Degree: Ph.D.
Title: Professor
Graduation School: Oxford Brookes University
Office: 716, South Building
I did my PhD with Prof. Chris Hawes (Oxford, UK) and post-doc research with Prof. Patrick Hussey (Durham, UK). After that, I moved to Huazhong Agricultural University (Wuhan, China) to start my own lab. We use model plant (Arabidopsis) as well as horticultural crops (tomato, citrus) to study plant cell biology and horticultural biology related research. Our current research topics includes Autophagy, ER-Organelle interaction, membrane trafficking, cytoskeleton, plant growth and fruit development. Currently, I am a Plant Cell Biology Committee member of the Botanical Society of China, I am also an associate-editor of the journal New Phytologist.
1. 10/2006-02/2010, PhD in Plant Cell Biology, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
2. 09/2003-06/2006, BSc (Honr) in Biochemistry with Medical Biochemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
1. 05/2017-present, Professor, College of Horticulture & Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, China
2. 03/2011-05/2017, Senior Postdoctoral-research associate, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, UK
3. 03/2010-03/2011 , Postdoctoral-research associate, School of Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
Selected papers:
1. Li C, Duckney P, Zhang T, Fu Y, Li X, Kroon J, Jaeger G, Cheng Y, Hussey P. J.*, and Wang P.* (2022) TraB family proteins are components of ER-mitochondrial contact sites and regulate ER-mitochondrial interactions and mitophagy. Nature Communications. 13:5658
2. Zang, J., Klemm, S., Pain, C., Duckney, P., Bao, Z., Stamm, G., Kriechbaumer, V., Bürstenbinder, K., Hussey, P. J.*, and Wang, P.* (2021). A Novel Plant Actin Microtubule Bridging Complex Regulates Cytoskeletal and ER Structure at Endoplasmic Reticulum Plasma Membrane Contact Sites. Current Biology, 31:1251-1260.
3. Gong, J.#, Zeng, Y.#, Meng, Q., Guan, Y., Li, C., Yang, H., Zhang, Y., Ampomah-Dwamena, C., Liu,P., Chen, C., Deng, X., Cheng, Y., and Wang,P.* (2021). Red light-induced citrus fruit colouration is attributable to increased carotenoid metabolism regulated by FcrNAC22. Journal of Experimental Botany. 72:6274-6290
4. Gong, J.#, Tian, Z.#, Qu, X., Meng, Q., Guan, Y., Liu, P., Chen, C., Deng, X., Guo, W., Cheng, Y., and Wang,P.* (2021). Illuminating the cells: transient transformation of citrus to study gene function and organelle activities related to fruit quality. Horticulture Research, 8:175
5. Wang, P.,* Gao, E., and Hussey PJ.* (2020) Autophagosome biogenesis in plants: an actin cytoskeleton perspective. Trends in Plant Science, 25:850-858.
6. Wang, P.#, Pleskot, R.#, Zang, J., Winkler, J., Wang, J., Yperman, K., Zhang, T., Wang, K., Gong, J., Guan, Y., et al. (2019). Plant AtEH/Pan1 proteins drive autophagosome formation at ER-PM contact sites with actin and endocytic machinery. Nature Communications. 10, 5132.
7. Wang, P., Hawkins, T.J. and Hussey P.J.* (2017) Connecting membranes to the actin cytoskeleton. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 40: 71-76.
8. Wang, P. and Hussey, P.J.* (2017) NETWORKED 3B: a novel protein in the actin cytoskeleton-endoplasmic reticulum interaction. Journal of Experimental Botany 68(7): 1441-1450.
9. Wang P., Hawes C., and Hussey P.J.* (2017) Plant endoplasmic reticulum—plasma membrane contacts sites. Trends in Plant Science, 22(4): 289-297.
10. Wang, P., Richardson, C., Hawes, C. and Hussey, P.J* (2016). Arabidopsis NAP1 regulates the formation of autophagosomes. Current Biology, 26: 2060-2069.
11. Wang, P., Hawkins, T.J., Richardson, C., Sparkes, I., Hawes, C. and Hussey, P.J.* (2016) Plant VAP proteins: domain characterization, intercellular localization, and role in plant development. New Phytologist, 210:1311-1326.
12. Knox, K.,# Wang, P.,# Kriechbaumer, K., Tilsner, J., Frigerio, L., Sparkes, I., Hawes, C. and Oparka, K.* (2015) Putting the squeeze on PDs- a role for RETICULONS in primary plasmodesmata formation. Plant Physiology, 168: 1563. (Co-first author)
13. Wang, P., Hawkins, T.J., Richardson, C., Cummins, I., Deeks, M.J., Sparkes, I., Hawes, C. and Hussey, P.J.* (2014) The plant cytoskeleton, NET3C, and VAP27 mediate the link between the plasma membrane and endoplasmic reticulum. Current Biology, 24, 1397.
14. Wang, P., Hummel, E., Osterrieder, A., Meyer, A.J., Frigerio, L., Sparkes, I. and Hawes, C*. (2011) KMS1 and KMS2, two plant endoplasmic reticulum proteins involved in the early secretory pathway. Plant J, 66, 613-628.
Book:
Patrick J. Hussey and Pengwei Wang (eds.), The Plant Cytoskeleton: Methods and Protocols, Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 2604, (Co-editor)
