Application Form for Reviewer Part I: Basic Information Beginning date of review work 2009 How many reviews would you be able to do per month? Three How much time do you need in order Two to Three weeks to schedule and complete a review? Subject areas you are interested in Molecular Plant-Microbe Interaction, Plant Molecular Biology, Plant Science. Part II: Information about Applicant Family Name Chen Given Name(s) Xuewei Gender Male Country China Position or Title Professor/ Doctor Organizational Affiliation Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University 1st E-mail xwchen88@163.com 2nd xwchen@sicau.edu.cn E-mail Postal Address 211 Huimin Road, Wenjiang District, Chengdu, Sichuan 611130, China Working Experience June, 2011-present, Professor in Sichuan Agricultural University at Chengdu, China June, 2009- June, 2011, Assistant Project Scientist in University of California at Davis April, 2005-May, 2009, Postdoctoral Research Associate in University of California at Davis June, 2004-April, 2005, Postdoctoral Research Associate in University of California at Irvine July, 2003-May, 2004, Assistant Researcher in the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 1 Conference Presence Experience Education 2012. 10 National Congress of Plant Biology in China (2012) 2012. 07 Plant Biology 2012 2012. 07 The 2012 Annual Congress of Chinese Society of Plant Pathology 2011.11 The 2nd International Conference on Biotic Plant Interactions, 2011.10 The 2011 Annual Congress of the Crop Science Society of China 2010.08 The 2011 Annual Congress of Chinese Society of Plant Pathology 2010.03 Receptors and Signaling in Plant Development and Biotic Interactions (C2) 2009.08 The Ninth International Plant Molecular Biology Congress 2009.07 .Identification and biological function characterzation on glycosyltransferase genes in rice , Synthetic Biology Workshop 1997 B.S. Department of Horticulture,Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, P.R. China 2000 M.S. Department of Genetics and Breeding, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan, P.R. China 2003 Ph.D. Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China of Membership of America Society Plant Biologist (ASPB) Membership Institutions, Associations and Reviewer, Editorial Board Membership of Genetic Society of China (GSC) Publications 1 Xuewei Chen, Shimin Zuo, Benjamin Schwessinger, Mawsheng Chern, Patrick E. Canlas, Deling Ruan, Pamela C. Ronald The XA21-Associated Kinase 1 (OsSERK2) regulates immunity mediated by the XA21 and XA3 immune receptors. (PLoS Genetics, under review). 2 Xuewei Chen, Miguel E. Vega-Sánchez, Yves Verhertbruggen, Dawn Chiniquy, Patrick E. Canlas, Alexandra Fagerström, Lina Prak, Ulla Christensen, Ai Oikawa, Mawsheng Chen, Shimin Zuo, Fan Lin, Manfred Auer, William G.T. Willats, Laura Bartley, Jesper Harholt, Henrik V. Scheller, and Pamela C. Ronald. Inactivation of OsIRX10 leads to decreased xylan content in ricestem cell walls and improved biomass saccharification. (Molecular Plant, under review). 2 3 Xuewei Chen and Pamela C. Ronald. 2011, Innate immunity in rice. Trends in Plant Science.16:451-459. 4 Xuewei Chen, Mawsheng Chern, Patric E. Canlas, Deling Ruan, Caiying Jiang, Pamela C. Ronald. 2010, The rice XB24 ATPase promotes autophosphorylation of XA21 and inhibits XA21-mediated immunity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Track II).107:8029-8034. 5 Xuewei Chen, Mawsheng Chern, Patric E. Canlas, Deling Ruan, Caiying Jiang, Pamela C. Ronald A conserved threonine residue in the juxtamembrane domain of the XA21 pattern recognition receptor is critical for kinase autophosphorylation and XA21-mediated immunity. 2010, Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285: 10454-10463. 6 Junjun Shang, Yong Tao, Xuewei Chen (co-first author), Yan Zou, Cailin Lei, Jing Wang, Xiaobing Li, Xianfeng Zhao, Meijun Zhang, Zhike Lu, Jichen Xu, Zhukuan Cheng, Jianmin Wan, Lihuang Zhu. 2009, Identification of a new rice blast resistance gene, Pid3, by genome-wide comparison of paired NBS-LRR genes and their pseudogene alleles between the two sequenced rice genomes. Genetics, 182:1303-1311. 7 Xuewei Chen, Junjun Shang, Cailin Lei, Jichen Xu, Shigui Li, Lihuang Zhu. 2008. Genetic and Molecular Analyses of Blast Resistance in a Universal Blast Resistant Variety, Digu. G.-L. Wang, B. Valent (eds.) Advances in Genetics, Genomics and Control of Rice Blast Disease, 149-159. 8 Xuewei Chen, Junjun Shang, Dexi Chen, Cailin Lei, Yan Zou, Wenxue Zhai, Guozhen Liu, Jichen Xu, Zhongzhuan Ling, Gang Cao, Bingtian Ma, Yuping Wang, Xianfeng Zhao, Shigui Li, Lihuang Zhu. 2006, A B-lectin receptor kinase gene conferring rice blast resistance. The Plant Journal, 46 (5), 794–804. 9 Chang-Jin Park, Ying Peng, Xuewei Chen, Christopher Dardick, DeLing Ruan, Rebecca Bart, Patrick E. Canlas, Pamela C. Ronald. 2008, Rice XB15, a Protein Phosphatase 2C, Negatively Regulates Cell Death and XA21-Mediated Innate Immunity. PLoS Biology, 6(9) e231. 10 Chang-Jin Park, Sang-Wook Han, Xuewei Chen, and Pamela C. Ronald. 2010, Elucidation of XA21-mediated innate immunity. Cellular Microbiology, 12(8):1017-25. 11 CHEN De-xi, CHEN Xue-wei, MA Bing-tian, WANG Yu-ping, ZHU Li-huang, LI Shi-gui. 2010, Genetic Transformation of Rice with 3 Pi-d2 Gene Enhances Resistance to Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. Rice Science, 17(1) 12 Ying Peng, Laura E. Bartley, Xuewei Chen, Christopher Dardick, Mawsheng Chern, Randy Ruan, Patrick E. Canlas, Pamela C. Ronald. 2008, OsWRKY62 is a Negative Regulator of Basal and Xa21-Mediated Defense against Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae in Rice. Molecular Plant. 1: 446-458. 13 Lei Li, Xiangfeng Wang, Rajkumar Sasidharan, Viktor Stolc, Wei Deng, Hang He, Jan Korbel, Xuewei Chen, Waraporn Tongprasit, Pamela Ronald, Runsheng Chen, Mark Gerstein, Xing Wang Deng. 2007, Global Identification and Characterization of Transcriptionally Active Regions in the Rice Genome. PLoS ONE, 2(3): e294. 14 Young-Su Seo, Mawsheng Chern, Laura E. Bartley, Muho Han, Ki-Hong Jung,Insuk Lee, Harkamal Walia, Xia Xu, Peijian Cao, Wei Bai, Rajeshwari Ramanan,Fawn Amonpant, Loganathan Arul, Patrick E. Canlas, Randy Ruan, Chang-Jin Park,Xuewei Chen, Sohyun Hwang, Jong-Seong Jeon, and Pamela C. Ronald. 2011, Towards Establishment of a Rice Stress Response Interactome. PLoS Genet, (In Press). 15 X.W. Chen, S.G. Li, W.X. Zhai, J.C. Xu, Z.Z. Ling, W.M. Wang, X.B. Li, Y.P. Wang, G. Cao, J.J. Shang, Y.Q. Ma, K.D. Zhou, L.H. Zhu. 2004, Identification of Two Blast Resistance Genes in Rice Digu. Jounal of Phytopathology 152:77–85 16 Zheng X, Chen X, Zhang X, Lin Z, Shang J, Xu J, Zhai W, Zhu L.2004, Isolation and identification of a gene in response to rice blast disease in rice. Plant Molecular Biology, 54: 99–109 17 Wenxue Zhai, Caiyan Chen, Xuefeng Zhu, Xuewei Chen, Dechun Zhang, Xiaobing Li, Lihuang Zhu. 2004, Analysis of T-DNA- Xa21 loci and bacterial blight resistance effects of the transgene Xa21 in transgenic rice.Theoretic Applied Genetics.109: 534–542 18 ZHONG Yiming, JIANG Guanghuai, CHEN Xuewei, XIA Zhihui, LI Xiaobing ZHU Lihuang, ZHAI Wenxue Identification and gene prediction of a 24 kb region containing xa5, a recessive bacterial blight resistance gene in rice (Oryza sativa L.) 2003, Chinese Science Bulletin. 48(1), 2725-2729. 19 Yu, J., …, Chen,X., …., and Yang, H. 2002, A draft sequence of the rice genome (Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica).Science. 296, 79-92. 20 CHEN Xuewei, Li Shigui, WANG Wenming, Li Hanyun, ZHOU Kaida, ZHU Lihuang. 2001, Molecular tagging of a genic male-sterile 4 gene MS-P in rice. Chinese Science Bulletin. 46(1),66-69. (In English). 21 YU Jun, HU Songnian, -,CHEN Xuewei,-,YANG Huanming. 2001, A draft sequence of the rice (Oryza sativa ssp. indica) genome. Chinese Science Bulletin. 46:1937-1942. 22 W. Wang, W. Zhai, M. Luo, G. Jiang, X. Chen, X. Li, R. A. Wing, L. Zhu. 2001, Chromosome landing at the bacterial blight resistance gene Xa4 locus using a deep coverage rice BAC library., Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 265,118-125. 23 W.M. Wang, W.X. Zhai, G.H. Jiang, X.W. Chen, X.B. Li, L. H. Zhu. 2000, Construction of a BAC contig containing Xa4 locus on Chromosome 11., Rice Genetics Newsletter 17,74-76. 24 Wang Wenmin, ZHOU Yongli, JIANG Guanhuai, MA Bojun, CHEN Xuewei, ZHANG Qi, ZHU Lihuang, ZHAI Wenxue. Fine mapping of the rice bacterial blight resistance gene Xa-4 and its co-segregation marker. 2000, Chinese Science Bulletin. 45(19),1779-1782. (SCI: IF:0.68) 25 W.M. Wang, W.X. Zhai, G.H. Jiang, X.W. Chen, X.B. Li, L. H. Zhu. Construction of a BAC contig containing Xa4 locus on Chromosome 11. 2000, Rice Genetics Newsletter 17,74-76. 26 Xuewei Chen, Li Shigui, Wenming Wang, Hanyun Li, Kaida Zhou, Lihuang Zhu. Molecular mapping of a genic male-sterile gene in rice. 2000, Chinese Science Bulletin. 45(15), 1644-1648. (In Chinese). Additional Information Privacy All information you have given in this form will only be used for selecting reviewers for the journal. We guarantee this information will be not used for any other purpose. Declaration Submitting this form means that you guarantee the information you have given is truthful, complete and correct. The furnishing of false or misleading information on this form may result in criminal sanctions and/or civil sanctions. 5