主要研究领域：
植物生殖发育领域，主要研究受精与早期胚胎发生的分子机制，在受精后合子基因组激活的时间进程、及早期胚胎的基因表达与调控机制方面有系统的研究，包括：1）首次从整个基因组层面证实植物合子基因组激活（Zygotic Genome Activation，ZGA）发生于刚受精的合子；2）揭示SUMO家族蛋白修饰因子DSUL控制早期胚胎细胞分裂的分子机制；3）系统性研究单子叶/禾本科模式植物玉米从合子到过渡期的胚胎对激素的应答，发现单子叶植物特有的指导胚胎生长和分化的机制，揭示来自母体和胚乳的生长素调控早期胚胎模式建成。
代表性论文：
1. Junyi Chen, Kamila Kalinowska, Benedikt Müller, Julia Mergner, Rainer Deutzmann, Claus Schwechheimer, Ulrich Z. Hammes, and Thomas Dresselhaus (2018) DiSUMO-LIKE interacts with RNA-binding proteins and affects cell cycle progression during maize embryogenesis. Current Biology 28: 1548-1560.
2. Hélène S. Robert, Chulmin Park, Carla Loreto Guitérrez, Barbara Wójcikowska, Aleš Pěnčík, Ondřej Novák, Junyi Chen, Wim Grunewald, Thomas Dresselhaus, Jiří Friml and Thomas Laux (2018) Maternal auxin supply contributes to early embryo patterning in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants 4: 548-553.
3. Junyi Chen, Nicholas Strieder, Nadia G. Krohn, Philippe Cyprys, Stefanie Sprunck, Julia Engelmann, and Thomas Dresselhaus (2017) Zygotic genome activation occurs shortly after fertilization in maize. The Plant Cell 29: 2106-2125.
4. Junyi Chen, Caroline Gutjahr, Andrea Bleckmann and Thomas Dresselhaus (2015) Calcium signaling during reproductive and biotrophic fungal interactions. Molecular Plant 8: 595-611.
5. Yuan Liu, Xinbo Li, Jing Zhao, Xingchun Tang, Shujuan Tian, Junyi Chen, Ce Shi, Wei Wang, Liyao Zhang, Xianzhong Feng and Meng-Xiang Sun (2015) Direct evidence that suspensor cells have embryogenic potential that is suppressed by the embryo proper during normal embryogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 112: 12432-12437.
6. Junyi Chen, Andreas Lausser and Thomas Dresselhaus (2014) Hormonal responses during early embryogenesis in maize. Biochemical Society Transactions 42: 325-331.
7. Junyi Chen, Jing Zhao, Jue Ning, Yuan Liu, Jing Xu, Shujuan Tian and Meng-Xiang Sun (2014) NtProRP1, a novel proline-rich protein, is an osmotic stress-responsive factor and specifically functions in pollen tube growth and early embryogenesis in Nicotiana tabacum. Plant, Cell & Environment 37: 499-511.
8. Yu-Chi He, Junyi Chen, Jingzhe Guo, Meng-Xiang Sun and Hong-Yuan Yang (2006) A high-frequency in vivo-in vitro experimental system for embryogenesis study. Journal of Wuhan Botanical Research 24: 6-11.
招生招聘：
本实验室每年拟招收硕士研究生2名，博士研究生1名，招聘博士后1-2名，请将申请和简历发送到电子邮箱：junyi.chen@mail.ccnu.edu.cn。
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