2009- Professor, China Agriculture University, Beijing, China
2004 to 2009 Assistant Investigator, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China
1999 to 2003 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Plant
Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
1995 to 1999 Ph.D. Student, Max-Planck-Institute for Plant
Breeding, Cologne, Germany.
1988 to 1995 Research Assistant and Associate, Institute of
Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
I am interested in studying how plants sense and respond to environmental stresses such as high soil salinity/alkalinity and drought. Particularly, we are interested in understanding regulation of Ca2+ signaling and pH homeostasis under salt stress in plants. The goals are to elucidate the plant signaling pathways in response to environmental stresses and to identify key components that can potentially be engineered for improvement of crop plants to encounter environmental stresses.
