September, 1998 ~ July, 2002 B.S., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Peking University. Honor thesis: “Study on Salt Tolerance in Rice Cultivars with Transferred e-OAT Gene”
September, 2002~ July, 2008 Ph.D., Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University Research focuses on the molecular regulation of plant growth and development in Arabidopsis.
November, 2008 ~ now Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley. Research focuses on the molecular mechanism of plant defense against powdery mildew in Arabidopsis.
December 2011-now Researcher South China Botanical Garden, CAS. Research directions: the molecular mechanism of plant defense against powdery mildew in Arabidopsis and crop plants; crosstalk between abiotic stress response and biotic stress response in plants; the molecular mechanism of plant defense against oxidative stress; site-specific gene stacking technology in crops.
Huijun Yang, Yongqing Li and Jian Hua . (2006) The C2 domain protein BAP1 negatively regulates defense responses in Arabidopsis Plant Journal 48:238-248.
Yongqing Li, Shuhua Yang, Huijun Yang and Jian Hua, (2007) Regulation of an R gene SNC1 at the transcript level. Molecular Plant Microbe Interaction 20(11):1449-56 .
Huijun Yang, Shuhua Yang, Yongqing Li and Jian Hua, (2007)The Arabidopsis BAP1 and BAP2 genes are general inhibitors of programmed cell death Plant Physiology, 145(1):135-46
Yongqing Li, Shuhua Yang, Jian Hua, Multiple R-like genes are negatively regulated by BON1 and BON3 in Arabidopsis (2009) Molecular Plant Microbe Interaction 22(7):840-8
Yongqing Li, Mingyue Gou, Qi Sun, Jian Hua, (2010) Requirement of calcium binding, myristoylation, and protein-protein interaction for the Copine BON1 function in Arabidopsis Journal of Biological chemistry 285(39):29884-91.