标题：左建儒
个人简介
左建儒，植物遗传学和细胞生物学家，  中科院遗传与发育生物学研究所研究员，博士生导师。
学习和工作简历
1984年7月毕业于西南师范大学生物系，获学士学位。
1988年7月获中科院遗传所硕士学位。
1994年12月获美国迈阿密大学博士学位，
1995年进入美国洛克菲勒大学进行博士后研究。
2000年入选中国科学院“百人计划”，并在结题验收中获得优秀。
2001年国家杰出青年科学基金获得者。2002年入选国家自然科学基金委员会“优秀创新团队”。
担任职务
现任中科院遗传与发育生物学研究所 研究员，博士生导师，中国遗传学会常务理事、植物遗传与基因组学专业委员会主任。《遗传学报》与《遗传》副主编，《科学通报》特邀编委，Molecular Plant, Physiologia Plantarum, Plant Signaling & Behavior, Biology of Cell, J Integrative Plant Biology，《生物化学与生物物理进展》等刊物编委 。北京大学、山东农业大学、兰州大学和江苏大学兼职或客座教授。

主要研究方向
1.细胞分裂素的信号转导

发表的主要论文
1.Mu, J., Tan, H., Zheng, Q., Fu, F., Liang, Y., Zhang, J., Yang, X., Wang, T., Chong, K., Wang, X., and Zuo, J. (2008) LEAFY COTYLEDON1 
is a key regulator of fatty acid biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol., DOI: 10.1104/pp.108.126342. 
2.Wang, X.*, Niu, Q-W.*, Teng, C., Li, C., Mu, J., Chua, N.-H., and Zuo, J. (2008) Overexpression of PGA37/MYB118and MYB115
promotes vegetative-to-embryonic transition in Arabidopsis. Cell Res., DOI: 10.1038/cr.2008.276. (* These authors contributed equally)
3. Teng, C.*, Dong, H.*, Shi, L.*, Deng, Y., Mu, J., Zhang, J., Yang, X., and Zuo, J. (2008) Serine palmitoyltransferase, a key enzyme for 
de novosynthesis of sphingolipids, is essential for male gametophyte development in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol., 146:1322-1332.
(* These authors contributed equally) 
4. Shi, L.*, Bielawski, J.*, Mu, J.*, Dong, H., Teng, C., Zhang, J., Yang, X., Tomishige, N., Hanada, K., Hannun, Y.A., and Zuo, J. (2007). 
Involvement of sphingoid bases in mediating reactive oxygen intermediate production and programmed cell death in Arabidopsis. 
Cell Res., 17:1030-1040. (* These authors contributed equally) 
5. Feng, H., Chen, Q., Feng, J., Zhang, J, Yang, X., and Zuo, J (2007)Functional characterization of the Arabidopsiseukaryotic translation 
initiation factor 5A-2 (eIF-5A-2) that plays a crucial role in plant growth and development by regulating cell division, cell growth and cell 
death.Plant Physiol., 144:1531-1545. 
6. Dong, H.*, Deng, Y.*, Mu, J., Lu, Q., Wang, Y., Xu, Y., Chu, C., Chong, K., Lu, C., and Zuo, J. (2007) The Arabidopsis Spontaneous Cell Death1 gene, encoding a z-carotene desaturase essential for carotenoid biosynthesis, is involved in chloroplast development,Cell Res., 17:458-470. (* These authors contributed equally) 
7. Feng, H.*, An, F.*, Zhang, S., Ji, J., Ling, H., and Zuo, J. (2006) Light-regulated, tissue-specific, and cell differentiation-specific expression of the ArabidopsisFe(III)-chelate reductase gene AtFRO6.Plant Physiol., 140:1345-1354. (* These authors contributed equally) 
8. Zheng, B.*, Deng, Y.*, Mu, J., Ji, Z., Xiang, T., Niu, Q.-W., Chua, N.-H., Zuo, J. (2006) Cytokinin affects circadian-clock oscillation in a phytochrome B- and Arabidopsis Response Regulator4-dependent manner. Physiol.Plant., 127: 277–292. 
(* These authors contributed equally) 
9. Zuo, J., Hare, P.D., and Chua, N.H. (2006) Applications of chemical-inducible expression systems in functional genomics and biotechnology. In“Methods in Molecular Biology-ArabidopsisProtocols”, eds. Salinas, J., and Sanchez-Serrano, J.J., pp 329-342. Humana Press, NJ. 
10. Sun, J., Hirose, N., Wang, X., Wen, P., Xue, L., Sakakibara, H., and Zuo, J. (2005) The Arabidopsis SOI33/AtENT8gene encodes a putative equilibrative nucleoside transporter that is involved in cytokinin transport in planta. J Integrat.Plant Biol., 47:588-603. 
11. Sun, J.*, Niu, Q.-W.*, Tarkowski, P., Zheng, B., Tarkowska, D., Sandberg, G., Chua, N.-H., and Zuo, J. (2003) The Arabidopsis AtIPT8/PGA22 gene encodes an isopentenyl transferase that is involved in de novocytokinin biosynthesis. Plant Physiol. 131:167-176. (* These authors contributed equally) 
12. Zuo, J., Niu, Q., Ikeda, Y., and Chua, N.-H. (2002) Marker-free transformation: Increasing transformation frequency by the use of regeneration-promoting genes. Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 13:173-180. 
13. 邓岩* 王兴春* 杨淑华 左建儒（2006）细胞分裂素: 代谢、信号转导、交叉反应与农艺性状改良. 植物学通报, 23:478-498. (* 同等 
贡献) 
14. 张健* 徐金相* 孔英珍* 纪振动* 王兴春* 安丰英* 李超* 孙加强 张素芝 杨晓辉 牟金叶 刘新仿 李家洋 薛勇彪 左建儒 (2005) 化学诱导激活型拟南芥突变体库的构建及分析. 遗传学报 32:1082-1088. (* 同等贡献) 
15. 郑丙莲 张素芝 孙加强 邓岩 左建儒（2003）细胞分裂素信号转导：已知的简单性与未知的复杂性. 科学通报 48:885-891, 2003.   回国前发表的主要论文
1. Zuo, J., Niu, Q., Frugis, G., and Chua, N.-H. (2002) The WUSCHELgene promotes vegetative-to-embryonic transition in Arabidopsis. 
Plant J. 30:349-359 (cover story). 
2. Zuo, J., Niu, Q., Moller, S., and Chua, N.-H. (2001) Chemical-regulated, site-specific DNA recombination in transgenic plants. Nat. 
Biotechnol. 19:157-161. 
3. Zuo, J., Niu, Q., Nishizawa, N, Wu, Y., Kost, B., and Chua, N.-H. (2000). KORRIGAN1, an Arabidopsis1,4-b-glucanase localizes to the 
cell plate by polarized targeting and is essential for cytokinesis. Plant Cell 12:1137-1152. 
4. Zuo, J., Niu, Q., and Chua, N.-H. (2000) An estrogen receptor-based transactivator XVE mediates highly inducible gene expression in 
plants. Plant J. 24:265-273. 
5. Zuo, J., and Chua, N.-H. (2000) Chemical-inducible systems for regulated expression of plant genes. Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 11:146-151. 
6. Zuo, J., Rungger, D., and Voellmy, R. (1995) Multiple levels of regulation of human heat shock transcription factor 1. Mol. Cell. Biol. 
15:4319-4330. 
7. Zuo, J., Baler, R., Dahl, G., and Voellmy, R. (1994) Activation of the DNA-binding ability of human heat shock transcription factor 1 may 
involve the transition from an intramolecular to an intermolecular triple-strand coiled-coil structure. Mol. Cell. Biol. 14:7557-7568. 
8. Tatzelt, J., Zuo, J., Voellmy, R., Scott, M., Hartl, U., Prusiner, S.B., and Welch, W.J. (1995) Scrapie prions selectively modify the stress 
response in nuroblastoma cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92:2944-2948. 
9. Hedge, R. F., Zuo, J., Voellmy, R., and Welch, W.J. (1995) Short circuiting stress protein expression via a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, 
herbimycin A. J. Cell. Physiol. 165:186-200. 
10.Xia, W., Guo, Y., Vilaboa, N., Zuo, J., and Voellmy, R. (1998) Transcriptional activation of heat shock factor HSF1 probed by 
phosphopeptide analysis of factor 32P-labeled in vivo. J. Biol. Chem. 273:8749-8755. 
11.Ananthan, J., Baler, R., Morrissey, D., Zuo, J., Lan, Y., Weir, M., and Voellmy, R. (1993) Synergistic activation of transcription is mediated 
by the N-terminal domain of Drosophila fushi tarazu homeoprotein and can occur without DNA binding by the protein. Mol. Cell. Biol. 
13:1599-1609.