Education

Positions

• 2023 – Research Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, CUHK
• 2015 – 2023 Research Associate

Research Interests

• Organelle dynamics in developing pollens;
• Plastid transformation in Arabidopsis cotyledon;
• 3D electron microscopy, cryo-electron microscopy

Representative Publications

1. Liang, Z.*, Yeung, W.T., Ma, J., Mai, K.K.K., Liu, Z., Chong, Y.L.F., Cai, X. and Kang, B.H.*, 2022. Electron tomography of prolamellar bodies and their transformation into grana thylakoids in cryofixed Arabidopsis cotyledons. The Plant Cell. 34(10), pp.3830-3843.
2. Liang, Z., Zhu, N., Mai, K.K., Liu, Z., Tzeng, D., Osteryoung, K.W., Zhong, S., Staehelin, L.A. and Kang, B.H., 2018. Thylakoid-bound polysomes and a dynamin-related protein, FZL, mediate critical stages of the linear chloroplast biogenesis program in greening Arabidopsis cotyledons. The Plant Cell, 30(7), pp.1476-1495. (Highlighted by F1000 Prime as 2 stars article)
3. Zeng, Y. ¹, Liang, Z. ¹, Liu, Z. ¹, Li, B. ¹, Cui, Y., Gao, C., Shen, J., Wang, X., Zhao, Q., Zhuang, X., Erdmann, P.S., Wong, K.B., and Jiang, L., 2023. Recent advances in plant endomembrane research and new microscopical techniques. New Phytologist, 240(1), pp.41-60.
4. Qin, Z. ¹, Liang, Z. ¹, Wu, Y. ¹, Zhou, X., Xu, M., Jiang, L., Li, S. and Zhang, Y., 2023. Embryo sac development relies on symplastic signals from ovular integuments in Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal, 116(1), pp.161-172.
5. Gu, Y., Zebell, S.G., Liang, Z., Wang, S., Kang, B.H. and Dong, X., 2016. Nuclear pore permeabilization is a convergent signaling event in effector-triggered immunity. Cell, 166(6), pp.1526-1538.
6. Liang, Z., Zhang, T., Zhang, X., Zhang, J. and Zhao, C., 2015. An alkaloid and a steroid from the endophytic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus. Molecules, 20(1), pp.1424-1433.
7. Ma, J., Liang, Z., Zhao, J., Wang, P., Ma, W., Mai, K.K., Andrade, J.A.F., Zeng, Y., Grujic, N., Jiang, L. and Dagdas, Y., 2021. Friendly mediates membrane depolarization-induced mitophagy in Arabidopsis. Current Biology, 31(9), pp.1931-1944.
8. Wang, P., Liang, Z. and Kang, B.H., 2019. Electron tomography of plant organelles and the outlook for correlative microscopic approaches. New Phytologist, 223(4), pp.1756-1761.
9. Ye, H., Gao, J., Liang, Z., Lin, Y., Yu, Q., Huang, S. and Jiang, L., 2022. Arabidopsis ORP2A mediates ER-autophagosomal membrane contact sites and regulates PI3P in plant autophagy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(43), p.e2205314119.
10. Niu, F., Ji, C., Liang, Z., Guo, R., Chen, Y., Zeng, Y. and Jiang, L., 2022. ADP-ribosylation factor D1 modulates Golgi morphology, cell plate formation, and plant growth in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology, 190(2), pp.1199-1213.

(¹co-first author, *co-corresponding author)

Patents

China National Invention Patent:

1. ZL 201510405970.4;
2. ZL 201410022432.2;
3. ZL 201410022718.0;
4. ZL 201210039269.1;
5. ZL 201410022573.4.