2004年获北京师范大学生物科学专业学士学位;2010年获北京师范大学细胞生物学专业博士学位;2011年-2017年先后在德国马克斯-普朗克分子植物生理学研究所、英国剑桥大学从事博士后和助理研究员工作;2017年底入职北京师范大学生命科学学院。
承担本科生必修课程《细胞生物学》、通识课程《探索细胞的奥秘》和研究生课程《细胞骨架系统》的讲授,其中参与主讲的《细胞生物学》课程2020年获评为首批国家级一流本科课程;2022年获北京师范大学彭年杰出青年教师奖;2023年获北京师范大学青年教师教学基本功比赛二等奖、最受学生欢迎奖、北京师范大学生命科学学院爱生科奖教金优秀科研奖;2024年指导本科生获得第9届全国大学生生命科学竞赛 (科学探索类) 一等奖和第10届北京市大学生生物学竞赛一等奖,被评为北京师范大学优秀研究生指导教师。
主要从事植物细胞骨架和细胞壁方向的研究工作,主持多项国家自然科学基金,在Nature Communications、PNAS、The Plant Cell、Cell Reports、New Phytologist等国际一流学术期刊发表30余篇学术论文,相关成果获国际权威期刊重点推介,Nature Plants与Trends in Plant Science 分别以研究亮点形式专文评述,被引用1000余次。现任细胞增殖与调控生物学教育部重点实验室副主任,兼任Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology (Cell Growth and Division section) 专栏副主编、Biologia Plantarum编委、中国细胞生物学学会植物细胞生物学分会委员、中国细胞生物学学会细胞器生物学分会委员、中国细胞生物学学会教育工作委员会委员、中国电镜学会共聚焦专业委员会委员、北京植物学会理事、北京细胞生物学会理事。受邀为Nature Communications、Trends in Plant Science、Plant, Cell and Environment、Journal of Integrative Plant Biology、Current Opinion in Plant Biology、Plant Physiology等领域内主流期刊审稿。
1、植物细胞骨架结构与功能
2、植物细胞壁生物合成
3、植物精细胞递送机制
研究性论文
1. Xiangfei Wang#, Tonghui Li#, Jiuting Xu#, Fanfan Zhang, Lifang Liu, Ting Wang, Chun Wang, Haiyun Ren*, Yi Zhang*. Distinct functions of microtubules and actin filaments in the transportation of MGU in pollen. Nature Communications, 2024, 15: 5448.
2. Yu Yan, Liufeng Dai, Ting Wang*, Yi Zhang*. Damage-Repair Events Increase the Instability of Cortical Microtubules in Arabidopsis. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2024, 35(6): ar86.
3. Lu Liu, Ting Wang, Yifan Bai, Pengcheng Yan, Liufeng Dai, Pingzhou Du, Staffan Persson, Yi Zhang. Actomyosin and CSI1/POM2 cooperate to deliver cellulose synthase from Golgi to cortical microtubules in Arabidopsis. Nature Communications, 2023, 14(1): 7442.
(Spotlighted in Trends in Plant Science 2024: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2024.02.014)
4. Huaqiang Ruan, Ting Wang, Haiyun Ren*, Yi Zhang*. AtFH5-labeled secretory vesicles-dependent calcium oscillation drives exocytosis and stepwise bulge during pollen germination. Cell Reports, 2023, 42(11): 113319.
5. Liufeng Dai, Baojie Wang, Ting Wang, Etienne H. Meyer, Valentin Kettel, Natalie Hoffmann, Heather E. McFarlane, Shalan Li, Xuna Wu, Kelsey L. Picard, Patrick Giavalisco, Staffan Persson, Yi Zhang. The TOR complex controls ATP levels to regulate actin cytoskeleton dynamics in Arabidopsis. PNAS, 2022, 119(38): e2122969119.
(Highlighted in Nature Plants 2022: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01266-z)
6. Chang Liu, Yi Zhang*, Haiyun Ren*. Profilin promotes formin-mediated actin filament assembly and vesicle transport during polarity formation in pollen. The Plant Cell, 2021, 33(4): 1252–1267.
7. Yi Zhang*, Youjun Zhang, Heather E. McFarlane, Toshihiro Obata, Andreas S. Richter, Mark Lohse, Bernhard Grimm, Staffan Persson, Alisdair R. Fernie*, Patrick Giavalisco*. Inhibition of TOR represses nutrient consumption, which improves greening after extended periods of etiolation. Plant Physiology, 2018, 178(1): 101-117.
8. Chang Liu#, Yi Zhang#, Haiyun Ren. Actin polymerization mediated by AtFH5 directs the polarity establishment and vesicle trafficking for pollen germination in Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant, 2018, 11(11): 1389-1399.
9. Yi Zhang#, Nino Nikolovski#, Mathias Sorieul, Tamara Vellosillo, Heather E. McFarlane, Ray Dupree, Christopher Kesten, René Schneider, Carlos Driemeier, Rahul Lathe, Edwin Lampugnani, Xiaolan Yu, Alexander Ivakov, Monika S. Doblin, Jenny C Mortimer, Steven P Brown, Staffan Persson*, Paul Dupree*. Golgi-localized STELLO proteins regulate the assembly and trafficking of cellulose synthase complexes in Arabidopsis. Nature Communications, 2016, 7: 11656.
10. Zheng Zhang#, Yi Zhang#, Hexin Tan, Ying Wang, Gang Li, Wanqi Liang, Zheng Yuan, Jianping Hu, Haiyun Ren, Dabing Zhang. RICE MORPHOLOGY DETERMINANT encodes the type II formin FH5 and regulates rice morphogenesis. The Plant Cell, 2011, 23: 681-700.
11. Yi Zhang#, Yingyu Xiao#, Fei Du, Lijuan Cao, Huaijian Dong, Haiyun Ren. Arabidopsis VILLIN4 is involved in root hair growth through regulating actin organization in a Ca2+-dependent manner. New Phytologist, 2011, 190: 667-682.
12. Jiaojiao Wang#, Yi Zhang#, Jing Wu, Lei Meng, Haiyun Ren. AtFH16, an Arabidopsis type II formin, binds and bundles both microfilaments and microtubules, and preferentially binds to microtubules. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2013, 55 (11): 1002-1015.
13. Wei-Hao Wang, Susanne S. Renner, Hao-Sheng Liu, Liu-Feng Dai, Cai-Jin Chen, Yi Zhang, Bo-Wen Zhang*, Da-Yong Zhang*, Wei-Ning Bai*. Genetic Mechanisms and Adaptive Benefits of Anthocyanin Red Stigmas in a Wind-Pollinated Tree. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2025, 42: 1-11.
14. Jiang Li, Ligang Fan, Ting Yang, Puzhi Zhang, Huaqiang Ruan, Yihao Li, Ting Wang, Yi Zhang, Fanfan Zhang, and Haiyun Ren. AtFH5 Recruits and Transports the Arabinogalactan Protein AGP23 to Maintain the Tip Growth of Pollen Tube. PNAS, 2024, 121 (49): e2410607121.
15. Yanan Xu, Jiangfeng Shen, Huaqiang Ruan, Xiaolu Qu, Yingchao Li, Yingjie Wang, Peiyu Li, Ran Yi, Haiyun Ren, Yi Zhang, Shanjin Huang. A RhoGAP Controls Apical Actin Polymerization by Inhibiting Formin in Arabidopsis Pollen Tubes. Current Biology, 2024, 34(21): 5040-5053.
16. Dong Jiang, Yilin He, Hailin Li, Liufeng Dai, Bingyan Sun, Lianming Yang, Lei Pang, Zhiran Cao, Yu Liu, Jiayang Gao, Yi Zhang, Liwen Jiang, Ruixi Li. A Condensates-to-VPS41-Associated Phagic Vacuoles Conversion Pathway Controls Autophagy Degradation in Plants. Developmental Cell, 2024, 59(17): 2287-2301.
17. Henrik Åhl, Yi Zhang, Henrik Jönsson. High-throughput 3D phenotyping of plant shoot apical meristems from tissue-resolution data. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022, 13: 827147.
18. Zhanhong Ren, Yan Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yunqiu He, Pingzhou Du, Zhanxin Wang, Fei Sun*, Haiyun Ren*. Cryo-EM structure of actin filaments from Zea mays pollen. The Plant Cell, 2019, 31(12): 2855–2867.
19. Rene Schneider, Lu Tang, Edwin R. Lampugnani, Sarah Barkwill, Rahul Lathe, Yi Zhang, Heather E. McFarlane, Edouard Pesquet, Totte Niittyla, Shawn D. Mansfield, Yihua Zhou, and Staffan Persson. Two complementary mechanisms underpin cell wall patterning during xylem vessel development. The Plant Cell, 2017, 29: 2433–244.
20. Zengyu Liu, Rene Schneider, Christopher Kesten, Yi Zhang, Marc Somssich, Youjun Zhang, Alisdair R. Fernie, Staffan Persson*. Cellulose-Microtubule Uncoupling 1 and 2 are necessary to prevent lateral displacement of microtubules during cellulose synthesis in Arabidopsis. Developmental cell, 2016, 38: 305-315.
21. Anne Endler#, Christopher Kesten#, René Schneider, Yi Zhang, Alexander Ivakov, Anja Froehlich, Norma Funke, Staffan Persson. A mechanism for sustained cellulose synthesis during salt stress. Cell, 2015, 162: 1353-1364.
22. Yu Luo#, Stefan Scholl#, Anett Doering#, Yi Zhang, Niloufer G. Irani, Simone Di Rubbo, Lutz Neumetzler, Praveen Krishnamoorthy, Isabelle Van Houtte, Evelien Mylle, Volker Bischoff, Samantha Vernhettes, Johan Winne, Jiří Friml, York-Dieter Stierhof, Karin Schumacher*, Staffan Persson*, Eugenia Russinova*. V-ATPase activity in the TGN/EE is required for exocytosis and recycling in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants, 2015, doi:10.1038/nplants.2015.94.
23. Camila Caldana#*, Yan Li#, Andrea Leisse, Yi Zhang, Lisa Bartholomaeus, Alisdair R. Fernie, Lothar Willmitzer, Patrick Giavalisco*. Systemic analysis of inducible target of rapamycin mutants reveal a general metabolic switch controlling growth in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Journal, 2013, 73: 897-909.
24. Fei Du, Yi Zhang, Haiyun Ren. The universal bundling activity of AtVLN4 in diffusely growing cells. Plant Signaling & Behavior, 2011, 6 (9): 1290-1293.
综述论文
1. Zhenping Sun, Xueqing Wang, Chaoyong Peng, Liufeng Dai, Ting Wang*, Yi Zhang*. Regulation of Cytoskeleton Dynamics and Its Interplay with Force in Plant Cells. Biophysics Review, 2024, 5: 041307.
2. Yu Yan, Zhenping Sun, Pengcheng Yan, Ting Wang*, Yi Zhang*. Mechanical regulation of cortical microtubules in plant cells. New Phytologist, 2023, 239(5): 1609-1621.
3. Yihao Li, Xin Zhang, Yi Zhang*, Haiyun Ren*. Controlling the gate: the functions of cytoskeleton in stomatal movement. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022, 13: 849729.
4. Xi Zhang#, Yi Man#, Xiaohong Zhuang#, Jinbo Shen#, Yi Zhang#, Yaning Cui, Meng Yu, Jingjing Xing, Guangchao Wang, Na Lian, Zijian Hu, Lingyu Ma, Weiwei Shen, Shunyao Yang, Huimin Xu, Jiahui Bian, Yanping Jing, Xiaojuan Li, Ruili Li, Tonglin Mao, Yuling Jiao, Sodmergen, Haiyun Ren, Jinxing Lin. Plant multiscale networks: charting plant connectivity by multi-level analysis and imaging techniques. Sci China Life Sci, 2021, 64(9):1392-1422.
5. Yi Zhang, Staffan Persson, Jennifer Hirst, Margaret S. Robinso, Daniel van Damme, Clara Saenchez-Rodriguez. Change your Tplate, change your fate: plant CME and beyond. Trends in Plant Science, 2015, 20: 41-48.
6. Zengyu Liu, Staffan Persson, Yi Zhang. The connection of cytoskeletal network with plasma membrane and the cell wall. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2015, 57 (4): 330-340.
7. Yi Zhang, Staffan Persson, Patrick Giavalisco. Differential regulation of carbon partitioning by the central growth regulator Target of Rapamycin (TOR). Molecular Plant, 2013, 6 (6): 1731-1733.
8. Weike Pei, Fei Du, Yi Zhang, Tian He, Haiyun Ren. Control of the actin cytoskeleton in root hair development. Plant Science, 2012, 187: 10-18.
*共同通讯作者;#共同第一作者