Recognizing Plant Physiology authors: Zongcheng Lin

Zongcheng Lin, first author of Ectopic expression of a self-incompatibility module triggers growth arrest and cell death in vegetative cells

Current Position: FWO senior postdoc fellow, VIB-UGent joint Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium

Education: Bachelor, Harbin Institute of Technology; PhD, University of Birmingham

Non-scientific Interests: badminton, tennis, hiking, cooking

Brief bio: I started my research career at Harbin Institute of Technology, China, majoring in Bioengineering. Through a series of fortunate accidents, I ended up doing my PhD in Noni Franklin-Tong’s lab at the University of Birmingham. Here I established the functional transfer of the Papaver rhoeas self-incompatibility genes into Arabidopsis (“poppydopsis”). I then moved to Belgium on an independent FWO Fellowship. Using the “poppydopsis” system established during my PhD, I have been investigating the molecular mechanisms of self-incompatibility-induced programmed cell death in Moritz Nowack’s lab at VIB and showed that these genes can work ectopically in vegetative cells as well as in their normal reproductive function. In the future, I’d like to continue researching the molecular mechanisms of self-incompatibility, and the potential application of self-incompatibility in plant breeding.

 

姓名：林宗成

当前职位：根特大学，FWO 博士后

教育经历：哈尔滨工业大学，生物工程学士；伯明翰大学，植物分子与遗传学博士

兴趣爱好：羽毛球，网球，徒步，烹饪

个人简介：我的本科就读于哈尔滨工业大学生物工程专业。一系列机缘巧合，我误打误撞，撞开了伯明翰大学Franklin-Tong实验室的大门，在那里开始我的博士生涯。博士期间，我的研究主要集中在利用虞美人自交不亲和基因，实现自交不亲和现象在不同物种之间的平行转移。博士毕业后，我带着博士期间构建的自交不亲和拟南芥来到比利时根特大学Nowack实验室，继续从事自交不亲和的分子机理研究，并证实了虞美人自交不亲和基因在异位表达的情况下也能诱导程序性死亡。我希望自己将来还能继续从事植物自交不亲和的分子机理研究，并探索其在育种过程中的应用。