Areas of Focus
- Genetic and molecular mechanisms of maize under high-density planting conditions
- Gene expression regulation during C4 photosynthesis initiation
Work Experience
- 2003-2012 - Postdoctoral Researcher, Assistant Researcher at Illinois State University, State University of New York, Cornell University, and BTI
- 2012-2013 - Researcher at Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences
- 2014-present - Faculty at Shandong Agricultural University, College of Agriculture
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2003 - PhD in Botany, Shandong Normal University
- 2011 - Lawrence Bogorad Award for Molecular Biology from BTI
- 2013 - Selected for the National Overseas Key Talent Youth Project
- 2015 - Selected for Shandong Province 'Taishan Scholar Climbing Plan'
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
- Characterization of regulatory modules controlling leaf angle in maize, Wang X, Wang X, Sun S, Tu X, Lin K, Qin L, Wang X, Li G, Zhong S, Li P, 2022
- 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, Li G, Lu T*, Zhong S*, Li P*, 2022
- Reconstructing the maize leaf regulatory network using ChIP-seq data of 104 transcription factors, Tu X, Mejía-Guerra MK, Valdes Franco JA, Tzeng D, Chu PY, Shen W, Wei Y, Dai X, Li P*, Buckler ES, Zhong S*, 2020
- Non-homology-based prediction of gene functions in maize (Zea mays ssp. mays), Dai X, Xu Z, Liang Z, Tu X, Zhong S, Schnable JC, Li P, 2020
- 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
- Transcriptomic Analysis of Leaf Sheath Maturation in Maize, Dong L, Qin L, Dai X, Ding Z, Bi R, Liu P, Chen Y, Brutnell TP, Wang X, Li P, 2019
- Characterization of maize leaf pyruvate orthophosphate dikinase using high throughput sequencing, Zhang Y, Giuliani R, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Araujo WL, Wang B, Liu P, Sun Q, Cousins A, Edwards G, Fernie A, Brutnell TP, Li P, 2018
Awards
- 2011: Lawrence Bogorad Award for Molecular Biology from BTI
- 2013: Selected for the National Overseas Key Talent Youth Project
- 2015: Selected for Shandong Province 'Taishan Scholar Climbing Plan'
