Lingjing Chen
Curriculum vitae
Ph.D. 1988, The Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China,
Lab Responcibiligy: Chemical safety
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY: American Society of Plant Biologists
Field of Interest: Plant embryology, shoot architecture, bioinformatics and systematics.
PATENT:
United States Patent #6,376,751. Approved date: April 23, 2002
Inventors: Sung, Z. Renee; Aubert, Dominique; Chen, Lingjing
Title: Nucleic acids encoding EMF1 that control reproductive development in plants
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Phylogenetic analysis of Arabidopsis PcG protein EMF2 (in preparation)
Z.R. Sung, L.-J. Chen, Y.-H. Moon, and N. Yoshida, 2003, Molecular Mechanism of Shoot Determinancy and Flowering in Arabidopsis, HortScience, Vol. 38, No. 7, 1325-1327.
Yong-Hwan Moon, Lingjing Chen, Rong Long Pan, Hur-Song Chang, Tong Zhu, Daniel M. Maffeo, and Z. Renee Sung, 2003, EMF Genes Maintain Vegetative Development by Repressing the Flower Program in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 15 (3): 681-693.
Z Renee Sung, Lingjing Chen, Yong-Hwan Moon and Kvin
Lertpiriyapong, 2003, Mechanisms of floral repression in Arabidopsis.
Current Opinion in Plant Biology 6 (1): 29-35.
Avsian-Kretchmer O, Cheng JC, Chen L, Moctezuma E, Sung ZR., 2002:
Indole acetic acid distribution coincides with vascular differentiation pattern during Arabidopsis leaf ontogeny. Plant Physiol.130(1):199-209.
Nobumasa Yoshida, Yukihiro Yanai, Lingjing Chen, Yoshihiro Kato, Junzo Hiratsuka, Tatsushi Miwa, Z. Renee Sung, and Shigeru Takahashi, 2001: EMBRYONIC FLOWER2, a Novel Polycomb Group Protein Homolog, Mediates Shoot Development in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 13(11): 2471-81.
Dominique Aubert, Lingjing Chen, Yong-Hwan Moon, David Martin,
Linda A. Castle, Chang-Hsien Yang, and Zinmay R. Sung, 2001: EMF1, A Novel Protein Involved in the Control of Shoot Architecture and Flowering in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 13(8): 1865-75.
Bai S, Chen L, Yund MA, Sung ZR., 2000: Mechanisms of plant embryo development. Curr. Top. Dev. Biol.,50: 61-88.
LAB EXPERIENCE
In the lab, I have been working on characterization and cloning of the intriguing EMF genes that are required for Arabidopsis shoot development.
EMAIL: lchen2@nature.berkeley.edu
