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Big congrats on Xingxing and Changhao’s excellent work on re-constructing plant miRNA production Altas (Nature Plants)

July 10, 2024 by xiuren.zhang

Big Congrats on Tianru’s successful defense on her dissertation! Excellent work, Dr. Zhang (new one)!

February 29, 2024 by xiuren.zhang

Congrats on Tianru, Changhao and Jiaying’s paper in Genome Biology

February 26, 2024 by xiuren.zhang

Congrats on Dr Shang’s review in Trends in Genetics!

February 26, 2024 by xiuren.zhang

Congrats on Zhen’s interesting paper on H3.1K27me1 and virus resistance in Nature Communications

December 18, 2023 by xiuren.zhang

We are studying RNA silencing in the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana and several economically-important crops.

RNA silencing is a key regulatory process that controls various aspects of biology in eukaryotes including growth and development, antiviral defense and chromosome gardening. The common themes under RNA silencing include the biogenesis of small RNAs by DICERs or Dicer-like proteins and the incorporation of the small RNAs into Argonaute (AGO)-centered RNA-induced silencing complexes (RISCs).