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Ph.D., Plant Biology, University of Georgia, 2002
M.S., Plant Physiology, Yangzhou University, China, 1986
B.S., Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Nanjing
University, China, 1983
My primary research objective is to explore the function of transposable
elements (TEs) in order to understand the forces underlying eukaryotic genome
diversification. It now seems clear that each genome possesses a unique spectrum
of transposable elements and a varying proportion of these are active. An open
question is how this diversity of TEs influences the evolutionary trajectory of
the genomes in which they reside. I use both computational and molecular
biology-based approaches to address this question and to analyze the
ever-increasing database of genomic sequence from multiple plant species.
Hanada,
K., Vallejo, V., Nobuta, K., Slotkin, R.K., Lisch, D., Meyers, B.C., Shiu, S.H.,
and Jiang, N. (2009).
The Functional Role of Pack-MULEs in Rice Inferred from Purifying Selection and
Expression Profile. Plant Cell 21, 25-38.
Lisch,
D., and Jiang, N.
(2009). Mutator and MULE transposons. In Handbook of Maize: Genetics and
Genomics, J.L. Benntzen and S. Hake, eds (New York: Springer), pp. 277-306.
Ammiraju,
J.S., Lu, F., Sanyal, A., Yu, Y., Song, X., Jiang, N.,
Pontaroli, A.C., Rambo, T., Currie, J., Collura, K., Talag, J., Fan, C.,
Goicoechea, J.L., Zuccolo, A., Chen, J., Bennetzen, J.L., Chen, M., Jackson, S.,
and Wing, R.A. (2008). Dynamic evolution of oryza genomes is revealed by
comparative genomic analysis of a genus-wide vertical data set. Plant Cell 20,
3191-3209.
Xiao,
H., Jiang, N.,
Schaffner, E., Stockinger, E.J., and van der Knaap, E. (2008).
A
retrotransposon-mediated gene duplication underlies morphological variation of
tomato fruit. Science 319, 1527-1530.
Campbell, M.A., Zhu, W.,
Jiang, N., Lin, H., Ouyang, S.,
Childs, K.L., Haas, B.J., Hamilton, J.P., and Buell, C.R. (2007). Identification
and characterization of lineage-specific genes within the Poaceae. Plant
Physiol. 145, 1311-1322.
Zhang, S., Gu, Y.Q., Singh, J., Coleman-Derr,
D., Brar, D.S., Jiang, N.,
and Lemaux, P.G. (2007). New insights into Oryza genome evolution: high gene
colinearity and differential retrotransposon amplification. Plant Mol. Biol. 64,
589-600.
Holligan, D., Zhang, X.,
Jiang, N., Pritham, E.J., and Wessler,
S.R. (2006). The transposable element landscape of the model legume Lotus
japonicus. Genetics 174, 2215-2228.
Tsukamoto, T., Hauck, N.R., Tao, R.,
Jiang, N., and Iezzoni, A.F.
(2006). Molecular characterization of three non-functional S-haplotypes in sour
cherry (Prunus cerasus). Plant Mol. Biol. 62, 371-383.
Zhang, S., Chen, C., Li, L., Meng, L., Singh,
J., Jiang, N., Deng,
X.W., He, Z.H., and Lemaux, P.G. (2005). Evolutionary expansion, gene structure,
and expression of the rice wall-associated kinase gene family. Plant Physiol.
139, 1107-1124.
Jiang N.,
Bao Z., Zhang X., Eddy S.R. and Wessler S.R. 2004. Pack-MULE transposable
elements mediate gene evolution in plants. Nature 431:569-573.
Feltus F.A., Wan J., Schulze S.R., Estill J.C.,
Jiang N.,
and Paterson A.H. 2004. An SNP resource for rice genetics and breeding based on
subspecies indica and japonica genome alignments. Genome Res. 14:1812-9.
Jiang N.,
Feschotte C., Zhang X., and Wessler S.R. 2004. Using rice to understand the
origin and amplification of MITEs. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 7:115-119.
Zhang
X., Jiang N.,
Feschotte C. and Wessler S.R. 2004.
PIF and Pong-like elements:
distribution, evolution and relationship with the Tourist-like miniature
inverted-repeat transposable elements. Genetics 166:971-986.
Jiang N.,
Bao Z., Zhang X., Hirochika H., Eddy S.R., McCouch S.R. and Wessler S.R. 2003.
An active DNA transposon family in rice. Nature 421:163-167.
Jiang N.,
Jordan I.K. and Wessler S.R. 2002. Dasheng and RIRE2: a non-autonomous LTR
element and its putative autonomous partner in the rice genome. Plant Physiol.
130:1697-1705.
Jiang N.,
Bao Z., Temnykh S., Cheng Z., Jiang J., Wing R.A., McCouch S.R. and Wessler
S.R. 2002. Dasheng: a recently amplified non-autonomous LTR element that is a
major component of pericentromeric regions in rice. Genetics 161: 1293-1305.
Feschotte C.,
Jiang N.
and Wessler S.R. 2002. Plant transposable
elements: where genetics meets genomics. Nature Rev. Genet. 3: 329-341.
Jiang N.
and Wessler S.R. 2001. Insertion preference of maize and rice MITEs as revealed
by the analysis of nested elements. The Plant Cell 13: 2553-2564.
Zhang X., Feshotte C., Zhang Q.,
Jiang N., Eggelston W.B. and
Wessler S.R. 2001. P Instability Factor: an active maize transposon system
associated with the amplification of Tourist-like MITEs and a new superfamily of
transposases. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 98:12572-12577.
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