Assistant Professor
A330 Plant and Soil Sciences
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1325
Phone: 517/355-5191, ext 381
Fax: 517/353-0890
Email: jiangn@msu.edu

Dr. Jiang Education Research Publication
Joined Department:
     August 2004		 Appointment:
     90% Research
     10% Teaching
 

Education:

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

Research:

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.

Recent Publications:

Jiang N., Bao Z., Zhang X., Eddy S.R. and Wessler S.R. 2004. Pack-MULE transposable elements mediate gene evolution in plants. Nature 431:569-73.

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 meet genomics.  Nature Rev. Genet. 3:329-341.

Peterson D.G., Schulze S.R., Sciara E.B., Lee S.A., Bowers J.E., Nagel A., Jiang N., Tibbitts D.C., Wessler S.R. and Paterson A.H. 2002.  Integration of Cot analysis, DNA cloning, and high throughput sequencing facilitates genome characterization and gene discovery.  Genome Res. 12:795-807.

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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