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)