Degree: Ph.D.
Title: Professor
Graduation school: Lanzhou University; Tsinghua University
Office: 414, South Building
I obtained my bachelor degree from Lanzhou University followed by my graduate study in Tsinghua University. During that, I spent one year in Professor Xuemei Chen’s lab at University of California, Riverside as a visiting student. After obtaining PhD from Tsinghua, I joined Professor Sir David Baulcombe’s group at University of Cambridge as a postdoctoral researcher. During my time in David’s lab, I had been studying tomato antiviral silencing and epigenetics, and identified critical genes involved in tomato viral defense and mechanisms of transposon control. After finishing my postdoc, I started my own lab in Huazhong Agricultural University. My lab is focusing on tomato-virus interaction and roles of epigenetics in tomato growth and development. Using genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry and genomics, we are aiming to address how tomato regulates the antiviral defense precisely and how DNA methylation regulates tomato growth and development.
- 2006.09-2013.01 Tsinghua University. PhD. Biology;
- 2007.12-2008.12 University of California, Riverside. Visiting Student. Plant Science;
- 2002.09-2006.06 Lanzhou University. BS. Biology.
- 2021.04-present Huazhong Agricultural University. Professor;
- 2013.11-2021.03 University of Cambridge. Postdoc Researcher.
(*corresponding author; #co-first author)
- Zhengming Wang*, Xiao Yu Wang, Claudia Martinho, David C. Baulcombe. Post-transcriptional Gene Silencing Using Virus-Induced Gene Silencing to Study Plant Gametogenesis in Tomato. Methods in Molecular Biology, 2022, 2484201-212.
- Cláudia Martinho, Zhengming Wang, Andrea Ghigi, Sarah Buddle, Felix Barbour, Antonia Yarur, Quentin Gouil, Sebastian Müller, Maike Stam, Chang Liu, David C Baulcombe*. CHROMOMETHYLTRANSFERASE3/KRYPTONITE maintains the sulfurea paramutation in Solanum lycopersicum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022, 119(13):e2112240119.
- Zhengming Wang, David C. Baulcombe*. Transposon age and non-CG methylation. Nature Communications, 2020, 111221.
- Zhengming Wang, Thomas J. Hardcastle, Alex Canto Pastor, Wing Hin Yip, Shuoya Tang, David C. Baulcombe*. A novel DCL2-dependent miRNA pathway in tomato affects susceptibility to RNA viruses. Genes & Development, 2018, 321155-1160.
- Wei Xue#, Zhengming Wang#, Mingjian Du, Yidi Liu, Jin-Yuan Liu*. Genome-wide analysis of small RNAs reveals eight fiber elongation-related and 257 novel microRNAs in elongating cotton fiber cells. BMC Genomics, 2013, 14629.
- Zheng-Ming Wang#, Wei Xue#, Chun-Juan Dong, Long-Guo Jin, Shao-Min Bian, Chuan Wang, Xiu-Yun Wu, Jin-Yuan Liu*. A comparative miRNAome analysis reveals seven fiber initiation-related and 36 novel miRNAs in developing cotton ovules. Molecular Plant, 2012, 5(4):889-900.
- Binglian Zheng, Zhengming Wang, Shengben Li, Bin Yu, Jin-Yuan Liu, Xuemei Chen*. Intergenic transcription by RNA polymerase II coordinates Pol IV and Pol V in siRNA-directed transcriptional gene silencing in Arabidopsis. Genes & Development, 2009, 23(24):2850-2860.
