Ming Wang, Cassandra Jensen, Hainling Jin, Peter Moffett, Xin Li, and Hugo Germain, 2016
Synthesizing Fluorescently Labeled dsRNAs and sRNAs to Visualize Fungal RNA Uptake, Hamby, Rachael, Ming Wang, Lulu Qiao, and Hailing Jin, 2020
Area of Focus
Gene Engineering | Crispr | Stem Cells | T Cells | X Chromosome | Embryonic Development | Genome Editing | Biotechnology | Molecular Biology | Regenerative Medicine
