Min Yuan: Plant Physiology First Author

Min Yuan, co-first author of “A common whole-genome paleotetraploidization in Cucurbitales”

Current Position: Associate professor, School of Life Sciences, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, Hebei, China

Education: Ph.D. at Hebei Normal University in China

Non-scientific Interests: reading, travelling

Brief bio: I obtained my Ph.D. in Cell Biology in Dr. Ying Sun’s lab at Hebei Normal University, where my doctorate dissertation focused on brassinosteroids (BRs) signaling. During that period, I had been working on Protein Phosphatase 2A (PP2A) in Dr. Zhiyong Wang’s lab in Carnegie Institution at Stanford as a visiting graduate student funded by China Scholarship Council. We demonstrated PP2A is a key component in BR signaling pathway. Currently I’m an associate professor at North China University of Science and Technology. Since joining this university, I got focused on plant polyploidy or whole-genome duplication/triplication (WGD/T), especially on the effects of plant genome polyploidization on the expansion or contraction of important functional gene families.

论文: “A common whole-genome paleotetraploidization in Cucurbitales”的共同第一作者

姓名: 袁敏

当前职位: 副教授，华北理工大学生命科学学院

教育经历:  河北师范大学获得博士学位

非科研爱好:  阅读、旅行

个人简介:

我在河北师范大学孙颖博士的实验室获得了细胞生物学的博士学位，我的博士论文主要是关于卤素类固醇（BRs）信号的。在此期间，我作为国家留学基金委资助的访问研究生，在斯坦福大学卡内基研究所王志勇博士的实验室从事蛋白磷酸酶2A（PP2A）的研究。我们证明了PP2A是BR信号通路的一个关键组成部分。目前我是华北理工大学的一名副教授。加入该校后，我专注于植物多倍体或全基因组复制/三倍体（WGD/T）的研究，特别是植物基因组多倍体化对重要功能基因家族的扩展或收缩的影响。