Areas of Focus
- Plant Functional Genomics
- Epigenetic Regulation (Chromatin Accessibility and Three-dimensional Structure, Histone Post-translational Modifications, DNA Methylation)
- Genetic Regulation (Transcription Factor Regulatory Network Construction, Co-binding, Binding Footprints)
Work Experience
- 2021.09 - Present - Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tenured Associate Professor, Group Leader, Doctoral Supervisor
- 2019.11-2021.08 - The Chinese University of Hong Kong / South China Botanical Garden, CAS, Postdoctoral Researcher
- 2018.05-2019.07 - Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University, Visiting Scholar
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2015.11-2019.10 PhD: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Visiting Scholar at Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University
Publications
- Limited conservation in cross-species comparison of GLK transcription factor binding suggested wide-spread cistrome divergence, Tu, X., Ren, S., Shen, W., Li, J., Li, Y., Li, C., Li, Y., Zong, Z., Xie, W., Grierson, D., Fei, Z., Giovannoni, J., Li, P., Zhong, S., 2022
- Reconstructing the maize leaf regulatory network using ChIP-seq data of 104 transcription factors, Tu, X., Mejía-Guerra, M.K., Valdes Franco, J.A., Tzeng, D., Chu, P., Shen, W., Wei, Y., Dai, X., Li, P., Buckler, E.S., Zhong, S., 2020
- A combinatorial indexing strategy for low-cost epigenomic profiling of plant single cells, Tu, X., Marand, A.P., Schmitz, R.J., Zhong, S., 2022
- Histone H2A monoubiquitination marks are targeted to specific sites by cohesin subunits in Arabidopsis, Zhang, Y., Ma, M., Liu, M., Sun, A., Zheng, X., Liu, K., Yin, C., Li, C., Jiang, C., Tu, X., Fang, Y., 2023
- 3D chromatin architecture of large plant genomes determined by local A/B compartments, Dong, P., Tu, X., Chu, P., Lü, P., Zhu, N., Grierson, D., Du, B., Li, P., Zhong, S., 2017
- Tissue-specific Hi-C analyses of rice, foxtail millet and maize suggest non-canonical function of plant chromatin domains, Dong, P., Tu, X., Li, H., Zhang, J., Grierson, D., Li, P., Zhong, S., 2020
- Chromatin and regulatory differentiation between bundle sheath and mesophyll cells in maize, Dai, X., Tu, X., Du, B., Dong, P., Sun, S., Wang, X., Sun, J., Gang, L., Lu, T., Zhong, S., Li, P., 2022
Awards
- 2024.01-2027.12 National Natural Science Foundation of China (32370247)
- 2023 Selected for Shanghai Jiao Tong University '2030 Plan' Class C Project
- 2022 Selected for Shanghai Overseas High-Level Talent Introduction Plan
- 2022.01-2024.12 National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Project (32100438)
- 2021.09-2024.12 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Double First-Class Construction Project
- 2021 Selected for Guangdong Province 'Pearl River Talent Plan' (Postdoctoral Funding Project)
- 2021.07-2021.08 China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Special Grant (Station Middle)
- 2020.07-2021.08 China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Surface Grant
