报告题目: RNA silencing in plants

报告人：Bin Yu（School of Biological Science and Center for Plant Science Innovation，University of Nebraska, Lincoln）

报告时间：2013年4月3日（星期三）上午11:00

报告地点：行政楼2号会议室

报告人介绍：

Research Interests：RNA Silencing & Epigenetics

Education and Research Experience：

08/2008-Present Assistant Professor, University of Lincoln, NE

09/2005-08/2008 Postdoctoral researcher, Advisor: Dr. Xuemei Chen, University of  California, Riverside

03/2004-09/2005 Postdoctoral researcher, Advisor: Dr. Xuemei Chen, The Waksman Institute, NJ

08/1999-01/2004 Ph.D, Advisor, Dr. Christoph Benning, Michigan State University, MI

08/1996-07/1999 M.S, Advisor, Prof. Shirong Jia, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, China

09/1990-07/1994 B.A. ShangDong Agricultural University, China

Selected Publication：

Yu B, Liu B, Zheng B, Ji Li, Agarwal M, Chevalie D, Lagrange T, Walker JC, Chen X (2008) The FHA domain proteins DAWDLE in Arabidopsis and SNIP1 in humans act in small RNA biogenesis Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 105:10073-10078

Yu B, Chapman EG, Yang Z, Carrington JC, Chen X (2006) Transgenically expressed viral RNA silencing suppressors interfere with microRNA methylation in Arabidopsis. FEBS Lett 580:3117-20

Li J, Yang Z, Yu B, Liu J, and Chen X (2005) Methylation protects miRNAs and siRNAs from a 3’end uridylation activity in Arabidopsis. Current Biology 15:1501-1507. --- Featured in “ Editors$$#$$ Choice: Highlights of the recent literature”. Science 309, 1651.

Yu B*, Yang ZY*, Li JJ, Minakhina S, Yang MC, Padgett RW, Steward R, Chen X (2005) Methylation as a crucial step in plant microRNA biogenesis. Science. 307:932-5 (*: equal contribution)

Yu B and Benning C. (2003) Anionic lipids are required for chloroplast structure and function in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 36:762-70

Yu B, Xu C, Benning C. (2002) Arabidopsis disrupted in SQD2 encoding sulfolipid synthase is impaired in phosphate-limited growth. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 99:5732-7.

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