Education

Ph.D., Genetics Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, 2007

Current Position

Research Associate, Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Publications (since 2005)

1. Chen, S., Chronis, D. and Wang, X. (2013). The novel GrCEP12 peptide from the plant-parasitic nematode Globodera rostochiensis suppresses flg22-mediated PTI. Plant Signal Behav 8(9).
   
2. Chronis, D., Chen, S., Lu, S., Hewezi, T., Carpenter, S. C., Loria, R., Baum, T. J. and Wang, X. (2013). A ubiquitin carboxyl extension protein secreted from a plant-parasitic nematode Globodera rostochiensis is cleaved in planta to promote plant parasitism. Plant J 74(2): 185-196.
   
3. Jittayasothorn, Y., Chen, S., Wang, X. and Zhong, G. Y. (2011). Influences of Agrobacterium strains, plant genotypes, and tissue types on the induction of transgenic hairy roots in Vitis species. Vitis 50:107-114.
   
4. Lu, S. W.*, Chen, S.*, Wang, J., Yu, H., Chronis, D., Mitchum, M. G. and Wang, X. (2009). Structural and functional diversity of CLAVATA3/ESR (CLE)-like genes from the potato cyst nematode Globodera rostochiensis. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 22(9): 1128-1142.
   *These authors contributed equally to this work
   
5. Chen, S. Y., Wang, A. M., Li, W., Wang, Z. Y. and Cai, X. L. (2008). Establishing a gene trap system mediated by T-DNA (GUS) in rice. J Integr Plant Biol 50(6): 742-751.
   
6. Chen, S. Y., Wang, Z. Y. and Cai, X. L. (2007). OsRRM, a Spen-like rice gene expressed specifically in the endosperm. Cell Res 17(8): 713-721.
   
7. Wang, A. M., Chen, S. Y., Shen, G. Z., Wang, X. Q., Ju, D. H., Wang, Z. L., Wang, Z. Y. and Cai, X. L. (2005). [Establishment of promoter trapping system mediated by activator/dissociation (beta-glucuronidase) construction in rice]. Zhi Wu Sheng Li Yu Fen Zi Sheng Wu Xue Xue Bao 31(6): 575-580.