Yiming Yu: The Plant Cell First Author

Yiming Yu, co-first author of “Multiplex CRISPR-Cas9 editing of DNA methyltransferases in rice uncovers a class of non-CG methylation specific for GC-rich regions“

Current Position: Ph.D. candidate, School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China

Education: B.S. and M.S. in Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Non-scientific Interests: traveling, basketball, and movies

Brief bio: During my master’s degree, I had the honor to join the National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, under the tutelage of Prof. Qifa Zhang and Prof. Yiyan Ouyang, to explore the biological mechanism of heterosis in rice. After graduating, I joined the lab of Dr. Jixian Zhai at the Southern University of Science and Technology, to start my Ph.D. studies. In cooperation with the group of Prof. Kejian Wang from the China National Rice Research Institute, we have used CRISPR/Cas9 technology to prepare a series of methylation mutants to systematically study the regulatory network and mechanism of non-CG methylation in rice. Now, I focused on the plant DNA methylation and demethylation, as well as the splicing kinetics of plants based on full-length nascent RNA sequencing.

 

姓名：于义溟

目前职位：南方科技大学，生命科学学院，在读博士

教育经历：华中农业大学学士（2015）、硕士（2018）

兴趣爱好：旅游、篮球、电影

个人简介：硕士期间，我有幸加入作物遗传改良国家重点实验室水稻团队，师从张启发教授和欧阳亦聃教授，探究水稻杂种优势的生物学机理。2018年，加入南方科技大学翟继先博士课题组，攻读博士学位。我们和水稻所王克剑老师课题组合作，利用CRISPR/Cas9技术制备了一系列水稻甲基化突变体来系统地研究水稻non-CG甲基化的调控网络和机制。目前，我主要的研究方向为植物DNA甲基化和去甲基化，以及基于全长新生RNA测序技术研究植物转录过程的剪切动力学。