Curriculum Vitae

Academic positions & Degrees:

Cy Mouradick Chair Professor                                                            2016-present

UC President's Chair  Professor                                                         2015-2016

Professor, University of California, Riverside                             2013-present

Associate Professor, University of California, Riverside       

Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside         

Specialist, Plant Gene Expression Center, UC Berkeley         

Postdoctoral Fellow, John Innes Center, UK                                 

Ph.D. Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences       

                                         

Areas Of Expertise:

Cross-Kingdom RNAi, RNA trafficking, Small RNA, Epigenetics, Plant Immunity, Pathogen virulence


Honors and Awards:

Elected Fellow of American Phytopathological Society, 2024

Elected Senior Member of National Academy of Inventors, 2022

Jubilee Lecture Award from International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB), 2021

Elected Fellow of American Academy of Microbiology, 2020

Highly Cited Researchers  Identified by the Web of Science Group, 2019

CIFAR Fellow (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research), 2019

12thAnnual Millikan Memorial Lecturer, University of Missouri, 2018

Ruth Allen Award, American Phytopathological Society, 2017

Elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2015

NSF Career Award, 2007-2013

EMBO Fellowship, European Molecular Biology Organization, 1999



Editoral Boards:

Senior Editor of Molecular Plant Microbe Interaction (2022-present)

                                    Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology (2018-present)

                                    Journal of Integrative Plant Biology (2017-present)

                                    Current Protocols in Plant Biology (2020-present)

                                    Journal of Plant Science and Molecular Breeding (2010-2013)

Editor of  Plant Physiology (2015-present)

                      Non-coding RNA (2014-present)

                     Journal of Integrative Plant Biology (2012-2017)

                     Frontiers in Plant-Microbe Interactions (2010-present)