
Zhiyong Wang
- Acting Director, Senior Staff Scientist
- Department of Plant Biology
- Carnegie Institution for Science
- 260 Panama Street
- Stanford, CA 94305
- Phone: (650) 739-4205
- Fax: (650) 325-6857
- Email: zwang@carnegiescience.edu
Publications | People
Lab Tabs
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Efren Gonzalez (Research Assistant)
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Qufei Gu (Postdoctoral Research Scientist)
I am from Suzhou (Soochow), China. I received the B.S. degree in Physics from Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, in 2011, the M.S. degree in Physics from University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States, in 2014, the Ph.D. degree in Biological Engineering & Small-Scale Technologies from University of California, Merced, United States in 2019. I am interested in the development of single-molecule tool in exploring DNA-protein interactions. In my spare time, I play basketball, soccer and crabbings.
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Sumudu Karunadasa (Postdoctoral Fellow)
I received my B.Sc. degree in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka. I graduated from University of Kentucky, USA in Plant Molecular Biology. I am interested in discovering plant molecular mechanisms.
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Frej Tulin (Postdoctoral Fellow)
I am interested in how plants coordinate cell growth and division. Brassinosteroid (BR) hormones are known for their growth-promoting activity, but also help regulate cell division in certain tissues. I am exploring mechanistic links between BR signaling and cell division, using Arabidopsis and the alga Chlamydomonas as models.
I received a M.S. from KTH in Stockholm, Sweden, and a Ph.D. from the Rockefeller University. I like running and ping pong.
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Zhenzhen Zhang (Postdoctoral Fellow)
I am interested in mechanisms of plant growth regulated by sugar and brassinosteroid signaling.
Former Lab Members and Current Affiliation
Postdoc/Graduate Students:
- Joshua Gendron, Assistant Professor, Yale University, USA
- Ying Sun, Professor, Hebei Normal University, China
- Soo-Hwan Kim, Professor, Yonsei University, Korea
- Junxian He, Assistant Professor, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Srinivas Gampala, Dow Agrosciences, USA
- Wenqiang Tang, Professor, Hebei Normal University, China
- Yu Sun, Professor, Hebei Normal University, China
- Zhiping Deng, Group leader, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
- Tae-Wuk Kim, Associate Professor, Hanyang U. Korea
- Wenhui Lin, Research Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
- Eunkyoo Oh, Korea University, Korea
- Shouling Xu, Director of Proteomics at the Carnegie Institution for Science
- Wenfei Wang, Professor, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
- Xuelian Yang, Associate Professor, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
- Sunita Patil, Lab Manager, Stanford University
- Juthamas Chaiwanon, Assistant Professor, Chulalongkorn U., Thailand
- Mingyi Bai, Professor, Shandong University, China
- Min Fan, Assistant Professor, Shandong University, China
- Chih-Wei Chien, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Taiwan
- Thomas Hartwig, Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
- Gisele Passaia, Scientist, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Shouling Xu, Director of Proteomics Facility, Carnegie Institution for Science, USA
- Chan Ho Park, Chief Scientific Officer, Soilcea, Florida
- Veder Garcia, Seer, Inc, California
- Kanako Bessho-Uehara, Assistant Professor, Tohoku University, Japan
- Chuan-Chih Hsu, Research Specialist, Institute of Plant and Microbile Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Visiting Scholars/Students:
- Ulrich Kutschera, Chair and Professor, University of Kassel, Germany (2007-)
- Ruiju Wang, Postdoc, Hebei Normal U. China (2007-2009)
- Yaqi Hao, Research Associate, Shannxi Normal U. China (2008-2011)
- Jianxiu Shang, Research Associate, Hebei Normal U. China (2009-2011)
- Hongjuan Yang, Graduate program director, Institute of Botany, CAS (2009-2010)
- Rafael Augusto, Federal Univers. Rio Grande do Sul. Brazil (2010-2011)
- Hak-Soo Lee, Student, Yonsei U. Korea
- Yang Bai, Student, Northeast U. China
- Shuolei Bu, Graduate Student. China
- Jiangshu Liu, Postdoc, U. Toronto, Canada
- Min Yuan, Assistant Professor, Hebei Sci Tech U. China
- Tian Li, Lecturer, Lanzhou U. China
- Peng Xu, Postdoc, UCSF
- Hui Yang, Professor and Director, Lanzhou Institute of Biology, China
- Zhiguang Zhao, Professor, Lanzhou University, China
- Tonglin Mao, Professor, China Agriculture U.
- Shengwei Zhu, Group Leader, Institute of Botany, CAS, China
- Yunyuan Xu, Professor and Group Leader, Institute of Botany, CAS, China
- Chuangqi Wei, Hebei Normal University, China
- Lauro Bücker Neto, Federal Univers. Rio Grande do Sul. Brazil
- Shumin Wang, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Shengwei Zhang, Visiting scholar, Hebei Normal University, China
- Man Ao, The Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, China
- Nathaphan Aursuwanna, Chulalongkorn Unversity., Thailand
- Yingying Cao, Danforth Center
- Benjamin Al, Technical University of Munich
- Erika Frydrych, Visiting Graduate Student, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
- Ning Li, Professor, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
- Tae-Wuk, Kim, Professor, Hanyang University, Korea
- Marcia Margis-Pinheiro, Professor, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Undergraduate or high school students (send Zhiyong your contact if your name is missing):
- Nathan Gendron
- Chad Tang, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Timothy Chang, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine
- Allen Tang
- Asif Haque, Associate Director, Quality Assurance at Denali Therapeutics
- Catherine Qing Sun, UCSF Medical School;
- Jasmine Chen, UC Berkeley School of Optometry
- Joyce Xue, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
- Jemma Taylor, University of Warwick, UK
- Nathan Hsu, Cooper & Dunham LLP
- Emily Luise Hulme, University of Melbourne
- Andrew Ma, Cal Tech;
- Daniel Li, Fellow, Stanford Medical School.
- Dasha Savage, Stanford Medical School
- Tina Wang, USC
- Nicole Xu, UC Berkeley
- Matthew Webb
- Maia Granoski
- Sola Takahashi, UC San Diego
Selected Publications
(see full publication list at: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DSbbGNIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao)
Major Reviews:
Chaiwanon J, Wang W, Zhu JY, Oh E, Wang ZY. (2016) Information Integration and Communication in Plant Growth Regulation. Cell 164(6):1257-68.
Wang W, Bai MY, Wang ZY.(2014). The brassinosteroid signaling network – a paradigm of signal integration. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 21:147–153.
Zhu JY, Sae-Seaw J, Wang ZY (2013). Brassinosteroid signalling. Development 140, 1615-1620.
Wang ZY, Bai MY, Oh E, Zhu JY (2012). Brassinosteroid signaling network and regulation of photomorphogenesis. Annu. Rev. Genet. 46:701-724.
Kim TW and Wang ZY. (2010) Brassinosteroid signal transduction from receptor kinases to transcription factors. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 61, 681-704.
Research articles
Yang Bi, Zhiping Deng, Weimin Ni, Zhenzhen Zhang, Dasha Savage, Thomas Hartwig, Sunita Patil, Juan A. Oses-Prieto, Kathy H. Li, Peter H Quail, Alma L Burlingame, Shou-Ling Xu, and Zhi-Yong Wang (2021). Arabidopsis ACINUS is O-glycosylated and regulates transcription and alternative splicing of regulators of reproductive transitions. Nature Communication.
Garcia VJ, Xu SL, Ravikumar R, Wang W, Elliott L, Fesenko M, Altmann M, Falter-Braun P, Moore I, Assaad F, Wang ZY. (2020) TRIPP Is a Plant-specific Component of the Arabidopsis TRAPPII Membrane Trafficking Complex with Important Roles in Plant Development. Plant Cell. May 5:tpc.00044.2020. doi: 10.1105/tpc.20.00044. PMID: 32371545
Park CH, Youn JH, Xu SL, Kim JG, Bi Y, Xu N, Mudgett MB, Kim SK, Kim TW, & Wang ZY. (2019) BSU1 family phosphatases mediate Flagellin-FLS2 signaling through a specific phosphocode. BioRxiv doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/685610.
Kim TW, Park CH, Hsu CC, Zhu JY, Hsiao Y, Branon T, Xu SL, Ting AY, and Wang ZY. (2019) Application of TurboID-mediated proximity labeling for mapping a GSK3 kinase signaling network in Arabidopsis. BioRxiv, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/636324.
Sun L, Feraru E, Feraru MI, Waidmann S, Wang W, Passaia G, Wang ZY, Wabnik K, Kleine-Vehn J. (2020). PIN-LIKES Coordinate Brassinosteroid Signaling with Nuclear Auxin Input in Arabidopsis thaliana. Curr Biol. 30(9):1579-1588.e6. PMID: 32169207
Guo Z, Zhang Z, Yang X, Yin K, Chen Y, Zhang Z, Shin K, Zhu Q, Wang ZY, Wang W. (2020). PSBR1, encoding a mitochondrial protein, is regulated by brassinosteroid in moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis). Plant Mol Biol. 103(1-2):63-74. PMID: 32040757
Zhang X, Wu J, Yu Q, Liu R, Wang ZY, Sun Y. (2020). AtOFPs Regulate Cell Elongation by Modulating Microtubule Orientation via Direct Interaction with TONNEAU2. Plant Sci. 292:110405. PMID: 32005401
Zhao JL, Zhang LQ, Liu N, Xu SL, Yue ZL, Zhang LL, Deng ZP, Burlingame AL, Sun DY, Wang ZY, Sun Y, Zhang SW (2019). Mutual Regulation of Receptor-Like Kinase SIT1 and B'κ-PP2A Shapes the Early Response of Rice to Salt Stress. Plant Cell. 31(9):2131-2151. doi: 10.1105/tpc.18.00706. PMID: 31221736
Kim EJ, Lee SH, Park CH, Kim SH, Hsu CC, Xu S, Wang ZY, Kim SK, Kim TW. (2019). Plant U-Box40 Mediates Degradation of the Brassinosteroid-Responsive Transcription Factor BZR1 in Arabidopsis Roots. Plant Cell 31(4):791-808. doi: 10.1105/tpc.18.00941
Song L, Chen W, Wang B, Yao QM, Valliyodan B, Bai MY, Zhao MZ, Ye H, Wang ZY, Nguyen HT. (2019) GmBZL3 acts as a major BR signaling regulator through crosstalk with multiple pathways in Glycine max. BMC Plant Biol 19:86. doi: 10.1186/s12870-019-1677-2.
Tian Y, Fan M, Qin Z, Lv H, Wang M, Zhang Z, Zhou W, Zhao N, Li X, Han C, Ding Z, Wang W, Wang ZY, Bai MY. (2018). Hydrogen peroxide positively regulates brassinosteroid signaling through oxidation of the BRASSINAZOLE-RESISTANT1 transcription factor. Nat Communication14;9(1):1063.
Zhu J-Y, Li Y, Cao D, Yang H, Oh E, Bi Y, Zhu S, Wang Z-Y (2017) The F-box protein KIB1 mediates brassinosteroid-induced inactivation and degradation of GSK3-like kinases in Arabidopsis. Mol Cell 66(5):648-657.
Ni W, Xu SL, González-Grandío E, Chalkley RJ, Huhmer AFR, Burlingame AL, Wang ZY, Quail PH. (2017) PPKs mediate direct signal transfer from phytochrome photoreceptors to transcription factor PIF3. Nat Communication8:15236.
Xu SL, Chalkley RJ, Maynard JC, Wang W, Ni W, Jiang X, Shin K, Cheng L, Savage D, Hühmer AFR, Burlingame AL, Wang Z-Y. (2017) Proteomic Analysis Reveals O-GlcNAc Modification on Proteins with Key Regulatory Functions in Arabidopsis. PNAS 114(8):E1536-E1543.
Bu SL, Liu C, Liu N, Zhao JL, Ai LF, Chi H, Li KL, Chien CW, Burlingame AL, Zhang SW, Wang ZY (2017)Immunopurification and Mass Spectrometry Identifies Protein Phosphatase 2A (PP2A) and BIN2/GSK3 as Regulators of AKS Transcription Factors in Arabidopsis. Mol Plant. 10(2):345-348.
Zhu JY, Oh E, Wang T, Wang ZY. (2016) TOC1-PIF4 interaction mediates the circadian gating of thermoresponsive growth in Arabidopsis. Nat Communication 7:13692.
Zhang Z, Zhu JY, Roh J, Marchive C, Kim SK, Meyer C, Sun Y, Wang W, Wang ZY. (2016). TOR Signaling Promotes Accumulation of BZR1 to Balance Growth with Carbon Availability in Arabidopsis. Curr Biol. 26:1854-60.
Li C, Gu L, Gao L, Chen C, Wei CQ, Qiu Q, Chien CW, Wang S, Jiang L, Ai LF, Chen CY, Yang S, Nguyen V, Qi Y, Snyder MP, Burlingame AL, Kohalmi SE, Huang S, Cao X, Wang ZY, Wu K, Chen X, Cui Y. (2016) Concerted genomic targeting of H3K27 demethylase REF6 and chromatin-remodeling ATPase BRM in Arabidopsis. Nat Genet. 2016 Jun;48(6):687-93.
Chaiwanon J and Wang ZY. (2015) Spatiotemporal brassinosteroid signaling and antagonism with auxin pattern stem cell dynamics in Arabidopsis roots. Current Biology 25(8):1031-42.
Ni WM, Xu SL, Tepperman JM, Stanley DJ, Maltby DA, Gross JD, Burlingame AL, Wang ZY and Quail PH(2014). A mutually assured destruction mechanism attenuates light signaling in Arabidopsis. Science 344, 1160-1164.
Oh E, Zhu JY, Bai MY, and Wang ZY. (2014). A central transcription module regulates cell elongation and development by integrating major environmental and hormonal signals in Arabidopsis. eLife:e03031.
Oh E, Zhu JY, Ryu H, Hwang I, Wang ZY. (2014). TOPLESS mediates brassinosteroid-induced transcriptional repression through interaction with BZR1. Nature Communications18;5:4140.
Fan M, Bai MY, Kim JG, Wang T, Oh E, Chen L, Park CH, Son SH, Kim SK, Mudgett MB, Wang ZY. (2014). The bHLH transcription factor HBI1 mediates the trade-off between growth and pathogen-associated molecular pattern-triggered immunity in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 26, 828-841.
Gendron JM, Liu JS, Fan M, Bai MY, Wenkel S, Springer PS, Barton MK, Wang ZY (2012). Brassinosteroids regulate organ boundary formation in the shoot apical meristem of Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109, 21152-21157.
Bai MY, Fan M, Oh E, Wang ZY(2012) A triple-HLH/bHLH Cascade Controls Cell Elongation Downstream of Multiple Hormonal and Environmental Signaling Pathways in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 24:4917-4929
Oh E, Zhu JY, Wang ZY. (2012). Interaction between BZR1 and PIF4 integrates brassinosteroid and environmental responses. Nature Cell Biol.14, 802-809.
Bai MY, Shang JX, Oh E, Fan M, Bai Y, Zentella R, Sun TP, Wang ZY. (2012). Brassinosteroid, gibberellin, and phytochrome impinge on a common transcription module in Arabidopsis. Nature Cell Biol.14, 810-819.
Kim TW, Michniewicz M, Bergmann DC, Wang ZY. (2012). Brassinosteroid regulates stomatal development by GSK3-mediated inhibition of a MAPK pathway. Nature 482, 419-422.
Hao Y, Oh E, Choi G, Liang Z, Wang ZY. (2012). Interactions between HLH and bHLH Factors Modulate Light-Regulated Plant Development. Mol. Plant 5, 688-697.
Kim TW, Guan S, Burlingame AL, Wang ZY. (2011). The CDG1 Kinase Mediates Brassinosteroid Signal Transduction from BRI1 Receptor Kinase to BSU1 Phosphatase and GSK3-like Kinase BIN2. Mol. Cell 43, 561-571.PMCID: PMC3206214
Tang W, Yuan M, Wang R, Yang Y, Wang C, Oses-Prieto JA, Kim TW, Zhou HW, Deng Z, Gampala SS, Gendron JM, Jonassen EM, Lillo C, DeLong A, Burlingame AL, Sun Y, Wang ZY. (2011). PP2A activates brassinosteroid-responsive gene expression and plant growth by dephosphorylating BZR1. Nature Cell Biol.13:124-131. PMCID: PMC3077550
Sun Y, Fan XY, Cao DM, Tang W, He K, Zhu JY, He JX, Bai MY, Zhu S, Oh E, Patil S, Kim TW, Ji H, Wong WH, Rhee SY, Wang ZY. (2010). Integration of brassinosteroid signal transduction with the transcription network for plant growth regulation in Arabidopsis. Dev. Cell 19, 756-777. PMCID: PMC3018842.
Luo XM, Lin WH, Zhu S, Zhu JY, Sun Y, Fan XY, Cheng M, Hao Y, Oh E, Tian M, Liu L, Zhang M, Xie Q, Chong K, Wang ZY. (2010). Integration of light- and brassinosteroid-signaling pathways by a GATA transcription factor in Arabidopsis. Dev Cell 19: 872-883.
Kim TW, Guan S, Sun Y, Deng Z, Tang W, Shang JX, Sun Y, Burlingame AL, Wang ZY. (2009) Brassinosteroid signal transduction from cell-surface receptor kinases to nuclear transcription factors. Nature Cell Biol. 11, 1254-1262.
Tang W, Kim TW, Oses-PrietoJA,Sun Y, Deng Z, Zhu S, Wang R, Burlingame AL, Wang ZY (2008). BSKs mediate signal transduction from the receptor kinase BRI1 in Arabidopsis. Science 321, 557-560.
Gampala SS, Kim TW, He JX, Tang W, Deng Z, Bai MY, Guan S, Lalonde S, Sun Y, Gendron JM, Chen H, Shibagaki N, Ferl RJ, Ehrhardt D, Chong K, Burlingame AL, Wang ZY. (2007). An essential role for 14-3-3 proteins in brassinosteroid signal transduction in Arabidopsis.Dev. Cell 13, 177-189.
Bai MY, Zhang LY, Gampala SS, Zhu SW, Song WY, Chong K, Wang ZY. (2007). Functions of OsBZR1 and 14-3-3 proteins in brassinosteroid signaling in rice. Proc.Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104, 13939-13844.
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If you are interested in joining us, please send email to zywang24@stanford.edu.
Potential research projects:
1. Proteomic and functional study of O-GlcNAc and O-fucose modififications.
2. Signaling and regulation of vesicle trafficking.
3. Signaling and regulation of cytokinesis.
4. Signaling and regulation of protein translaiton.
5. Modeling and engineering of signaling neworks - logics of information integration and decision making.