男，1980年8月生，汉族，中共党员，教授、博士生导师。入选江苏****（2017）、江苏省“双创团队”核心成员（2017），获江苏省****基金资助（2018）和江苏省“六大人才高峰”（A类，2019）资助。
2003年毕业于扬州大学农学院，获农学学士学位；2006年毕业于中国农业科学院研究生院，获分子生物学与生物化学硕士学位；2011年毕业于中国科学院上海生命科学院植物生理生态研究所，获遗传学博士学位。随后在美国明尼苏达大学和内布拉斯加大学从事博士后研究工作。2015年5月作为校****加入扬州大学农学院工作。
主讲本科生《遗传学》、《World Agriculture》和《生命科学导论》等专业和公选课程。目前主要从事水稻胚乳以及种子早期发育的遗传和表观遗传调控机理研究。主持国家自然科学基金面上项目两项，国家重点研发计划子课题一项，江苏省****项目一项，省自然科学基金青年项目一项；参与国家自然科学基金重点项目一项。在Nature Communications, Molecular Plant, Plant Physiology, Plant Journal, Journal of Experimental Botany等知名学术杂志上以通讯作者或第一作者发表论文多篇。
发表的主要论文：
Niu B, Deng H, Li T, Sandeep S, Yun Q, Li Q, E Z, Chen C*. OsbZIP76 interacts with OsNF-YBs and regulates endosperm cellularization in rice (Oryza sativa). Journal of Integrate Plant Biology. 2020; doi:10.1111/jipb.12989. (Corresponding author)
Cheng X, Pan M, E Z, Zhou Y, Niu B, Chen C*. The Maternally Expressed Polycomb Group Gene OsEMF2a Is Essential for Endosperm Cellularization and Imprinting in Rice. Plant Communications. 2020; doi.org/10.1016/j.xplc.2020.100092. (Corresponding author)
Cheng X, Pan M, E Z, Zhou Y, Niu B, Chen C*. Functional divergence of two duplicated Fertilization Independent Endosperm genes in rice with respect to seed development. Plant Journal. 2020; doi.org/10.1101/714444. (Corresponding author)
Chen C, Begcy K. Genome-Wide Identification of Allele-Specific Gene Expression in a Parent-of-Origin Specific Manner. Book chapter, in Methods in Molecular Biology, Springer. 2019; doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9865-4_11.
Chen C. Origin of Plant Hybrid Incompatibility. Book chapter, in eLS. Wiley. 2019; DOI: 10.1002/X.
Chen C*, Li T, Zhu S, Liu Z, Shi Z, Zheng X, Chen R, Huang J, Shen Y, Luo S, Wang L, Liu QQ, E Z*. Characterization of imprinted genes in rice reveals conservation of regulation and imprinting with other plant species. Plant Physiology, 2018, 177:1754-1771. (Corresponding author)
E Z, Li T, Zhang H, Liu Z, Deng H, Sharma S, Wei X, Wang L, Niu B, Chen C*, A group of nuclear factor Y transcription factors are sub-functionalized during endosperm development in monocots. Journal of Experimental Botany, 2018, 69:2495-2510. (Corresponding author)
Chen C*, E Z, Lin HX. Evolution and Molecular Control of Hybrid Incompatibility in Plants. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016, 7:1208. (Corresponding author)
Chen C, Begcy K, Liu K, Folsom JJ, Wang Z, Zhang C, Walia H*. Heat stress yields a unique MADS box transcription factor in determining seed size and thermal sensitivity. Plant Physiology, 2016, 171:606-622.
Chen C, Chen H, Lin YS, Shen JB, Shan JX, Qi P, Shi M, Zhu MZ, Huang XH, Feng Q, Han B, Jiang L, Gao JP*, Lin HX*. A two-locus interaction causes interspecific hybrid weakness in rice. Nature Communications, 2014, 5:3357.
Chen C, Chen H, Shan JX, Zhu MZ, Shi M, Gao JP*, Lin HX*. Genetic and physiological analysis of a novel type of interspecific hybrid weakness in rice. Molecular Plant, 2013, 6:716-728.
Chen C, Xiao YG, Li X, Ni M*. Light-regulated stomatal aperture in Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant, 2012, 5:566-572.
其他参与发表的论文
Miao J, Li X, Li X, Tan W, You A, Wu S, Tao Y, Chen C, Wang J, Zhang D, Gong Z, Yi C, Yang Z, Gu M, Liang G, Zhou Y. OsPP2C09, a negative regulatory factor in abscisic acid signalling, plays an essential role in balancing plant growth and drought tolerance in rice. New Phytologist. 2020; 227:1417-1433.
Sharma S, Chen C, Khatri K, Rathore MS, Pandey SP. Gracilaria dura extract confers drought tolerance in wheat by modulating abscisic acid homeostasis. Plant Physiol Biochem. 2019; 136:143-154.
Sharma S, Chen C, Navathe S, Chand R, Pandey SP. A halotolerant growth promoting rhizobacteria triggers induced systemic resistance in plants and defends against fungal infection. Scientific Reports. 2019;9:4054.
Kang X, Xu G, Lee B, Chen C, Zhang H, Kuang R, Ni M*. HRB2 and BBX21 interaction modulates Arabidopsis ABI5 locus and stomatal aperture. Plant Cell & Environment, 2018, 41:1912-1925.
Liu S, Xue C, Fang Y, Chen G, Peng X, Zhou Y, Chen C, Liu G, Gu M, Wang K, Zhang W, Wu Y, Gong Z*. Global involvement of lysine crotonylation in protein modification and transcription regulation in rice. Molecular & Cell Proteomics, 2018, in press.
Xue C, Liu S, Chen C, Zhu J, Yang X, Zhou Y, Guo R, Liu X, Gong Z*. Global Proteome Analysis Links Lysine Acetylation to Diverse Functions in Oryza Sativa. Proteomics, 2018,18:**.
招生专业：作物遗传育种、植物生物技术
研究方向：水稻种子发育的遗传调控，表观遗传调控胚乳发育的作用机制
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