2004年毕业于北京师范大学生命科学学院生物科学专业，获学士学位；2010年获北京师范大学生命科学学院细胞生物学专业博士学位，期间主要从事植物细胞骨架结构与功能方向的研究；2011年-2017年分别在德国马克斯-普朗克分子植物生理学研究所、英国剑桥大学从事博士后工作，主要研究植物细胞壁合成的分子调控机理和机械应力调控植物顶端分生组织形态的机制。在Nature Communications、Trends in Plant Science和The Plant Cell等学术期刊上发表论文多篇。2017年底被聘为北京师范大学研究员，就职于北京师范大学生命科学学院细胞增殖及调控生物学教育部重点实验室。
1、植物细胞壁合成的分子调控机理：细胞壁是植物细胞区别于动物细胞的特征性结构之一，在维持植物细胞形态和调控细胞生长等过程中起重要作用，与植物尤其是农作物的株型、抗倒伏性和抗病虫害能力等重要农艺性状密切相关。此外，植物细胞壁具有广泛的工业应用价值，例如其主要成分纤维素不仅是造纸和纺织工业的主要原料，也是可被转化为安全、清洁的可再生能源的生物质资源。本实验室的一个主要方向是研究植物细胞壁中纤维素合成的分子基础，如纤维素合酶复合体新成员的筛选和功能分析、纤维素合酶复合体组装和分泌过程的分子调控机理、细胞壁和细胞骨架之间的相互作用关系等。
研究性论文
1. Lu Liu, Ting Wang, Yifan Bai, Pengcheng Yan, Liufeng Dai, Pingzhou Du, Staffan Persson, Yi Zhang* (2023). Actomyosin and CSI1/POM2 cooperate to deliver cellulose synthase from Golgi to cortical microtubules in Arabidopsis. Nature Communications, 14(1): 7442.
2. Huaqiang Ruan, Ting Wang, Haiyun Ren*, Yi Zhang* (2023). AtFH5-labeled secretory vesicles-dependent calcium oscillation drives exocytosis and stepwise bulge during pollen germination. Cell Reports; 42(11): 113319.
3. 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* (2022). The TOR complex controls ATP levels to regulate actin cytoskeleton dynamics in Arabidopsis. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(38): e2122969119.
4. Chang Liu, Yi Zhang*, Haiyun Ren* (2021). Profilin promotes formin-mediated actin filament assembly and vesicle transport during polarity formation in pollen. The Plant Cell, 33(4): 1252–1267.
5. Yi Zhang*, Youjun Zhang, Heather E. McFarlane, Toshihiro Obata, Andreas S. Richter, Mark Lohse, Bernhard Grimm, Staffan Persson, Alisdair R. Fernie*, Patrick Giavalisco* (2018). Inhibition of TOR represses nutrient consumption, which improves greening after extended periods of etiolation. Plant Physiology, 178(1): 101-117.
6. Chang Liu#, Yi Zhang#, Haiyun Ren (2018). Actin polymerization mediated by AtFH5 directs the polarity establishment and vesicle trafficking for pollen germination in Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant, 11(11): 1389-1399.
7. 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* (2016). Golgi-localized STELLO proteins regulate the assembly and trafficking of cellulose synthase complexes in Arabidopsis. Nature Communications, 7, Article number: 11656, doi:10.1038/ncomms11656.
8. Zheng Zhang#, Yi Zhang#, Hexin Tan, Ying Wang, Gang Li, Wanqi Liang, Zheng Yuan, Jianping Hu, Haiyun Ren*, Dabing Zhang* (2011). RICE MORPHOLOGY DETERMINANT encodes the type II formin FH5 and regulates rice morphogenesis. The Plant Cell, 23: 681-700.
9. Yi Zhang#, Yingyu Xiao#, Fei Du, Lijuan Cao, Huaijian Dong, Haiyun Ren (2011). Arabidopsis VILLIN4 is involved in root hair growth through regulating actin organization in a Ca2+-dependent manner. New Phytologist, 190: 667-682.
10. Jiaojiao Wang#, Yi Zhang#, Jing Wu, Lei Meng, Haiyun Ren (2013). AtFH16, an Arabidopsis type II formin, binds and bundles both microfilaments and microtubules, and preferentially binds to microtubules. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 55 (11): 1002-1015.
11. Henrik Åhl, Yi Zhang, Henrik Jönsson (2022). High-throughput 3D phenotyping of plant shoot apical meristems from tissue-resolution data. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13: 827147.
12. Zhanhong Ren, Yan Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yunqiu He, Pingzhou Du, Zhanxin Wang, Fei Sun, Haiyun Ren (2019), Cryo-EM structure of actin filaments from Zea mays pollen. The Plant Cell, 31(12): 2855–2867.
13. 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 (2017). Two complementary mechanisms underpin cell wall patterning during xylem vessel development. The Plant Cell, 29: 2433–244.
14. Zengyu Liu, Rene Schneider, Christopher Kesten, Yi Zhang, Marc Somssich, Youjun Zhang, Alisdair R. Fernie, Staffan Persson (2016). Cellulose-Microtubule Uncoupling 1 and 2 are necessary to prevent lateral displacement of microtubules during cellulose synthesis in Arabidopsis. Developmental cell, 38: 305-315.
15. Anne Endler#, Christopher Kesten#, René Schneider, Yi Zhang, Alexander Ivakov, Anja Froehlich, Norma Funke, Staffan Persson (2015). A mechanism for sustained cellulose synthesis during salt stress. Cell, 162: 1353-1364.
16. 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* (2015). V-ATPase activity in the TGN/EE is required for exocytosis and recycling in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants, doi:10.1038/nplants.2015.94.
17. Camila Caldana#*, Yan Li#, Andrea Leisse, Yi Zhang, Lisa Bartholomaeus, Alisdair R. Fernie, Lothar Willmitzer, Patrick Giavalisco* (2013). Systemic analysis of inducible target of rapamycin mutants reveal a general metabolic switch controlling growth in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Journal, 73: 897-909.
18. Fei Du, Yi Zhang, Haiyun Ren (2011). The universal bundling activity of AtVLN4 in diffusely growing cells. Plant Signaling & Behavior, 6 (9): 1290-1293.
综述论文
1. Yu Yan, Zhenping Sun, Pengcheng Yan, Ting Wang*, Yi Zhang* (2023). Mechanical regulation of cortical microtubules in plant cells. New Phytologist, 239(5): 1609-1621.
2. Yihao Li, Xin Zhang, Yi Zhang*, Haiyun Ren* (2022). Controlling the gate: the functions of cytoskeleton in stomatal movement. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13: 849729.
3. 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 (2021). Plant multiscale networks: charting plant connectivity by multi-level analysis and imaging techniques. Sci China Life Sci, 64(9):1392-1422.
4. Yi Zhang, Staffan Persson, Jennifer Hirst, Margaret S. Robinso, Daniel van Damme, Clara Saenchez-Rodriguez (2015). Change your Tplate, change your fate: plant CME and beyond. Trends in Plant Science, 20: 41-48.
5. Yi Zhang, Staffan Persson, Patrick Giavalisco (2013). Differential regulation of carbon partitioning by the central growth regulator Target of Rapamycin (TOR). Molecular Plant, 6 (6): 1731-1733.
6. Zengyu Liu, Staffan Persson, Yi Zhang* (2015). The connection of cytoskeletal network with plasma membrane and the cell wall. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 57 (4): 330-340.
7. Weike Pei, Fei Du, Yi Zhang, Tian He, Haiyun Ren (2012). Control of the actin cytoskeleton in root hair development. Plant Science, 187: 10-18.
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