Recognizing The Plant Cell first authors: Xin Chai

Xin Chai, co-first author of An RNA-chaperone-like protein plays critical roles in chloroplast mRNA stability and translation in Arabidopsis and maize

Current position: Ph.D. student, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Education: Ph.D. student, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; B.S. Henan Normal University, China

Non-scientific Interests: Running, music, reading and travelling

Brief bio:  I developed a great interest in biological science during my four years university life. So, I started my Ph. D. study in the Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2012. In the first year, I learned some basic experimental techniques, and then I was honored to take part in the project of Prof. Jean-David Rochaix. In this project, I screened proteins which can interact with STN7, a protein kinase of Arabidopsis by the yeast two-hybrid technology. In 2015, I started the research on chloroplast gene expression and regulation under the direction of Prof. Wei Chi. In this study, we found a plastid protein BSF containing two S1-like domain has nucleic acid binding ability and it can regulate the plastid mRNA stability and translation.

 

目前职位: 中国科学院植物研究所光生物学重点实验室在读博士生

教育经历: 2012至今，中国科学院植物研究所在读博士生；2008-2012，河南师范大学生物科学专业学士

兴趣爱好: 跑步，音乐，读书，旅游

本人简介: 大学四年的学习让我对生命科学产生了浓厚的兴趣，2012年大学毕业后到中国科学院植物研究所攻读博士学位，在入学的前几年，我学习了分子生物学的各种相关实验技术，并有幸参与了日内瓦大学Jean-David Rochaix教授的部分课题。在本课题中，我主要运用酵母双杂交技术筛选拟南芥中与STN7互作的蛋白。2015年，我在迟伟研究员的指导下开始了叶绿体基因表达调控的相关研究。在本研究中，我与其它研究者合作鉴定了一个具有RNA分子伴侣活性叶绿体蛋白BSF。它能够与叶绿体mRNA结合，并调控其稳定性和翻译活性。