Dr. Zhiyong Wang

Biography

Dr. Wang is the acting director of the Department of Plant Biology at the Carnegie Institution for Science and holds a courtesy position as a professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University. He is currently an associate editor for Molecular Cellular Proteomics and serves on the editorial board of Molecular Plant. A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he is a recipient of the Humboldt Research Prize. Dr. Wang earned his Ph.D. in 1998 from UCLA, where he cloned the plant circadian clock gene CCA1. His postdoctoral research at the Salk Institute focused on the brassinosteroid signaling mechanism mediated by the BRI1 receptor kinase. Since joining Carnegie in 2001, his research has illustrated how the receptor kinase signaling pathway connects the BRI1 receptor kinase with the BZR1 transcription factor and brassinosteroid-responsive genes in the Arabidopsis genome. Dr. Wang further demonstrated how steroid signaling pathways integrate various molecular hormonal pathways, light signaling pathways, nutrient-sensing pathways, immunity pathways, and the circadian clock to coordinately regulate plant growth and development. His lab employs genomic and proteomic approaches to understand the cellular signals transduced by integrated posttranslational modifications and protein-protein interactions, with studies illuminating the molecular mechanisms that control plant growth and responses to environmental changes.

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