PENG CHENG CURRICULUM VITA Last updated: Oct 1, 2014
EDUCATION
2008-2012 Ph.D. Degree, Granted Date: July, 2012
Major: Plant Pathology
2006-2008
Institution: Department of Plant Pathology,
Washington State University
Graduate Project: Molecular mapping of new genes for effective resistance to stripe rust in durum wheat; and development and use of cDNA-derived markers for studying Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici
M.S. Degree, Granted Date: December, 2008
Major: Plant Pathology
Institution: Department of Plant Pathology,
Washington State University
Graduate Project: Molecular mapping of a gene for resistance to stripe rust in
Major: spring wheat cultivar IDO377s and identification of a new race of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici virulent on IDO377s.
Molecular Plant Sciences 2004-2006
1999-2003
Institution: Institute of Biological Chemistry,
Washington State University
B.S. Degree, Granted Date: June, 2003
Major: Biotechnology
2006-2008
Institution: School of Life Science and Technology,
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan,
China
Graduate Project: The relationship between Calcium and elicitation of secondary metabolites biosyntheses in Taxus chinensis cells.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2012-present Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dr. Rebecca McGee’s lab, Crop and Soil
Sciences, Washington State University
Association mapping of pea and lentil populations using SSR and SNP genotyping,
Genome Wide Association Selection and Genotyping By Sequencing for
2008-2012 economical valuable traits
Ph.D. Research assistant, Dr. Xianming Chen’s lab, Department of Plant
Pathology, Washington State University
Molecular mapping of new genes for effective resistance to stripe rust in durum wheat; and development and use of cDNA-derived markers for studying Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici
M.S. Research assistant, Dr. Xianming Chen’s lab, Department of Plant
Pathology, Washington State University
Stripe rust resistance genes mapping and population genetics of stripe rust fungi
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2005-2006
2005
2004-2005
Ph.D. Research assistant, Dr. Mark Lange’s lab, Institute of Biological
Chemistry, Washington State University
Leucoplast isolation from secretory cells of peppermint ( Mentha
× piperita )
Ph.D. Research assistant, Dr. Mike Kahn’s lab, Institute of Biological
Chemistry, Washington State University
Arbitrary PCR for generation and identification of Tn5 transposon insertion sites of
Sinorhizobium meliloti 1021: characterization of desiccation response mutants
Ph.D. Research assistant, Dr. Mark Lange’s lab, Institute of Biological
2004
2001-2004
Chemistry, Washington State University
1-deoxy-D-xylulose-5-phosphate reductoisomerase (DXR) expression in E. coli
Ph.D. Research assistant, Dr. John Browse’s lab, Institute of Biological
Chemistry, Washington State University
Map-based cloning of rod1 gene in Arabidopsis
Undergraduate Research assistant, Resource Biology & Biotechnology lab,
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R. China
Regulation of taxol biosynthesis in Taxus chinensis cells
PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed
1.
Cheng P , Holdsworth W, Ma Y, Coyne CJ, Mazourek M, Grusak MA, Fuchs S, McGee RJ (2014)
Phylogenetic analysis and association mapping for agronomic and quality traits in USDA Pea
Single-Plant collection. Molecular Breeding. Accepted with revision
2.
Cheng P , Chen XM (2014) Molecular mapping of Yr64 and Yr65 for stripe rust resistance in durum wheat germplasm accessions PI 331260 and PI 480016. Theoretical and Applied Genetics.
127:
2267-2277
3.
Cheng P , Chen XM (2014) Virulence and genetic diversity and reproduction mode of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Phytopathology . http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-11-13-0314-R
4.
Cheng P , Chen XM, Xu LS, See DR (2012) Development and characterization of expressed sequence tag-derived microsatellite markers for the wheat stripe rust fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici . Molecular Ecology Resources 12:779-781
5.
Cheng P , Chen XM (2010) Molecular mapping of a gene for stripe rust resistance in spring wheat cultivar IDO377s. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 121:195-204
6.
Cheng P , Chen XM, McIntosh RA, See DR (2014) Somatic hybridization in stripe rust fungus
( Puccinia striiformis ) from grasses revealed by virulence patterns and microsatellite markers.
Submitted to Phytopathology .
7.
Gupta DS, Cheng P (co-first author), Sablock G, Thavarajah D, Thavarajah P, McGee R, Coyne CJ,
Main D, Kumar S (2014) A validated source panel of SSR markers for effective discrimination of lentil species. BMC Genomics . In prep.
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8.
Holdsworth W, Cheng P , McGee RJ, Coyne CJ, Gore M, and Mazourek M (2014)
Genotyping-by-Sequencing yields SNPs at high density for characterization of genetic diversity and trait mapping in pea. PLoS ONE .
In prep .
9.
Cheng JJ, Huang LL, Chen XM, Kang ZS, Wang MN, Wan AM, and Cheng P (2014)
Demonstration of somatic recombination through virulence and molecular characterization of experimental isolates of the stripe rust pathogen ( Puccinia striiformis ). Submitted to Mycosystema .
10.
Xu LS, Wang MN (co-first author), Cheng P , Kang ZS, Hulbert SH, Chen XM (2013) Molecular mapping of Yr53 , a new gene for stripe rust resistance in durum wheat accession PI 480148 and its transfer to common wheat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 126:523-533
11.
Wang MN, Chen XM, Xu LS, Cheng P , Bockelman HE (2012) Registration of 70 common spring wheat germplasm lines resistant to stripe rust. Journal of Plant Registrations 6:104-110
12.
Zhan GM, Chen XM, Kang ZS, Huang LL, Wang MN, Wan AM, Cheng P , Cao SQ, Jin SL (2012)
Comparative virulence phenotypes and molecular genotypes of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici , the wheat stripe rust pathogen in China and the United States. Fungal Biology 116:643-653
13.
Chen XM, Penman L, Wan AM, Cheng P (2010) Virulence races of Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici in 2006 and 2007 and development of wheat stripe rust and distributions, dynamics, and evolutionary relationships of races from 2000 to 2007 in the United States. Canadian Journal of
Plant Pathology 32:315-333
14.
Lan WZ, YU LJ, Cheng P , Li MY (2002) Improvement of cephalomanine production in Taxus
Chinensis cells by a combination of sucrose and methyl jasmonate. Biotechnology Letters 24:
1253-1255
Outreach Publications
Chen XM, Wang MN, Wan AM, Evans KC, Liu YM, Garner J, Sharma-Poudyal D, Cheng P , Cheng JJ,
Lu Y, and Hou L (2012) Control of rusts of wheat and barley in 2011. In: Abstracts of 2012 Dryland
Field Day Abstracts: Highlights of Research Progress, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences,
Washington State University, Technical Report 12-1 pp.33.
Chen XM, Wood DA, Wang MN, Wan AM, Liu YM, Sharma-Poudyal D, Cheng P , and Evans KC
(2010) Control of rusts of wheat and barley. Page 24 in: 2010 Dryland Field Day Abstracts: Highlights of Research Progress. Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University Technical
Report 10-2.
Chen XM, Wood DA, Wang MN, Wan AM, Coram T, Liu YM, Sharma-Poudyal D, Cheng P , Zhao J,
Zhan GM, Sui XX, Liu B, Huang XL, Li Q, Ma JB, and Tabaccum S (2009) Epidemiology and control of rusts of wheat and barley. Page 30 in: 2009 Field Day Abstracts: Highlights of Research Progress.
Washington State University Extension.
Chen XM, Wood DA, Coram TE, Wang MN, Wan AM, Liu YM, Richardson K, Lin F, Zhao J, Cheng P ,
Zhan GM, Sui XX, Sharma-Poudyal D (2008) Control of stripe rusts of wheat and barley. Page 38 in:
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2008 Dryland Field Day Abstracts: Highlights of Research Progress. Department of Crop and Soil
Sciences, Technique Report 08-1. Online: http://css.wsu.edu/Proceedings/2008/2008_Field_Day_Abstracts.pdf
.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Peng Cheng, William Holdsworth, Yu Ma, Michael Mazourek, Michael Grusak, Clarice J Coyne, and
Rebecca J McGee. Phylogenetic analysis and association mapping for agronomic and quality traits in
USDA pea PSP collection. (Abstract id# 131-O). Oral Technical Session: Disease Control and Pest
Management. 2014 APS-CPS Joint Meeting, August 9-13, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
William Holdsworth, Peng Cheng , Rebecca McGee, Clarice Coyne, Michael Gore, and Michael
Mazourek. Genotyping by Sequencing of the Pea PSP Collection. (Abstract id# W374). Plant & Animal
Genome XXII, January 10-15, 2014 San Diego, CA
Peng Cheng , Michael Mazourek, Clarice J. Coyne, and Rebecca J McGee. Genetic diversity and association mapping for quality traits in the USDA pea core collection. (Abstract id# O-02). NAPIA
2013. October 30- November 01, 2013. Portland, OR
William Holdsworth, Peng Cheng , Rebecca McGee, Clarice Coyne, Michael Gore, and Michael
Mazourek. High throughput genotyping of the USDA pea core collection. (Abstract id# O-09S). NAPIA
2013. October 30- November 01, 2013. Portland, OR
Peng Cheng , Rebecca J McGee, and Clarice J. Coyne. Phenotypic Diversity and Association Mapping for Pea Quality Traits in Landrace Pea and Related Species. (Abstract id# 78209) Professional Oral
Presentation. Annual Meeting Western Society of Crop Science. June 11-12, 2013. Pendleton, OR
Peng Cheng , Liangsheng Xu, and Xianming Chen. Development and use of EST-SSR markers for studying Puccinia striiformis populations and molecular mapping of new genes for effective resistance to stripe rust in durum wheat. Oral presentation on Western Society of Crop Science, Western Wheat
Workers and the Western Education/Extension Research Activities (WERA97) Joint Annual Meetings.
July 11-13, 2012. Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Peng Cheng , Xianming Chen, and Deven See. Virulence and SSR markers revealed only asexual reproduction in the Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici population of the US Pacific Northwest. Poster.
American Phytopathology Society Annual Meetings, August 4-8, 2012. Providence, RI
Peng Cheng , Liangsheng Xu, and Xianming Chen. Development and Characterization of EST-Derived
Microsatellite Markers for the Wheat Stripe Rust Fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. Tritici . Poster on
American Phytopathology Society Annual Meetings, August 6-10, 2011. Honolulu, HI
Peng Cheng and Xianming Chen. Somatic Hybridization in Puccinia striiformis Revealed by
Virulence Patterns and Microsatellite Markers. Oral presentation and poster on the William R. Wiley
Research Exposition. November 10, 2009. Washington State University. Pullman, WA
Xu LS, Cheng P , Wang MN, Kang ZS, Hulbert S, Chen XM (2009) Molecular mapping of a new gene for resistance to stripe rust in durum wheat PI 480148 and transfer the gene into common wheat. Page
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67 in Abstracts of the Fourth Regional Yellow Rust Conference for Central and West Asia and North
Africa.10-12 October, 2009. Antalya, Turkey. Also in page 52 in Abstract Book of the 12th International
Cereal Rusts and Powdery Mildews Conference, October 13-16, 2009, Antalya, Turkey.
Chen XM, Penman L, Wan AM, and Cheng P (2009) Race changes of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici and P . striiformis f. sp. hordei in the United State. Page 27 in Abstract Book of the 12th International
Cereal Rusts and Powdery Mildews Conference, October 13-16, 2009, Antalya, Turkey. Also in Page 12 in Abstracts of the Fourth Regional Yellow Rust Conference for Central and West Asia and North Africa.
10-12 October, 2009. Antalya, Turkey.
Chen XM, Penman L, Wan AM, and Cheng P (2009) Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici race changes in the United States. Page 6 in Poster Abstracts of Borlaug Global Rust Initiative 2009 Technical
Workshop, March 17-20, 2009, Cd. Obregon, Sonora, Mexico.
Peng Cheng and Xianming Chen. Somatic hybridization in Puccinia striiformis revealed by virulence patterns and microsatellite markers. Oral presentation on American Phytopathology Society Annual
Meetings, August 1-5, 2009. Portland, OR
Peng Cheng and Xianming Chen. Molecular Mapping of a Gene for Resistance to Stripe Rust in Spring
Wheat Cultivar IDO377s. Poster on American Phytopathology Society Annual Meetings, July 26-30,
2008. Minneapolis, MN
Peng Cheng and Xianming Chen. Molecular Mapping of a Gene for Resistance to Stripe Rust in Spring
Wheat Cultivar IDO377s. Oral presentation and poster on the Biennial Plant Pathology Statewide
Faculty Meeting and Research Exposition. June 18-19, 2008. Richland, WA
AWARDS
2011 WSU Travel Award to attend the American Phytopathological Society meeting in Honolulu,
Hawaii
2008 The second prize in the Graduate Student Poster Competition at the Biennial Plant
Pathology Statewide Faculty Meeting and Research Exposition in Richland, WA
RESEARCH COLLABARATIONS
2014 Post-doctoral collaborator with Dr. Gail Timmerman-Vaughan, Plant and Food Research,
New Zealand. Determine significant marker trait association in USDA PSP collection
2014 Post-doctoral collaborator with Dr.
Jim Weller, University of Tasmania, Australia.
Photoperiod response and flowering in lentil.
2014 Post-doctoral collaborator with Dr. Michael A. Grusak, USDA-ARS Children's Nutrition
Research Center. Genetic diversity and association mapping for agronomic and quality traits in USDA pea core collection.
2014 Post-doctoral collaborator with Dr. Dorrie Main, Department of Horticulture and
Landscape, Washington State University. GBS Bioinformatics.
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2013-2014 Post-doctoral collaborator with Dr. Michael Mazourek, Cornell University. Genotyping by
Sequencing of the Pea Single Plant collection.
2014 Post-doctoral collaborator with Dr. Petr Smýkal, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech
Republic. Phylogenetic study of Pisum and its subspecies.
2013 Post-doctoral collaborator with Dr. Faruk Toklu, Cukurova University, Turkey. Molecular study with pea and lentil population.
2013 Post-doctoral collaborator with Dr.
Dilrukshi Thavarajah, North Dakota State University. A validated source panel of SSR markers for effective discrimination of lentil species.
2012-2014 Post-doctoral collaborator with Dr. Clarice Coyne, WSU. Genetic diversity and association mapping for quality traits in the USDA pea core collection.
2013 Post-doctoral collaborator with Dr. Jess Poland, Kansas State University. Genotyping by
Sequencing library preparation on lentil population.
2007-2012 Graduate student collaborator with a number of visiting students and scholars of Dr.
Zhensheng Kang, Northwest Agricultural & Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
Stripe rust resistance genes mapping.
2008 Graduate student collaborator with Dr. Xinxia Sui, Shandong Agricultural University,
Taian, Shandong, China. Stripe rust resistance gene Yr44 from Zak.
SPECIALIZED TRAINING
2014 APS Workshop: Analysis of Population Genetics in R in Minneapolis, MN August
2014 Using Stacks and UNEAK pipelines to analyze and call SNPs from
Genotyping-By-Sequencing raw data at Mazourek’s lab, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
May
2014 R statistics workshop in FSNB 354 in Pullman July
2014 Graduate Grant Writing Workshop in CUE 202 in Pullman April 5.
2013 Genotyping by Sequencing (GBS) workshop at Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. June 17-18
2012 Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) Planning Workshop Snap Pea: Enhanced production of nutrient-dense vegetable legumes.
Lewis Alumni Centre, Pullman, WA.
September 17-19
2012 Graduate Teaching Workshop in CUE 203 (Center for Undergraduate Education Building) in Pullman January 14.
2012 Graduate Grant Writing Workshop in CUE 202 in Pullman March 31.
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2011 Introductory Grant Writing Workshop in CUE 202 in Pullman April 1-2.
2010 Introductory Grant Writing Workshop in CUE 202 in Pullman April 2-3.
2010 Teaching Workshop presented in CUE 202 by the WSU President’s Teaching Academy on
January 16.
2009 Get that Paper to Press Workshop in CUE 512 in Pullman October 15.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2009 Teaching assistant for lab of General Plant Pathology (PLP429) under supervision of Dr.
Tobin Peever and Dr. Brenda Schroeder in Fall, Washington State University
LEADERSHIP POSITIONS
2006-2007 President of Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
2014 Legume disease session moderator: 2014 APS - CPS Annual Meeting
APS Early Career Professionals Committee
APS Host Resistance Committee
APS Molecular and Cellular Phytopathology Committee
REVIEWER FOR SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS
2014 BMC Genetics (IF: 2.36)
European Journal of Plant Pathology (IF: 1.707)
Plant Genetic Resources (IF: 1.057)
Journal of Plant Pathology & Microbiology (IF: 1.2)
Theoretical and Applied Genetics (IF: 3.507)
European Journal of Plant Pathology (IF: 1.707)
PLoS ONE (IF: 3.73)
African Journal of Microbiology Research (IF: 0.54)
Journal of Plant Interactions (IF: 0.865)
2013 Journal of Plant Interactions (IF: 0.865)
2012 Crop Protection (IF: 1.539)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
North American Pulse Improvement Association (NAPIA)
American Phytopathological Society (APS) and APS Pacific Division
Crop Science Society of America (CSSA)
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