Associate Professor

Email: zhoufei@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Tel: 027-87280550

Research Interest:

Plastid genetic engineering in rice

Plastid RNA Metabolism

Education:   

2004.9 - 2007.12 PhD. Degree of molecular plant physiology, Max-Planck Institute of Molecular plant physiology & Potsdam University, Germany

2000.9 - 2003.7 Master Degree of Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, China

1996.9 - 2000.7 Bachelor Degree of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, China

Professional Experiences:

20010.12-Present Huazhong Agricultural University, China, Associate Professor 

2008.01-2010.12 Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany, Post-doctoral Fellow

2003.09-2004.08 Medicine College, Muenster University, Germany, Assistant technician

Selected Publications:

1.        Huang, W., Zhang, Y., Shen, L., Fang, Q., Liu, Q., Gong, C., Zhang, C., Zhou, Y., Mao, C., Zhu, Y., Zhang, J., Chen, H., Zhang, Y., Lin, Y., Bock, R., & Zhou, F. Accumulation of the RNA polymerase subunit RpoB depends on RNA editing by OsPPR16 and affects chloroplast development during early leaf development in rice [published online ahead of print, 2020 Jun 24]. New Phytol. 2020;10.1111/nph.16769.

2.        Li, Y., Wang, R., Hu, Z., Li, H., Lu, S., Zhang, J., Lin, Y. & Zhou, F. Expression of a Codon-Optimized dsdA Gene in Tobacco Plastids and Rice Nucleus Confers D-Serine Tolerance. Frontiers in plant science. 7, 640 (2016).

3.        Yi, S. Y., Cui, Y., Zhao, Y., Liu, Z. D., Lin, Y. J. & Zhou, F. A Novel Naturally Occurring Class I 5-Enolpyruvylshikimate-3-Phosphate Synthase from Janibacter sp. Confers High Glyphosate Tolerance to Rice. Scientific reports. 6, 19104 (2016).

4.        Fuentes, P., Zhou, F., Erban, A., Karcher, D., Kopka, J. & Bock, R. A new synthetic biology approach allows transfer of an entire metabolic pathway from a medicinal plant to a biomass crop. eLife. 5,  (2016).

5.        Tie, W., Zhou, F., Wang, L., Xie, W., Chen, H., Li, X. & Lin, Y. Reasons for lower transformation efficiency in indica rice using Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation: lessons from transformation assays and genome-wide expression profiling. Plant molecular biology. 78, 1-18 (2012).

6.        Ye, R., Zhou, F. & Lin, Y. Two novel positive cis-regulatory elements involved in green tissue-specific promoter activity in rice (Oryza sativa L ssp.). Plant cell reports. 31, 1159-72 (2012).

7.        Elghabi, Z., Karcher, D., Zhou, F., Ruf, S. & Bock, R. Optimization of the expression of the HIV fusion inhibitor cyanovirin-N from the tobacco plastid genome. Plant biotechnology journal. 9, 599-608 (2011).

8.        Gonzalez-Rabade, N., Mcgowan, E. G., Zhou, F., Mccabe, M. S., Bock, R., Dix, P. J., Gray, J. C. & Ma, J. K. Immunogenicity of chloroplast-derived HIV-1 p24 and a p24-Nef fusion protein following subcutaneous and oral administration in mice. Plant biotechnology journal. 9, 629-38 (2011).

9.        Zhou, F., Badillo-Corona, J. A., Karcher, D., Gonzalez-Rabade, N., Piepenburg, K., Borchers, A. M., Maloney, A. P., Kavanagh, T. A., Gray, J. C. & Bock, R. High-level expression of human immunodeficiency virus antigens from the tobacco and tomato plastid genomes. Plant biotechnology journal. 6, 897-913 (2008).

10.    Zhou, F., Karcher, D. & Bock, R. Identification of a plastid intercistronic expression element (IEE) facilitating the expression of stable translatable monocistronic mRNAs from operons. The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology. 52, 961-72 (2007).