hu, Yan, Associated Professor

E-mail: zhu_yan@fudan.edu.cn

1996-2006, Yan Zhu studied in the School of life sciences, Fudan University. He performed the post-doctoral research at Fudan University in 2007-2008, and got a faculty position to work on plant epigenetics in 2009.

Research Interests)

Plant epigenetics. The mechanisms of chromatin modulation by chromatin remodeling factors and histone chaperones in DNA replication, transcription and DNA repair, and the functional implication of chromatin compaction and its dynamic regulation in physiological metabolism in plants.  

Selected publications

1. Zhu Y*, Rong L, Luo Q, Wang B, Zhou N, Yang Y, Zhang C, Feng H, Zheng L, Shen W, Ma J*, Dong A*. (2017) The Histone Chaperone NRP1 Interacts With WEREWOLF to Activate GLABRA2 in Arabidopsis Root Hair Development. Plant Cell. doi: 10.1105/tpc.16.00719
2. Zhang C, Cao L, Rong L, An Z, Zhou W, Ma J, Shen W, Zhu Y*, Dong A*. (2015) The chromatin-remodeling factor AtINO80 plays crucial roles in genome stability maintenance and in plant development. Plant J. 82(4):655-68. doi: 10.1111/tpj.12840
3. Zhou W^#, Zhu Y^#, Dong A, Shen W. (2015) Histone H2A/H2B chaperones: from molecules to chromatin-based functions in plant growth and development. Plant J. 83(1): 78-95. doi: 10.1111/tpj.12830
4. Weng M, Yang Y, Feng H, Pan Z, Shen W, Zhu Y*, Dong A*. (2014) Histone chaperone ASF1 is involved in gene transcription activation in response to heat stress in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Environ. 37(9):2128-38. doi: 10.1111/pce.12299
5. Gao J^#, Zhu Y^#, Zhou W, Molinier J, Dong A, Shen W. (2012) NAP1 Family Histone Chaperones Are Required for Somatic Homologous Recombination in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 24(4): 1437-1447. doi: 10.1105/tpc.112.096792
6. Zhu Y, Dong A, Shen W. (2012) Histone variants and chromatin assembly in plant abiotic stress responses. Biochim Biophys Acta 1819(3-4): 343-348. doi:10.1016/j.bbagrm.2011.07.012