EDUCATION BACKGROUND:
2005-2009 B.A. in Horticulture, College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agriculture University, China.
2009-2014 Ph.D. in Olericulture, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, China.
2012-2014 Visiting Scholar, Center for plant science innovation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE, U.S.A
2015-2017 Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Agronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE, U.S.A
2017-present: Assistant Research Professor, Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, PA, U.S.A
My current research interests:
1. Epigenetic Breeding Potential in Tomato.
2. Plastids and Mitochondrial Retrograde Regulation pathway in plant.
3. Heterosis and Epigenetics in crop plant.
4. Transcriptome and Methylome data mining for crop plant.
During the past five years, I have been working on investigating how nuclear genes interact with
mitochondria and plastids to control plant growth and development. I study the regulation of protein
dual targeting within the plant cell, the influence of organellar states on plant stress response, and the
relationship of organellar processes to the epigenome, I also conduct tomato breeding field research in
both Florida and Pennsylvania. Recently, I have been working on developing a new methodology for
plant methylome analysis with a statistician at PSU.
