学术报告 2021年03月25日（星期四）上午10:00 报告人：A/Prof. Juan Dong

题　目： Polarity factors and regulators in plant asymmetric cell division
报告人： A/Prof. Juan Dong，Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA
时　间： 2021年03月25日（星期四）上午10:00-12:00
地　点： 中国农业大学   生命科学研究中心   一层报告厅（线上直播）

腾讯会议直播：https://meeting.tencent.com/l/PVZxtxJTUGjU



Education
UC Riverside California   Plant Biology   Ph.D.  2005
Institute of Botany, CAS   Plant Cell Biology  M.S.  2000
Shandong Normal University  Biology    B.S.  1997

Professional Experience
2017-present Associate Professor, Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
2011-2017 Assistant Professor, Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
2006-2011 Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

Research Interests 
        Polarity is a fundamental feature of the cells and can manifest itself both in overall morphology and in unequal distribution of molecular components. The establishment and maintenance of cell polarity are required for asymmetric cell division (ACD), an indispensable mechanism for multi-cellular organisms to generate cellular diversity by producing daughter cells with distinctive identities from a single mother cell. Studies on the plant-specific protein BASL (Breaking of Asymmetry in the Stomatal Lineage) provided strong evidence that plant cells have the capability to polarize non-transmembrane proteins and utilize polarized protein distribution to regulate asymmetric cell division (Dong, et al., 2009). During the past years, we established a positive feedback loop between BASL and a mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling cascade that promotes cell polarity. Our recent research identified additional polarized proteins that are key to establish cell polarity and/or enable stomatal ACD. Our research is dedicated to 1) uncovering the fundamental principles that govern cell polarization and ACD and 2) elucidating the mechanisms underpinning the connections among cell polarization, ACD, and cell differentiation using stomatal development as a model system.