Professors
Chen Chen
Professor/PI
Post：
PI of Plant Tolerance to Environmental Stress Lab
Tel：
Add：
No.723, Xingke Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou
Education：
Ph.D
Email：
chenchen101@scbg.ac.cn
Zip Code：
510650
Academic Education & Work Career：
2002.09 to 2006.07, Yangzte University, China. Bachelor of Bioengineering; 2008.09 to 2011.12, Sun Yat-Sen University, China. Graduate Study; 2012.01 to 2017.03, The University of Western Ontario, Canada. Doctor of Philosophy in Biology; 2017.04 to 2020.03, London Research and Developmental Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Postdoc; 2020.04 to Now, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Science. The Regulation of Plant Adaptivity (Principal Investigator)
Research Interest：
Plant transcription, Epigenetic Regulation, Transition of transcription stages, environment stresses
Supported Projects：
National Natural Science Foundation of China (32070648)
Awards and Honors：
2021 Pearl River youth talent support program
Publication：
1.Han, D.*, Chen, C.*, Xia, S., Liu, J., Shu, J., Nguyen, V., Lai, J., Cui, Y. and Yang, C. (2021) Chromatin-associated SUMOylation controls the transcriptional switch between plant development and heat stress responses. Plant Communications, 2, 100091.
2.Chen C.#, Shu J., Li C., Thapa R.K., Nguyen V., Yu K., Yuan Z.C., Kohalmi S.E., Liu J., Marsolais F., Huang S., Cui Y.# (2019) RNA polymerase II-independent recruitment of SPT6L at transcription start sites in Arabidopsis. Nucleic Acids Research 47 (13):6714-6725. doi:10.1093/nar/gkz465
3.Shu J.*, Chen C.*, Thapa R.K., Bian S., Nguyen V., Yu K., Yuan Z.C., Liu J., Kohalmi S.E., Li C., Cui Y. (2019) Genome-wide occupancy of histone H3K27 methyltransferases CURLY LEAF and SWINGER in Arabidopsis seedlings. Plant Direct 3 (1):e00100. doi:10.1002/pld3.100
4. Li C.*, Chen C.*, Chen H., Wang S., Chen X., Cui Y. (2018) Verification of DNA motifs in Arabidopsis using CRISPR/Cas9-mediated mutagenesis. Plant Biotechnol Journal 16 (8):1446-1451. doi:10.1111/pbi.12886
5.Chen C.*, Li C.*, Wang Y., Renaud J., Tian G., Kambhampati S., Saatian B., Nguyen V., Hannoufa A., Marsolais F., Yuan Z.C., Yu K., Austin R.S., Liu J., Kohalmi S.E., Wu K., Huang S., Cui Y. (2017) Cytosolic acetyl-CoA promotes histone acetylation predominantly at H3K27 in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants 3 (10):814-824. doi:10.1038/s41477-017-0023-7