Biography
I studied flower morphogenesis and the establishment of a protoplasts transient transformation system in Chirita pumila in my master's degree. In my PhD, I studied the regulation of flowering time in the globally important oilseed crop Brassica napus. At Cambridge, my current project focuses on the effects of gene regulatory networks changes on plant disease resistance pathways. We hope to improve lettuce resistance to fungal pathogens by refining and engineering gene regulatory networks without altering other traits.
Previous Positions
2024, Post-Doctoral Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Qualifications
2019 – 2024, Ph.D, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
2015 - 2019, M.Sc, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Science
2009 - 2015, B.Sc Agriculture, Jiangxi Agricultural University
Key Publications
Juanjuan Wang, Yang Wang, Tianfeng Lü, Xia Yang, Jing Liu, Yang Dong, and Yinzheng Wang. "An efficient and universal protoplast isolation protocol suitable for transient gene expression analysis and single-cell RNA sequencing." International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23, no. 7 (2022): 3419.
Jing Liu, Juan-Juan Wang, Jie Wu, Yang Wang, Qi Liu, Fang-Pu Liu, Xia Yang, and Yin-Zheng Wang. "An optimized transformation system and functional test of CYC-Like TCP gene CpCYC in Chirita pumila (Gesneriaceae)." International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22, no. 9 (2021): 4544.
