报告题目：木糖代谢和细胞壁合成

　　报 告 人：曾为（Wei Zeng） 博士

　　工作单位：澳大利亚墨尔本大学

　　报告时间：2017年12月8日（星期五）上午9：00

　　报告地点：生物楼415会议室

　　报告人简介：

　　Wei Zeng, Ph.D.

　　Education:

　　1997.09-2001.07：B.S. College of Biological Sciences, Beijing Normal University, China

　　2004.01-2009.09：Ph.D. in Molecular Cellular Biology, Department of Environmental and Plant Sciences, The Ohio University, USA

　　Employment:

　　2009.11-2010.11 Postdoc, Penn State University

　　Supervisor: Marcia Buanafina, Senior research fellow

　　2011.2-present Research Fellow, Project Leader, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls, School of BioSciences, the University of Melbourne

　　Supervisor: Tony Bacic, Professor, FAA

　　Awards:

　　Second prize for the Research & Creativity Expo at Ohio University 2008; 2009

　　Publications (selected):

　　1.Zeng W, Chatterjee M, Faik A. UDP-xylose-stimulated glucuronyltransferase activity in wheat microsomal membranes: Characterization and role in glucurono(arabino)xylan biosynthesis. Plant Physiology 2008, 147: 78-91.

　　2.Zeng W, Jiang N, Nadella R, Killen TL, Nadella V, Faik A. A glucurono(arabino)xylan synthase complex from wheat contains members of the GT43, GT47, and GT75 families and functions cooperatively. Plant Physiology 2010, 154: 78-97.

　　3.Zeng W, Lampugnani ER, Picard KL, Song L, Wu AM, Farion IM, Zhao J, Ford K, Doblin MS, Bacic A. Asparagus IRX9, IRX10, and IRX14A are components of an active xylan backbone synthase complex that forms in the Golgi apparatus. Plant Physiology 2016, 171: 93-109.

　　4.Zeng W, Ebert B, Parsons H, Rautengarten C, Bacic A, Heazlewood J. Enrichment of Golgi Membranes from Triticum aestivum (Wheat) Seedlings. Methods in Molecular Biology 2017, 1511: 131-150.

　　5.Suzuki T, Narciso J, Zeng W, van de Meene A, Yasutomi M, Takemura S, Lampugnani ER, Doblin MS, Bacic A, Ishiguro S. KNS4/UPEX1: A type II arabinogalactan β-(1,3)-Galactosyltransfe rase required for pollen exine development. Plant Physiology 2017, 173: 183-205.

　　6.Qin LX, Chen Y, Zeng W, Li Y, Gao L, Li DD, Bacic A, Xu WL, Li XB. The cotton β-galactosyltransferase 1 (GalT1) that galactosylates arabinogalactan-proteins participates in controlling fiber development. Plant Journal 2017, 89: 957-971.

　　7.Ebert B, Rautengarten C, McFarlane H, Rupasinghe T, Zeng W, Ford K, Scheller HV, Bacic A, Roessner U, Persson S, Heazlewood JL. A single UDP-GlcNAc transporter is required for lumenal N-acetyl glycosylation of N-glycans and sphingolipids. Nature Plants (Under revision).