Recognizing Plant Cell first author: Jiao Zhan

Jiao ZHAN, co-first author of The cytochrome b6f complex is not involved in cyanobacterial state transitions

Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher, Kirilovsky lab, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France; Assistant researcher, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Education: Ph.D., Genetics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; B.S. Living marine resources and Environmental Science, Ningbo University, China

Non-scientific Interests: Running, travelling, classic music and hiking

Brief bio:  In 2016, I obtained the PhD’s degree in Genetics at Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. My graduate research focus on how cyanobacteria acclimate to high light and the molecular regulation mechanism inside. After graduation, I continue focusing on how cyanobacteria respond and adapt to changing environment. Here my postdoctoral research has two themes, one on the physiological role of the protein phosphorylation to stress acclimation in cyanobacteria and the second on regulation mechanism of a high light induced protein in cyanobacteria. In the current paper, my research contributed to stop the puzzle about whether phosphorylation reactions are involved in state transition in cyanobacteria. We clearly showed that phosphorylation reactions and cytochrome b6f are not involved in state transition of cyanobacteria and the mechanism is completely different from those in plant and green algae.

 

湛交：The cytochrome b6f complex is not involved in cyanobacterial state transitions

目前的职位：助理研究员，中国科学院水生生物研究所；博士后，法国原子能委员会；

教育背景：博士，遗传学，中国科学院大学；学士，海洋生物资源与环境专业，宁波大学。

兴趣爱好：跑步，旅游，徒步以及古典音乐

简介：我于2016年从中国科学院水生生物研究所毕业，获得遗传学博士学位。研究生阶段，我主要关注蓝藻适应强光的机制及其调控的分子机制。同年我留所担任助理研究员，并于2017年来到法国原子能委员会Diana Kirilovsky实验室做博士后，开展合作研究，主要从事两个方向的工作，一是蓝藻的状态转化机制研究，二是探索一个sRNA对于蓝藻的强光调节蛋白OCP的表达调控作用。 在本研究中，我们发现，与绿藻以及高等植物中完全不同， 细胞色素b6f以及蛋白质磷酸化完全不参与蓝藻的状态转化，在未来的研究中，我们需要从全新的角度来探索这一问题。