Bio
2019.03-present Professor
School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, China
2016.07-2018.12 Postdoc
School of Life Sciences, Peking University, China
Visiting Scholar, Department of Biology, Southern University of Science and Technology
Supervisor: Professor Xing Wang Deng and Professor Liumin Fan
2011.09-2016.06 Ph.D.
School of Life Sciences, Peking University, China
Supervisor: Professor Xing Wang Deng
2007.09-2011.06 B.S.
School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, China
Awards and Fellowship:
2020 Excellent Speaker of the 2ndNational Conference of Plant Photobiology
2019 Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST
2018 Excellent Poster Award of the 1stNational Conference of Plant Photobiology
2017 China postdoctoral Science Foundation
2017-2018 Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship
2015 Suzhou Industrial Park Scholarship
2014 Individual Scholarship
2010 National Scholarship; The First Prize Scholarship of Han Yu
2010 Hui-Chun Chin and Tsung-Dao Lee Chinese Undergraduate Research Endowment
Honors:
2020 Excellent Communist Party Member in Lanzhou University
2020 Advanced Individual in Lanzhou University
2015 Merit Student of Peking University
Outstanding Volunteer of School of Life Sciences in Peking University
2014 Merit Student in Peking University
2011 Outstanding Graduate in Lanzhou University
2008, 2009, 2010 Pacemaker to Merit Student in Lanzhou University
2008, 2009, 2010 Excellent League Member in Lanzhou University
Funding
1. Molecular mechanism of BBX28 and BBX29 in brassinosteriod signaling. 2021.01-2023.12, NSFC, No. 32000188.
2. The Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST. 2020.01-2022.12, No. 2019QNRC001.
3. Molecular mechanism of BEE2 in plant photomorphogenesis. 2019/03-2020/12, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, lzujbky-2019-70, No. 561219035.
4. Molecular mechanism of COP1-mediated photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis. 2017/05-2018/12, China postdoctoral Science Foundation, No. 2017M610014
Publications
1. Zhu, W. #, Zhou, H. #,Lin, F., Zhao, X., Jiang, Y., Xu, D., and Deng, X.W. (2020). COLD-REGULATED GENE 27 integrates signals from light and the circadian clock to promote hypocotyl growth in Arabidopsis.The Plant Cell32, (10), 3155-3169. (#co-first author)
2. Song, Z. #, Yan, T. #, Liu, J., Bian, Y., Heng, Y.,Lin, F., Jiang, Y., Deng, X.W., and Xu, D. (2020). BBX28/BBX29-HY5-BBX30/31 form a feedback loop to fine-tune photomorphogenic development.Plant Journal104, (2), 377-390. (#co-first author)
3. Heng, Y#,Lin, F.#,Yan, T., Lan H., Zhou H., Zhao X., Jiang, Y. Xu, D., Deng, X.W. (2019) B-box containing protein BBX30 and BBX31, acting downstream of HY5, negatively regulate photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis.Plant Physiology180, 497-508.(#co-first author).
4.Lin, F.#, Jiang, Y.#, Li, J., Yan, T., Fan, L., Liang, J.S, Chen, Z.J., Xu, D., and Deng, X.W. (2018) B-BOX DOMAIN PROTEIN28 negatively regulates photomorphogenesis by repressing the activity of transcription factor HY5 and undergoes COP1-mediated degradation.The Plant Cell30, 2006-2019. (#co-first author).
5. Cui, Y., Hu, C., Zhu, Y., Cheng, K., Li, X., Wei Z., Xue L.,Lin, F.,Shi, H., Yi, J., Hou, S., He, K., Li, J., and Gou. X. (2018) CIK receptor kinases determine cell fate specification during early anther development in Arabidopsis.The Plant Cell30, 2383-2401.
6.Lin, F.#, Xu, D.#, Jiang, Y.#, Chen, H., Fan, L., Holm, M. and Deng, X.W. (2017) Phosphorylation and negative regulation of CONSTITUTIVELY PHOTOMORPHOGENIC 1 by PINOID in Arabidopsis.Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA114, 6617-6622. (#co-first author).
7. Xu, D., Jiang, Y., Li, J.,Lin, F., Holm, M., and Deng, X.W. (2016). BBX21, an Arabidopsis B-box protein, directly activates HY5 and is targeted by COP1 for 26S proteasome-mediated degradation.Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA113, 7655-7660.
8. Xu, D.#,Lin, F.#, Jiang, Y., Ling, J., Hettiarachchi, C., Tellgren-Roth, C., Holm, M., Wei, N., and Deng, X.W. (2015). Arabidopsis COP1 SUPPRESSOR 2 represses COP1 E3 ubiquitin ligase activity through their coiled-coil domains association.PLoS Genetics11, e1005747. (#co-first author).
9. Xu, D.,Lin, F., Jiang, Y., Huang, X., Li, J., Ling, J., Hettiarachchi, C., Tellgren-Roth, C., Holm, M., and Deng, X.W. (2014). The RING-Finger E3 ubiquitin ligase COP1 SUPPRESSOR1 negatively regulates COP1 abundance in maintaining COP1 homeostasis in dark-grown Arabidopsis seedlings.ThePlant Cell26, 1981-1991.
10. Wang, Y., Fan, X.,Lin, F., He, G., Terzaghi, W., Zhu, D., and Deng, X.W. (2014). Arabidopsis noncoding RNA mediates control of photomorphogenesis by red light.Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.USA111, 10359-10364.
11. Xu, D., Li, J., Gangappa, S.N., Hettiarachchi, C.,Lin, F., Andersson, M.X., Jiang, Y., Deng, X.W., and Holm, M. (2014). Convergence of Light and ABA signaling on theABI5promoter.PLoS Genetics10, e1004197.
