教授

2004年毕业于浙江大学遗传学专业，获得博士学位。

2004-2007年中科院遗传与发育生物学研究所李家洋院士实验室从事博士后研究。

2007年至2011年美国佐治亚大学博士后。

2011年2月杭州师范大学“钱江高级人才”。

长期以来主要从事于水稻和拟南芥重要性状基因的克隆和功能研究，先后在《The Plant Cell》、《PNAS》、《Nature》、《Nat Struct &Mol Biol》等刊物上发表论文数篇。

主持国家自然科学基金一项；

获得吉林省科技进步二等奖两次。

在李家洋院士和钱前研究员实验室学习工作期间，通过分离水稻分类重要基因Phr1，首次发现Phr1基因在中国北方粳稻种子颜色的驯化过程中发挥重要作用。通过分离拟南芥主要的H3K4me3甲基转移酶SDG2，发现H3K4me3定位于高表达基因且具有促进基因表达的功能。H3K4me3缺失突变体的分离将为深入理解组蛋白甲基化修饰调控基因表达的分子机理提供材料平台。通过对组蛋白乙酰化的分布特性进行的研究，发现H4K5ac和H4K8ac等在DNA复制起始位点处有较高的富集程度，推测组蛋白乙酰化在DNA复制的过程中发挥作用。

Independent Losses of Function in a Polyphenol Oxidase in Rice:Differentiation in Grain Discoloration between Subspecies and the Role ofPositive Selection under Domestication

YanchunYu,TianTang, QianQian,Yonghong Wang, Meixian Yan, DaliZeng,BinHan,Chung-I Wu,Suhua Shi,and Jiayang Li

State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and NationalCenter for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School ofLife Sciences, Zhongshan(SunYat-Sen) University, Guangzhou 510275, China

State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China NationalRice Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310006, China

National Center for Gene Research, Chinese Academyof Sciences, Shanghai 200002, China

Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academyof Sciences, Beijing 100029, China

Department of Ecology and Evolution, Universityof Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637

Source: ThePlant Cell, 2008, 20, 2946–2959

SET DOMAIN GROUP2 is the major histone H3 lysine 4 trimethyltransferaseinArabidopsis

Lin Guo,Yanchun Yu,Julie A. Law, and Xiaoyu Zhang

Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia,Athens, GA30602; and Department of Molecular Cell and DevelopmentalBiology, University of California, LosAngeles,CA90095

Source: PNAS, 2010, 107(43): 18557–18562

Brittle Culm 12,adual-targeting kinesin-4 protein, controls cell-cycle progression and wall propertiesin rice

MuZhang, Baocai Zhang, Qian Qian, Yanchun Yu,Rui Li, Junwen Zhang,Xiangling Liu, Dali Zeng,Jiayang Liand Yihua Zhou

StateKey Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research, Instituteof Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101,China, and State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National RiceResearch Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310006, China

Source: The Plant Journal, 2010, 63, 312–328

The rice dynamin-relatedprotein DRP2B mediates membrane trafficking, and thereby plays a critical role insecondary cell wall cellulose biosynthesis

GuangyanXiong,Rui Li,Qian Qian,Xueqin Song,XianglingLiu,YanchunYu,Dali Zeng,Jianmin Wan,JiayangLiand Yihua Zhou

StateKey Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research, Instituteof Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101,China,

StateKey Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, ChineseAcademy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310006, China

NationalKey Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of CropScience, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China

Source: The Plant Journal, 2010, 64, 56–70

Genome-wide mapping ofArabidopsis thaliana origins of DNA replication and their associated epigeneticmarks

CelinaCostas, Maria de la Paz Sanchez, Hume Stroud,Yanchun Yu,Juan Carlos Oliveros, SuhuaFeng, Alberto Benguria, Irene López-Vidriero,Xiaoyu Zhang, Roberto Solano, Steven E Jacobsen& Crisanto Gutierrez

Centrode Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa, Consejo Superior de InvestigacionesCientíficas (CSIC)-Universidad autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain.

Departmentof Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, LosAngeles, California, USA.

Departmentof Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.

CentroNacional de Biotecnología, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.

HowardHughes Medical Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California,USA.

Presentaddress: Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, MexicoDF, Mexico.

Theseauthors contributed equally to this work. Correspondence should be addressed toC.G. or S.E.J.

Source:Nature Structural & Molecular Biology,2011,18,395–400

Year published:

Relationship between nucleosome positioning and DNAmethylation

Ramakrishna K. Chodavarapu,Suhua Feng,Yana V. Bernatavichute,Pao-Yang Chen,Hume Stroud,Yanchun Yu,Jonathan A. Hetzel,Frank Kuo,Jin Kim,Shawn J. Cokus,David Casero,Maria Bernal,Peter Huijser,Amander T. Clark,Ute Krämer,Sabeeha S. Merchant,Xiaoyu Zhang,Steven E. Jacobsen & Matteo Pellegrini

1 Department of Molecular, Cell, andDevelopmental Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles,California, United States of America

2 Howard Hughes Medical Institute,University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States ofAmerica

3 Molecular Biology Institute,University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States ofAmerica

4 Department of Plant Biology,University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, United States of America

5 University of Heidelberg, BIOQUANT23, R. 645, Im Neuenheimer Feld 267, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany

6 Department of Molecular PlantGenetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829 Cologne,Germany

7 Eli and Edythe Broad Center ofRegenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California, LosAngeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

8 Department of Chemistry andBiochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California,United States of America

Source:Nature,2010, Volume: 466,Pages: 388–392Date published:

LEAFYHEAD2, which encodes aputative RNA-binding protein, regulates shoot development of rice

GuoSheng Xiong, Xing Ming Hu, Yong Qing Jiao,Yan Chun Yu,Cheng Cai Chu, Jia Yang Li,Qian Qian, YongHong Wang

StateKey Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research,Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100101, China;

StateKey Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, ChineseAcademy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310006, China;

GraduateUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Source: Cell Research, 2006, 16:267-276