Zhao Jindong

Professor, School of Life Sciences, Peking University

Email:  jzhao@pku.edu.cn

Research Areas

1.Our Research focus on the mechanisms of photosynthesis and electron transfer as well as heterocyst differentiation and pattern formation in cyanobacteria, especially on the signal transduction and gene transcriptional regulation in the heterocyst differentiation process.

2.By now a lot of important genes have been isolated, such as hetR, hetN, patS and ccbp, all of which play key roles in the regulation of heterocyst formation.

Selected Publications

Zheng L, Zheng ZG, Li XY, Wang GP, Zhang K, Wei PJ, Zhao JD, Gao N. (2021) Structural insight into the mechanism of energy transfer in cyanobacterial phycobilisomes. Nat. Commun., 12: 5497.

Shao XN, Lu Q, Xiong MY, Bu HL, Shi XY, Wang DJ, Zhao JD, Li S, Yao M. (2021) Prey partitioning and livestock consumption in the world’s richest large carnivore assemblage. Curr. Biol., 31: 4887-4897.

Shao XN, Lu Q, Liu MZ, Xiong MY, Bu HL, Wang DJ, Liu SY, Zhao JD, Li S, Yao M. (2021) Generalist carnivores can be effective biodiversity samplers of terrestrial vertebrates. Front. Ecol. Environ., 9: 557-563.

Zheng YT, Zhang S, Lu Q, Zhang SY, Wang LJ, Hong ML, Nguyen T, Zhao JD, Yao M. (2021) Population genetic patterns of a mangrove-associated frog reveal its colonization history and habitat connectivity. Divers. Distrib., 27: 1584-1600.

Lu Q, Xiao LY, Cheng C, Lu Z, Zhao JD, Yao M. (2021) Snow leopard dietary preferences and livestock predation revealed by fecal DNA metabarcoding: no evidence for apparent competition between wild and domestic prey. Front. Ecol. Evol., 9: 783546.

Zhang S, Zhao JD, Yao M (2020) A comprehensive and comparative evaluation of primers for metabarcoding eDNA from fish. Methods Ecol. Evol., 11: 1609-1625.

Liu X, Yang MK, Liu YF, Ge F, Zhao JD (2020) Structural and functional insights into a lysine deacylase in the cyanobacteriumSynechococcussp. PCC 7002. Plant Physiol., 184: 762-776.

Zheng LQ, Li YB, Li XY, Zhong QL, Li NN, Zhang K, Zhang YB, Chu HY, Ma CY, Li GH,Zhao JD, Gao N. (2019) Structural and functional insights into the tetrameric photosystem I from heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria.Nat. Plant, 5: 1087-1097.

Liu X, Yang MK, Wang Y, Chen Z, Zhang J, Lin XH, Ge F,Zhao JD. (2018) Effects of PSII Manganese-Stabilizing Protein Succinylation on Photosynthesis in the Model Cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp PCC 7002.Plant Cell Physiol., 59: 1466-1482.

Li Q, Lin F, Yang C, Wang J, Lin Y, Shen M, Park MS, Li T, Zhao JD. (2018) A Large-Scale Comparative Metagenomic Study Reveals the Functional Interactions in Six Bloom-Forming Microcystis-Epibiont Communities.Front Microbiol., 9:746.

Wang J, Wang C, Li JH, Bai P, Li Q, Shen MY, Li RH, Li T,Zhao JD. (2018) Comparative genomics of degradative Novosphingobium strains with special reference to the microcystin-degrading Novosphingobium sp. THN1. Front Microbiol., 9: 2238.

Zheng ZG, Omairi-Nasser A, Li XY, Dong CX, Lin Y, Haselkorn R, Zhao JD. (2017) An amidase is required for proper intercellular communication in the filamentous cyanobacterium  Anabaena sp. PCC 7120.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 114: E1405-E1412.