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Wang,Yingxiang

Wang,Yingxiang, Professor

E-mail: yx_wang@fudan.edu.cn

 

 

 

 

B.A. and Ph.D. studies in Soil and Agricultural Biochemistry and Plant Nutrition at South China Agricultural University in 2002 and 2007; Visiting scholar at Department of Biology at Pennsylvania State University (2004-2005, 2013-2-14); Post-doctoral fellow at South China Agricultural University (2007-2009) and Fudan University (2009-2011); Associate Professor (2011-2015) and Professor (2015-present) at the School of Life Sciences, Fudan University.

 

Research Interests

Using molecular genetics, cell biology, genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics and other approaches in Arabidopsis and vegetables to study: (1) Molecular mechanisms in regulation of meiosis during plant reproductive development; (2) Application of meiotic recombination into crop breeding；(3) Molecular mechanism in regulation of soybean in adaption to low latitudes.

 

Awards

2013, Rising-Star Program of Shanghai Science and Technology Committee

2016, Changjiang Scholars Programme for Youth Scientist of Ministry of Education

 

Selected publications

  1. Xue M, Wang J, Jiang L, Wolfe S, Pawlowskic W*, Wang Y*, He Y*. (2018) The number of meiotic double-strand breaks influences crossover distribution in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. doi:10.1105/tpc.18.00531
  2. Bolaños-Villegas P*, Xu W, Martínez-García M, Pradillo M, Wang Y. (2018) Insights into the role of ubiquitination in meiosis: fertility, adaptation and plant breeding. The Arabidopsis Book. e0187. doi: 10.1199/tab.0187
  3. Wang Y, Copenhaver G. (2018) Meiotic Recombination: Mixing It Up in Plants. Annu Rev Plant Biol. 69: 577-609.
  4. Su H#, Chen Z#, Huang J, Lin J, Copenhaver G, Ma H, Wang Y*. (2017) Arabidopsis RAD51, RAD51C and XRCC3 proteins form a complex and facilitate RAD51 localization on chromosomes for meiotic recombination. PLOS Genetics. e1006827
  5. Wang J, Niu B, Huang J, Wang H, Yang X, Dong A, Mackaroff C, Ma H, Wang Y*. (2016) Arabidopsis MMD1 ensures the progression of male meiotic chromosome Condensation and directly regulates the expression of condensin gene CAP-D3. Plant Cell. 28:1894-1909.
  6. Huang J, Copenhaver G, Ma H, Wang Y*. (2016) New insights into the role of DNA synthesis in meiotic recombination. Science Bulletin. 61:1260–1269.
  7. Niu B#, Wang L#, Zhang L, Ren D, Ren R, Copenhaver G, Ma H*, Wang Y* .(2015) The Arabidopsis CDC20.1 gene is required for normal meiotic spindle assembly and chromosome segregation. Plant Cell. 27:1-16. 
  8. Huang J#, Cheng Z#, Wang C, Hong Y, Su H, Wang H, Copenhaver G, Ma H*, Wang Y*. (2015) Formation of interference-sensitive meiotic crossovers requires sufficient DNA leading strand elongation. PNAS. 112:12534-9. 
  9. Wang Y, Xiao R, Wang H, Cheng Z, Li W, Zhu G, Wang Y, Ma H. (2014) The Arabidopsis RAD51 paralogs RAD51B, RAD51D and XRCC2 play partially redundant roles in somatic DNA repair and gene regulation. New Phytol. 201: 292-304.
  10. Wang Y#, Cheng Z#, Huang J, Shi Q, Hong Y, Copenhaver G, Gong Z, Ma H*. (2012) The DNA replication factor RFC1 is required for interference-sensitive meiotic crossovers in Arabidopsis. PLOS Genetics. 10.1371:1003039