HOU YINGNAN   Associate Professor/Principal Investigator Department of Plant Science Email: [email protected] Office：Room 431, Building B

 

>>Research Interests

1. Epigenetic regulation of plant immunity
2. Trans-species movement of molecules between plant and microbe
3. Impacts of environmental changes to plant-microbe interaction

Research Gate: //www.researchgate.net/profile/Yingnan-Hou-2

 

>>Employment

Associate Professor	Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China	2020-present
Assistant Project Scientist	UC Riverside, California, US	2019-2020
Postdoctoral Researcher	UC Riverside, California, US	2014-2019

 

 

 

>>Education

Ph.D.  2014. Biotechnology, Peking University, Beijing, China

B.S.  2007. Biotechnology, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, China

 

>>Publications (* First author, # Corresponding author)

1. Kong, X. *, Yang, M. *, Le, B., He, W., Hou, Y. # (2022). The master role of siRNAs in plant immunity. Molecular Plant Pathology DOI: 10.1111/mpp.13250. (BSPP Highlight)
2. Qiao, Y., Xia, R., Zhai, J., Hou, Y., Feng, L., Zhai, Y., and Ma, W.# (2021). Small RNAs in Plant Immunity and Virulence of Filamentous Pathogens. Annu Rev Phytopathol 59, 265-288
3. Hou, Y.*#, and Ma, W.# (2020). Natural Host-Induced Gene Silencing Offers New Opportunities to Engineer Disease Resistance. Trends in microbiology 28, 109-117.
4. Hudzik, C.*, Hou, Y.*, Ma, W., and Axtell, M.J.# (2020). Exchange of small regulatory RNAs between plants and their pests. Plant physiology 182, 51-62.
5. Hou, Y.*, Zhai, Y.*, Feng, L., Karimi, H.Z., Rutter, B.D., Zeng, L., Choi, D.S., Zhang, B., Gu, W., Chen, X., and Ma, W.# (2019). A Phytophthora effector suppresses trans-kingdom RNAi to promote disease susceptibility. Cell host & microbe 25, 153-165. (Cover story) (“Best of 2019” in Cell host & microbe).
6. Cai, Q., Liang, C., Wang, S., Hou, Y., Gao, L., Liu, L., He, W., Ma, W., Mo, B., and Chen, X.# (2018). The disease resistance protein SNC1 represses the biogenesis of microRNAs and phased siRNAs. Nature communications 9, 1-14.
7. Hou, Y.*, and Ma, W.# (2017). Small RNA and mRNA Profiling of Arabidopsis in Response to Phytophthora Infection and PAMP Treatment. Methods Mol Biol 1578, 273-283.
8. Hou, Y.*, Guo, X.*, Cyprys, P., Zhang, Y., Bleckmann, A., Cai, L., Huang, Q., Luo, Y., Gu, H., Dresselhaus, T., Dong, J., and Qu, L.J.# (2016). Maternal ENODLs Are Required for Pollen Tube Reception in Arabidopsis. Current Biology 26, 2343-2350.
9. Qiao, Y., Shi, J., Zhai, Y., Hou, Y., and Ma, W.# (2015). Phytophthora effector targets a novel component of small RNA pathway in plants to promote infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci 112, 5850-5855.
10. Wang, Y., Hou, Y., Gu, H., Kang, D., Chen, Z.L., Liu, J.#, and Qu, L.J. (2013). The Arabidopsis Anaphase-Promoting Complex/Cyclosome Subunit 1 is Critical for Both Female Gametogenesis and Embryogenesis. J Integr Plant Biol 55, 64-74.
11. Liu, J., Zhong, S., Guo, X., Hao, L., Wei, X., Huang, Q., Hou, Y., Shi, J., Wang, C., Gu, H. and Qu, L.J.# (2013). Membrane-bound RLCKs LIP1 and LIP2 are essential male factors controlling male-female attraction in Arabidopsis. Current Biology 23, 993-998.
12. Liu, J., Hou, Y., Qu, L.J.# (2013). Molecular Mechanisms behind the Male-Female Interaction in Fertilization in Higher Plants. SCIENTIA SINICA Vitae 43, 842-853.
13. Wang, Y., Hou, Y., Gu, H., Kang, D., Chen, Z., Liu, J.#, and Qu, L.J. (2012). The Arabidopsis APC4 subunit of the anaphase‐promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) is critical for both female gametogenesis and embryogenesis. The Plant Journal 69, 227-240.