教育背景：
1994年毕业于河南农业大学植物保护系，获学士学位
2001年在中国农业大学植物病理学系，获博士学位

工作经历：
2001年-至今，中国农业科学院生物技术研究所历任 助研、副研、研究员
2013.11-2014.12 爱荷华州立大学遗传发育与细胞生物学系 访问学者

主要从事玉米籽粒发育和营养品质研究、功能型作物生物技术育种。作为团队主要成员开展转植酸酶基因玉米研究工作，该成果于2007年5月通过农业部科技成果鉴定，于2009年和2014年两次获得安全生产证书，是我国第一例获得安全证书的转基因玉米。先后主持完成我国转基因重大专项课题“优质功能型转基因玉米新品种培育”、国际合作项目，“863”课题等。参与完成 “973”、自然基金等课题。申请中国发明专利十五项，获得授权八项。发表论文60余篇，其中在Plant Biotechnology Journal，Journal of Experimental Botany，BMC Plant Biology等杂志上发表SCI论文20多篇。

1.Wu H, Gontarek BC, Yi G, Beall BD, Neelakandan AK, Adhikari B, Chen R, McCarty DR, Severin AJ, Becraft PW. The thick aleurone1 Gene Encodes a NOT1 Subunit of the CCR4-NOT Complex and Regulates Cell Patterning in Endosperm. Plant Physiol. 2020 Oct; 184(2):960-972.

2.Li Y, Liu X, Chen R, Tian J, Fan Y, Zhou X. Genome-scale mining of root-preferential genes from maize and characterization of their promoter activity. BMC Plant Biol. 2019 Dec 26; 19(1):584.

3.Zhang L, Luo Y, Liu B, Zhang L, Zhang W, Chen R, Wang L. Overexpression of the maize γ-tocopherol methyltransferase gene (ZmTMT) increases α-tocopherol content in transgenic Arabidopsis and maize seeds. Transgenic Res. 2020 Feb; 29(1):95-104.

4.Li S, Liu X, Zhou X, Li Y, Yang W, Chen R. Improving Zinc and Iron Accumulation in Maize Grains Using the Zinc and Iron Transporter ZmZIP5. Plant Cell Physiol. 2019 Sep 1; 60(9):2077-2085.

5.Liu X, Li S, Yang W, Mu B, Jiao Y, Zhou X, Zhang C, Fan Y, Chen R*. Synthesis of seed-specific bidirectional promoters for metabolic engineering of anthocyanin-rich maize. Plant Cell Physiol. 2018 Oct 1; 59(10):1942-1955.

6.Liu X, Yang W, Mu B, Li S, Li Y, Zhou X, Zhang C, Fan Y, Chen R*. Engineering of 'Purple Embryo Maize' with a multigene expression system derived from a bidirectional promoter and self-cleaving 2A peptides. Plant Biotechnol J. 2018 Jun; 16(6):1107-1109.

7.Liu X, Yang W, Li Y, Li S, Zhou X, Zhao Q, Fan Y, Lin M, Chen R*. The intergenic region of the maize defensin-like protein genes Def1 and Def2 functions as an embryo-specific asymmetric bidirectional promoter. J Exp Bot. 2016 Jul; 67(14):4403-13.

8.Li S, Zhou X, Zhao Y, Li H, Liu Y, Zhu L, Guo J, Huang Y, Yang W, Fan Y, Chen J, Chen R*. Constitutive expression of the ZmZIP7 in Arabidopsis alters metal homeostasis and increases Fe and Zn content. Plant Physiol Biochem. 2016 Sep; 106:1-10.

9.Li S, Zhou X, Chen J, Chen R*. Is there a strategy I iron uptake mechanism in maize? Plant Signal Behav. 2016 Mar 28:0.

10.Zhang S, Yang W, Zhao Q, Zhou X, Jiang L, Ma S, Liu X, Li Y, Zhang C, Fan Y, Chen R*.

Analysis of weighted co-regulatory networks in maize provides insights into new genes and regulatory mechanisms related to inositol phosphate metabolism. BMC Genomics. 2016 Feb 24; 17:129.