Kunpeng Liu: The Plant Cell Author Profile

Kunpeng Liu, first author of “Intragenic tRNA-promoted R-loops orchestrate transcription interference for plant oxidative stress responses”

Current Position: Postdoc at School of Life Sciences in Tsinghua University

Education: B.S. from Huazhong Agricultural University；P.hD. from Fudan University

Non-scientific Interests: Reading, running

Brief bio:

I am interested in transcriptional regulation of genes in plants. During my master and doctor stages, I focused on the biological functions of histone methylation modifications in rice and discovered that H3K4/K36 methyltransferases regulate rice growth and development through establishing H3K4/K36 methylation modifications. During my postdoctoral stage, I focused on the biological functions of R-loops in Arabidopsis thaliana and discovered that intragenic tRNA R-loops regulate the transcription of genes by regulating transcription interference between RNA polymerases and it regulates plant tolerance to oxidative stress.

姓名：刘坤朋

现在职位：清华大学生命科学学院博士后

教育经历：学士：华中农业大学；博士：复旦大学

兴趣爱好：阅读、跑步

个人简介：

我对植物基因转录调控比较感兴趣。博士期间，主要研究水稻中组蛋白甲基化修饰的生物学功能，发现H3K4/K36甲基转移酶通过建立H3K4/K36甲基化修饰调控水稻的生长发育。在博士后阶段，主要研究拟南芥中R-loops的生物学功能，发现基因内tRNA R-loops通过调控RNA聚合酶之间的转录干扰调控基因的转录，进而调控植物对氧化胁迫的耐受。