Recognizing Plant Cell authors: Chaobin Li

Chaobin Li, first author of A SnRK1-ZmRFWD3-Opaque2 signaling axis regulates diurnal nitrogen accumulation in maize seeds

Current Position: Postdoc, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern

Education: Ph.D. in Shanghai University; B.S. in Shanghai University

Non-scientific Interests: hiking, documentary film, esports

Brief bio: I’ve always found it fascinating how crops were domesticated and how they helped us human beings to reach the top of the food chain. In my senior year at Shanghai University, I started working in Rentao Song’s lab and started to realize that crops like maize still have huge room for improvement. In my Ph.D. studies, I focus on the transcription regulatory network of Opaque2 in maize endosperm (Li, et al., Plant Cell, 2015). My other project during Ph.D. focused on the identification of transcription factors regulating zein-coding genes (Li, et al., Plant Cell, 2018). In 2017, I became a postdoc at China Agricultural University. After years of unremitting efforts by my colleagues, we finally characterized this SnRK1-ZmRFWD3-Opaque2 signaling axis that transduces the source-to-sink signals and coordinates C and N assimilation in developing maize seeds. Now I have started a new research life in Switzerland at the University of Bern.

 

姓名：李朝斌

现在职位：伯尔尼大学，植物科学研究所，博士后

教育经历：上海大学，生物信息与系统生物学博士；上海大学，生物工程学士

兴趣爱好：徒步，纪录片

个人简介：我一直对作物的驯化非常着迷，因为它帮助人类达到了地球食物链的顶端。在上海大学本科的第三年开始，我进入宋任涛教授实验室开展研究，也是从那时起，我才发现玉米这样农作物仍有很大的改良空间。在我的博士研究中，我专注于玉米胚乳中关键转录因子Opaque2的调控网络研究。期间的另一个项目则是鉴定调控玉米醇溶蛋白基因的转录因子。2017年，我得到“博新计划”资助，开始在中国农业大学国家玉米改良中心进行博士后研究。经过宋任涛教授课题组多年的不懈努力，我们终于解析了玉米中的SnRK1-ZmRFWD3-Opaque2信号通路，该通路转导了“源”到“库”的信号并协调了玉米籽粒发育过程中的C和N同化。2019年底，我在瑞士伯尔尼大学开始了新的科研工作。