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Name:
 Wang Ming
Subject:
 Genomics, Epigenetics, Plant Protection
Tel/Fax:
 +86-10-64807230  / 
E-mail:
 wangming@ioz.ac.cn
Address:
 Room D513, No. 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, P.R.China
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 Epigenetic Engineering Group      
Resume:

2023.06 – present Principal Investigator, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

2021.10 – 2023.06 Assistant Project Scientist, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

2017.09 – 2021.10 Postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

2015.09 – 2017.09 Postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Riverside, USA.

Education:

2010.09 – 2015.08 Ph.D. in Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside.

2006.09 – 2010.06 Bachelor in Biological Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.

Research Interests:
  1. Develop and optimize the epigenome engineering tools for targeting gene regulation in plants.
  2. Explore the signaling pathways and gene regulatory mechanisms involved in the interactions among crops, pathogen, and insect vectors to uncover the mechanisms of pathogenesis, vector-mediated disease transmission, and plant disease resistance

Awards and Honors:

Professional Activities:

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Selected Publications:
  1. Yuejing Cheng*, Yu Zhou*, Ming Wang#. Targeted gene regulation through epigenome editing in plants. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 80:102552 (2024)
  2. Ming Wang*, Zhenhui Zhong*, Javier Gallego-Bartolomé, Zheng Li, Suhua Feng, Hsuan Yu Kuo, Ryan L Kan, Hoiyan Lam, John Curtis Richey, Linli Tang, Jessica Zhou, Mukun Liu, Yasaman Jami-Alahmadi, James Wohlschlegel, Steven E Jacobsen, A gene silencing screen uncovers diverse tools for targeted gene repression in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants 1-13 (2023)
  3. Ming Wang*, Zhenhui Zhong*, Javier Gallego-Bartolome, Suhua Feng, Yuan-Hsin Shih, Mukun Liu, Jessica Zhou, John Curtis Richey, Charmaine Ng, Yasaman Jami-Alahmadi, James Wohlschlegel, Keqiang Wu, Steven E Jacobsen. Arabidopsis TRB proteins function in H3K4me3 demethylation by recruiting JMJ14. Nature Communications 14, 1736 (2023)
  4. Arne Weiberg*, Ming Wang*, Feng-Mao Lin, Hongwei Zhao, Zhihong Zhang, Isgouhi Kaloshian, Hsien-Da Huang, Hailing Jin, Fungal small RNAs suppress plant immunity by hijacking host RNA interference pathways. Science 342, 118–123 (2013)
  5. Ming Wang, Arne Weiberg, Feng-Mao Lin, Bart P. H. J. Thomma, Hsien-Da Huang, Hailing Jin. Bidirectional cross-kingdom RNAi and fungal uptake of external RNAs confer plant protection. Nature Plants 2, 16151 (2016)
  6. Zheng Li*, Ming Wang*, Zhenhui Zhong*, Javier Gallego-Bartolomé, Suhua Feng, Yasaman Jami-Alahmadi, Xinyi Wang, James Wohlschlegel, Sylvain Bischof, Jeffrey A. Long, Steven E. Jacobsen. The MOM1 complex recruits the RdDM machinery via MORC6 to establish de novo DNA methylation. Nature Communications 14, 4135 (2023)
  7. Zhenhui Zhong*, Yafei Wang*, Ming Wang*, Fan Yang, Quentin Angelo Thomas, Yan Xue, Yaxin Zhang, Wanlu Liu, Yasaman Jami-Alahmadi, Linhao Xu, Suhua Feng, Sebastian Marquardt, James A Wohlschlegel, Israel Ausin, Steven E Jacobsen. Histone chaperone ASF1 mediates H3. 3-H4 deposition in Arabidopsis. Nature Communications 13, 6970 (2022)
  8. Ming Wang, Hailing Jin. Spray-Induced Gene Silencing: a Powerful Innovative Strategy for Crop Protection. Trends in microbiology 25: 4-6 (2017)
  9. Ming Wang*, Arne Weiberg*, Exequiel Dellota Jr, Daniel Yamane, Hailing Jin. Botrytis small RNA Bc-siR37 suppresses plant defense genes by cross-kingdom RNAi. RNA Biology, 14:421-428 (2017)
  10. Ming Wang, Nicholas Thomas and Hailing Jin. Cross-kingdom RNA trafficking and environmental RNAi for powerful innovative pre- and post-harvest plant protection. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 38:133-141 (2017)
  11. Ming Wang*, Arne Weiberg*, Hailing Jin. Pathogen small RNAs: a new class of effectors for pathogen attacks. Molecular plant pathology 16.3 219-223 (2015)
  12. Gardiner, Jason*, Basudev Ghoshal*, Ming Wang*, and Steven E. Jacobsen. CRISPR-CAS mediated transcriptional control and epi-mutagenesis. Plant Physiology (2022)
  13. Cai, Qiang, Lulu Qiao, Ming Wang, Baoye He, Feng-Mao Lin, Jared Palmquist, Sienna-Da Huang, and Hailing Jin. Plants send small RNAs in extracellular vesicles to fungal pathogen to silence virulence genes. Science 360 1126-1129 (2018)
  14. Wang, Shuya, Ming Wang, Lucia Ichino, Brandon A. Boone, Zhenhui Zhong, Ranjith K. Papareddy, Evan K. Lin, Jaewon Yun, Suhua Feng, and Steven E. Jacobsen. MBD2 couples DNA methylation to transposable element silencing during male gametogenesis. Nature Plants 1-12 (2024)
  15. Zhenhui Zhong, Yan Xue, C Jake Harris, Ming Wang, Zheng Li, Yunqing Ke, Mukun Liu, Jessica Zhou, Yasaman Jami-Alahmadi, Suhua Feng, James A Wohlschlegel, Steven E Jacobsen. MORC proteins regulate transcription factor binding by mediating chromatin compaction in active chromatin regions. Genome Biology 24, no. 1 96 (2023)
  16. Liu, Wanlu, Javier Gallego-Bartolomé, Yuxing Zhou, Zhenhui Zhong, Ming Wang, Somsakul Pop Wongpalee, Jason Gardiner, Suhua Feng, Peggy Hsuanyu Kuo, and Steven E. Jacobsen. Ectopic targeting of CG DNA methylation in Arabidopsis with the bacterial SssI methyltransferase. Nature communications 12, no. 1 1-14 (2021)
  17. Xue, Yan, Zhenhui Zhong, C. Jake Harris, Javier Gallego-Bartolomé, Ming Wang, Colette Picard, Xueshi Cao et al. Arabidopsis MORC proteins function in the efficient establishment of RNA directed DNA methylation. Nature communications 12, no. 1 1-13 (2021)
  18. Weiberg, Arne, Ming Wang, Marschal Bellinger, and Hailing Jin. Small RNAs: A New Paradigm in Plant-Microbe Interactions. Annual Review of Phytopathology 52, no. 1 (2014)
  19. Feng, Suhua, Zhenhui Zhong, Ming Wang, and Steven E. Jacobsen. Efficient and accurate determination of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns in Arabidopsis thaliana with enzymatic methyl sequencing. Epigenetics & chromatin 13, no. 1 1-17 (2020)
  20. Dong, Oliver X., Louis-Valentin Meteignier, Melodie B. Plourde, Bulbul Md Ahmed, Ming Wang, Cassandra Jensen, Hainling Jin, Peter Moffett, Xin Li, and Hugo Germain. Arabidopsis TAF15b localizes to RNA processing bodies and contributes to snc1-mediated autoimmunity. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 29.4 247-257 (2016)
  21. Hamby, Rachael, Ming Wang, Lulu Qiao, and Hailing Jin. Synthesizing Fluorescently Labeled dsRNAs and sRNAs to Visualize Fungal RNA Uptake. RNA Tagging, pp. 215-225. Humana, New York, NY, (2020)