Professor Junxian HE

	Address	(Office):	Rm G78B, Science Centre (South), CUHK
		(Lab):	Rm G02/04, Run Run Shaw Science Building, CUHK
	Phone	(Office):	(852) 3943 6299
		(Lab):	(852) 3943 1271
	Fax		(852) 2603 6382
	Email		jxhe@cuhk.edu.hk
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Education

	1993	Ph.D.	Lanzhou University
	1989	M.Sc.	Lanzhou University
	1986	B.Sc.	Lanzhou University

 

 

 

Position

• Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
• Investigator, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, CUHK

 

Research Interests

• Plant development and signal transduction;
• Functional genomics of plant stress resistance;
• Increase of crop yield and quality by modern molecular biotechnologies.

 

Representative Publications

• Wang X, Bian Y, Cheng K, Gu LF, Ye M, Zou HF, Sun SSM and *He JX. (2013) A Large-scale protein phosphorylation analysis reveals novel phosphorylation motifs and phosphoregulatory networks in Arabidopsis. Journal of Proteomics, pii: S1874-3919 (12)00713-0.

• Li QF, Wang C, Jiang L, Li S, Sun SSM and *He JX. (2012) An interaction between BZR1 and DELLAs mediates direct signaling crosstalk between brassinosteroids and gibberellins in Arabidopsis. Science Signaling 5: ra72. 
• Wang X, Bian Y, Cheng K, Zou H, Sun SS and *He JX. (2012) A comprehensive proteomic study of nitrogen deprivation in Arabidopsis reveals complex regulatory network of plant nitrogen responses. Journal of Proteome Resesearch 11: 2301-2315.
• Jiang L, Wang Y, Li QF, Björn LO, *He JX and Li SS. (2012) Arabidopsis STO negatively regulates UV-B signaling by interacting with COP1 and repressing HY5 transcriptional activity. Cell Research 22:1046-1057.
• Sun Y, Fan X, Cao D, He K, Tang W, Zhu J, He JX, Bai M, Zhu S, Oh E, Patil S, Kim T, Ji H, Wong HW, Rhee SY and Wang Z. (2010) Integration of brassinosteroid signal transduction with the transcription network for plant growth regulation in Arabidopsis. Developmental Cell 19: 765-777.
• Gampala S, Kim T, He JX, Tang W, Bai M, Guan S, Sun Y, Gendron J, Chen J, Ferl J, Ehrhardt D, Chong K, Burlingame A and Wang, Z.  (2007) An essential role for 14-3-3 proteins in brassinosteroid signal transduction in Arabidopsis.  Developmental Cell 13: 177-189.
• He JX, Gendron JM, Sun Y, Gampala SL, Gendron N, Sun CQ and Wang ZY. (2005) BZR1 is a transcriptional repressor with dual roles in brassinosteroid homeostasis and growth responses. Science 307: 1634-1638.
• Wang ZY and He JX. (2004) Brassinosteroid signal transduction – choices of signals and receptors. Trends in Plant Science 9: 91-96.
• He JX, Fujioka S, Li TC, Kang SG, Seto H, Takatsuto S, Yoshida S and Jang JC. (2003) Sterols regulate development and gene expression in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 131: 1258-1269.
• He JX, Gendron JM, Yang Y, Li J and Wang ZY. (2002) The GSK3-like kinase BIN2 phosphorylates and destabilizes BZR1, a positive regulator of the brassinosteroid signaling pathway in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of National Academy of Science USA 99: 10185-10190.
• Wang ZY, Nakano T, Gendron J, He JX, Chen M, Vafeados D, Yang Y, Fujioka S, Yoshida S, Asami T and Chory J. (2002) Nuclear-localized BZR1 mediates brassinosteroid-induced growth and feedback suppression of brassinosteroid biosynthesis. Developmental Cell 2: 505-513.

 

Research Grants as PC/PI

• 2013-2015, Research Grants Council (RGC) GRF Grant “Mechanistic and functional studies of brassinosteroid-induced anthocyanin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis”, HK$1,348,250;
• 2012-2015, NSFC Grant “Genomic study of drought tolerance mechanisms in desert plants”, RMB$3,000,000;
• 2011-2013, RGC GRF Grant “Identify new regulators of brassinosteroid signaling and plant development through the bzr1-1D suppressor mutant screen in Arabidopsis”, HK$1,000,000;
• 2010-2012, RGC GRF Grant “Identify new downstream signaling components in the brassinosteroid signal transduction pathway in Arabidopsis”, HK$944,700;
• 2009-2011, China National Transgenic project “Development of transgenic corn with high nitrogen use efficiency”, RMB$4,370,000

 

Professional Activities

• Editorial Board: Chinese Bulletin of Botany
• Peer Review Editorer: PLoS One, J Exp Bot, Physiol Plant, Gene, BMC Plant Biol, Plant Cell Rep, J Proteomics Res, J Protemoics, Marina Botanica, Mol Biol Rep, Acta Physiol Plant, Proptoplasma, J Integ Plant Biol., etc.