Education

Ph.D. in Microbiology, University of California Riverside, 2006

Current position

Professor, College of Horticulture and forestry sciences, Hua Zhong Agriculture University, Wuhan, China, Jan 2013- present. Lab webpage: http://www.lifenglab.org/

Publications (since 2005)

1. Li, F., Pignatta, D., Bendix, C., Brunkard, J. O., Cohn, M. M., Tung, J., Sun, H., Kumar, P. and Baker, B. (2012). MicroRNA regulation of plant innate immune receptors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109(5): 1790-1795.
2. Li, F.*, Orban, R. and Baker, B.* (2012). SoMART: a web server for plant miRNA, tasiRNA and target gene analysis. The Plant Journal 70(5): 891-901. (*Co-corresponding author)
3. Kuang, H.*, Padmanabhan, C.*, Li, F.*, Kamei, A., Bhaskar, P. B., Ouyang, S., Jiang, J., Buell, C. R. and Baker, B. (2009). Identification of miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) and biogenesis of their siRNAs in the Solanaceae: new functional implications for MITEs. Genome Research 19(1): 42-56. (*Equal contribution)
   
4. Aliyari, R., Wu, Q., Li, H. W., Wang, X. H., Li, F., Green, L. D., Han, C. S., Li, W. X. and Ding, S. W. (2008). Mechanism of induction and suppression of antiviral immunity directed by virus-derived small RNAs in Drosophila. Cell Host Microbe 4(4): 387-397.
5. Diaz-Pendon, J. A., Li, F., Li, W.-X. and Ding, S.-W. (2007). Suppression of antiviral silencing by cucumber mosaic virus 2b protein in Arabidopsis is associated with drastically reduced accumulation of three classes of viral small interfering RNAs. The Plant Cell Online 19(6): 2053-2063.
6. Li, F. and Ding, S. W. (2006). Virus counterdefense: diverse strategies for evading the RNA-silencing immunity. Annu Rev Microbiol 60: 503-531.
7. Lu, R., Maduro, M., Li, F., Li, H. W., Broitman-Maduro, G., Li, W. X. and Ding, S. W. (2005). Animal virus replication and RNAi-mediated antiviral silencing in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 436(7053): 1040-1043.
8. Khaled, A., Guo, S., Li, F. and Guo, P. (2005). Controllable self-assembly of nanoparticles for specific delivery of multiple therapeutic molecules to cancer cells using RNA nanotechnology. Nano Lett 5(9): 1797-1808.