报告题目:The ER and microtubules in tip growth of Arabidopsis root hairs 

报告时间:2013年12月2日下午 4：00 

报告地点:遗传发育所B210会议室 

报告人:Professor Hugo Zheng 

　　    Department of Biology 

　　    McGill University, Canada 

联系人:杨维才 Tel: 64807761, email: wcyang@genetics.ac.cn 

　　
Dr Zheng completed his Ph.D. in Plant Cell Biology under the supervision of Drs Chris Hawes at Oxford Brookes University and Ian Moore at the University of Oxford.  Following his doctoral study, Dr Zheng continued to work with Dr Moore at the University of Oxford for about a year as a post-doctoral research fellow in 2001.  At Oxford, Dr Zheng developed an innovative, GFP-based, in vivo imaging assay system for qualitative and quantitative membrane trafficking analysis in plant cells.  In 2001, Dr Zheng moved to the University of British Columbia to continue his post-doctoral research with Dr.LjerkaKunst studying various aspects of lipid biosynthesis, lipid transport and lipid function in Arabidopsis.  Dr Zheng joined the Biology Department at McGill University in January 2007. 

Selected Publications 

Hooker, T.S., Lam, P., Zheng, H., Kunst, L. (2007) A core subunit of the RNA-processing/degrading exosomespecifically influences cuticularwax biosynthesis in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell,19: 904-913. 

Zheng, H., Camacho, L., Batoko, H., Wee, E., Legen, J., Leaver, C., Malho, R., Hussey, P. and Moore, I. (2005).A Rab-E GTPase mutant acts downstream of the Rab-D subclass in biosynthetic membrane traffic to the plasma membrane in tobacco leaf epidermis. Plant Cell,17: 2020-2036 

Zheng, H., Rowland, O. and Kunst, L. (2005). Disruptions of the Arabidopsis enoyl-CoA reductase gene reveal an essential role for very-long-chain fatty acid synthesis in cell expansion during plant morphogenesis. Plant Cell,17: 1467-1481 

Pighin, J.*, Zheng, H.*, Balakshin L.J., Goodman, I.P., Western, T.L., Jetter, R., Kunst, L., and Samuels L.A. (2004). Plant cuticular lipid export requires an ABC transporter. Science 306: 702-704 *- co-first author