Jianhua Zhu
CURRICULUM VITAE
Jianhua Zhu
Department of Botany and Plant Sciences
Institute for Integrative Genome Biology
University of California-Riverside
2150 Batchelor Hall
Riverside, CA 92521
Phone: (951) 827-7868 (office)
(951) 236-4329 (mobile)
Fax: (951) 827-4437
E-mail: jianhuaz@ucr.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Plant Molecular Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, 2004
B.S.
Biological Education, Anhui Institute of Education, Hefei, P. R. China, 1998
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2004-Present Postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Riverside, California, USA.
Supervisor: Dr. Jian-Kang Zhu
Research areas: salt and drought tolerance, cold stress, ABA responses, and gene
silencing.
1999-2004
Graduate student, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
Supervisors: Dr. Ray A. Bressan and Dr. Paul M. Hasegawa
Areas studied: molecular genetics of salt, drought and freezing tolerance in
Arabidopsis.
PUBLICATIONS
Gong, Z., Koiwa, H., Cushman, M.A., Ray, A., Bufford, D., Kore-eda, S., Matsumoto, T.K., Zhu,
J., Cushman, J.C., Bressan, R.A., and Hasegawa, P.M. (2001) Genes that are uniquely stress
regulated in salt overly sensitive (sos) mutants. Plant Physiol. 126: 363-375. Impact factor (IF) =
6.114.
Koiwa, H., Barb, A.W., Xiong, L., Li, F., McCully, M.G., Lee, B.H., Sokolchik, I., Zhu, J., Gong,
Z., Reddy, M., Sharkhuu, A., Manabe, Y., Yokoi, S., Zhu, J.-K., Bressan, R.A., and Hasegawa,
P.M. (2002) C-terminal domain phosphatase-like family members (AtCPLs) differentially
regulate Arabidopsis thaliana abiotic stress signaling, growth, and development. Proc. Natl.
Acad. Sci. USA 99: 10893-10898. IF = 10.231.
Zhu, J., Gong, Z., Zhang, C., Song, C.-P., Damsz, B., Inan, G., Koiwa, H., Zhu, J.-K., Hasegawa,
P.M., and Bressan, R.A. (2002) OSM1/SYP61: a syntaxin protein in Arabidopsis controls
abscisic acid-mediated and non-abscisic acid-mediate responses to abiotic stress. Plant Cell 14:
3009-3028. IF = 11.088.
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Zhu, J., Shi, H., Lee, B.-h., Damsz, B., Cheng, S., Stirm, V., Zhu, J.-K., Hasegawa, P.M. and
Bressan, R.A. (2004) An Arabidopsis homeodomain transcription factor gene, HOS9 mediates
cold tolerance through a novel pathway. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101: 9873-9878. IF = 10.231.
Koiwa, H., Li, F., McCully, M.G., Mendoza, I., Koizumi, N., Manabe, Y., Nakagawa, Y., Zhu, J.,
Rus, A., Pardo, J.M., Bressan, R.A., and Hasegawa, P.M. (2004) The STT3a subunit isoform of
the Arabidopsis oligosaccharyltransferase controls adaptive responses to salt/osmotic stress. Plant
Cell 15: 2273-2284. IF = 11.088.
Inan, G., Zhang, Q., Li, P., Wang, Z., Cao, Z., Zhang, H., Zhang, C., Quist, T.M., Goodwin, S.M.,
Zhu, J., Shi, H., Damsz, B., Charbaji, T., Gong, Q., Ma, S., Fredricksen, M., Galbraith, D.W.,
Jenks, M.A., Rhodes, D., Hasegawa, P.M., Bohnert, H.J., Joly, R.J., Bressan, R.A., and Zhu, J.-K.
(2004) Salt Cress. A Halophyte and Cryophyte Arabidopsis Relative Model System and Its
Applicability to Molecular Genetic Analyses of Growth and Development of Extremophiles.
Plant Physiol. 135: 1718-1737. IF = 6.114.
Gong, Z., Dong, C.-H., Lee, H., Zhu, J., Xiong, L., Gong, D., Stevenson, B., Zhu, J.-K. (2005) A
DEAD Box RNA Helicase Is Essential for mRNA Export and Important for Development and
Stress Responses in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 17: 256-267. IF = 11.088.
Zhu, J., Verslues, P.E., Zheng, X., Lee, B.H., Zhan, X., Manabe, Y., Zhu, Y., Dong, C.H., Zhu,
J.-K., Hasegawa, P.M. and Bressan, R.A. (2005) HOS10 encodes an R2R3-type MYB
transcription factor essential for cold acclimation in plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102:
9966-9971. IF = 10.231.
Borsani, J.O., Zhu, J., Verslues, P.E. and Zhu, J.-K. (2005) Endogenous siRNAs derived from a
pair of natural cis-antisense transcripts regulate salt tolerance in Arabidopsis. Cell 123: 12791291. IF = 29.431.
Verslues, P.E., Agarwal, M., Katiyar-Agarwal, S., Zhu, J. and Zhu, J.-K. (2006) Methods and
concepts in quantifying resistance to drought, salt and freezing, abiotic tresses that affect plant
water status. Plant J. 45: 523-539. IF = 6.969.
Chinnusamy, V., Zhu, J. and Zhu, J.-K. (2006) Gene regulation during cold acclimation in plants.
Physiol. Plant. 126: 52-61. IF = 2.112.
Chinnusamy, V., Zhu, J. and Zhu, J.-K. (2006) Salt stress signaling and mechanisms of plant salt
tolerance. Genet. Eng. (N Y) 27: 141-177.
Lee, B.-H., Kapoor, A., Zhu, J. and Zhu, J.K. (2006) STABILIZED1, a stress-upregulated
nuclear protein, is required for pre-mRNA splicing, mRNA turnover, and stress tolerance in
Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 18: 1736-1749. IF = 11.088.
Katiyar-Agarwal, S., Zhu, J., Kim, K., Fu, X., Agarwal, M., Huang, A. and Zhu, J.-K. (2006)
The plasma membrane Na+/H+ antiporter SOS1 interacts with RCD1 and functions in oxidative
stress tolerance in Arabidopsis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.USA. 103: 18816-18821. IF = 10.231.
Zheng, X., Zhu, J., Kapoor, A. and Zhu, J.-K. (2007) Role of Arabidopsis Argonaute 6 in locusspecific heterochromatin siRNA accumulation, DNA methylation and transcriptional gene
silencing. EMBO J. 26: 1691-1701. IF = 10.053.
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Zhu, J., Kapoor, A., Sridhar, V.V., Agius, F. and Zhu, J.-K. (2007) The DNA glycosylase/lyase
ROS1 functions in pruning the DNA methylation patterns in Arabidopsis. Curr. Biol. 17: 54-59.
IF = 11.732.
Zhu, J., Koo, Y.D., Jenney Jr., F.E., Adams, M.W.W., Zhu, J.K., Yun, D.-J., Hasegawa, P.M. and
Bressan, R.A. (2007) An enhancer mutant of the Arabidopsis salt overly sensitive 3 connects ion
homeostasis to the oxidative stress response. Mol. Cell. Biol. 2007 May 7; [Epub ahead of print] IF
= 7.093.
Zhu, J., Dong, C.-H., and Zhu, J.-K. (2007) Interplays between cold responsive gene regulation,
metabolism and RNA processing during plant cold acclimation. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 10: 290295. IF = 10.807.
Chinnusamy, V., Zhu, J. and Zhu, J.-K. (2007) Cold stress regulation of gene expression
in plants. Trends Plant Sci. In press. IF = 9.701.
Zhu, J., Byeong-ha Lee, B.-h., Dick, M., Nothnagel, E.A. and Zhu, J.-K. (2007) SOS6 encodes a
cellulose synthase-like protein and is required for osmotic stress tolerance in Arabidopsis. Plant
Cell In revision. IF = 11.088.
Zhu, J., Jeong, J., Zhu, Y., Sokolchik, I., Miyazaki, S., Zhu, J.-K., Paul M. Hasegawa,
Bohnert, H.J., Shi, H., Yun, D.-J., Hasegawa, P.M. and Bressan, R.A. (2007) Involvement of
Arabidopsis HOS15 in histone deacetylation and cold tolerance. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA.
In revision. IF = 10.231.
Verslues, P.E., Batelli, G., Grillo, S., Agius1, F., Kim, Y.-S., Zhu, J., Agarwal, M., KatiyarAgarwal, S. and Zhu1, J.-K. (2007) Interaction of SOS2 with NDPK2 and catalases reveals a
point of connection between salt stress and H2O2 signaling in Arabidopsis. Mol. Cell. Biol. In
revision. IF = 7.093.
INVITED CONFERENCE OR SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
2002 Plant Biology 2002 (annual meeting of the American Society of Plant biologists
(ASPB)). Minisymposium on Salinity/Water Stress. “OSM1/SYP61: a syntaxin
protein in Arabidopsis controls abscisic acid-mediated and non-abscisic acid-mediate
responses to abiotic stress”. Denver, Colorado. August 2-7.
2003 Department of Horticulture 2003 spring seminar series. “Using T-DNA tagging to
isolate novel genes controlling abiotic stress tolerance”. Purdue University, West
Lafayette, Indiana. February 27.
2004 Plant Biology 2004. Minisymposium on Temperature Stress. “An Arabidopsis
homeodomain transcription factor gene, HOS9 mediates cold tolerance through a
novel pathway”. Orlando, Florida. July 23-28.
2005 Gordon Research Conference ‘Temperature Stress in Plants’. “CBF-independent
transcription factors in cold tolerance”. Ventura, CA. January 30 - February 4.
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2005 Center for Plant Cell Biology (CEPCEB) seminar series. “SOS6 encodes a cellulose
synthase-like protein that is required for osmotic stress tolerance in Arabidopsis”.
University of California, Riverside. May 27.
2006 First International Conference on the Theory and Practices in Biological Water
Saving. “Molecular mechanisms of salt and drought tolerance”. Beijing, China. May
21-25.
2007 Gordon Research Conference ‘‘Temperature Stress in Plants’. A WD40 protein is
important for histone deacetylation and freezing tolerance in Arabidopsis.
Ventura, CA. January 21-26.
2007 Abiotic Stress Workshop in Legumes (model legume congress 2007 satellite
workshop). “Role of small non-coding regulatory RNAs in plant abiotic stress
responses”. Tunis, Tunisia. March 22-24.
2007 Workshop on Environment and Development. The 18th International Conference on
Arabidopsis Research. Beijing, China. June 20-23.
MEMBERSHIP
2000-Present American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)
2002-Present American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
SERVICE TO THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNINITY
2005-2009
Editor of Plant Signaling & Behavior
Ad hoc reviewer for manuscripts submitted to Plant Journal, Plant Physiology, Plant Science,
New Phytologist, Planta and Journal of Integrative Plant Biology.
Ad hoc reviewer for grant proposals submitted to USDA National Research Initiative (NRI) Plant
Biology (B): Environmental Stress Program and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific
Research (NWO, the Dutch Research Council) that manages the Dutch Russian scientific cooperation program.
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REFERENCES:
1. Dr. Ray A. Bressan, Distinguished professor
Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology
Department of Horticulture
Purdue University
625 Agricultural Mall Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010
Phone: 765-494-1336
Email: bressan@purdue.edu
2. Dr. Paul M. Hasegawa, Distinguished professor
Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology
Department of Horticulture
Purdue University
625 Agricultural Mall Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010
Phone: 765-494-1315
Email: paul.m.hasegawa.1@purdue.edu
3. Dr. Jian-Kang Zhu, Presidential Chair Professor
Department of Botany and Plant Sciences
Center for Plant Cell Biology (CEPCEB)
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
Phone: 951-827-7117
Email: jian-kang.zhu@ucr.edu
4. Dr. Eugene A. Nothnagel, Professor
Department of Botany & Plant Sciences-072
Center for Plant Cell Biology (CEPCEB)
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
Phone: 951-827-3777
E-mail: eugene.nothnagel@ucr.edu
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