1. Plant suspension cell factory for plant natural products

2. Mechanism of horizontal gene transfer in microbe and its application research

2008-2014，Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences，China, Ph. D. 

2014-2019，Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology，Germany, Postdoctor

2019-，Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Investigator

1.  Yu J; Wang X; Yuan Q; Shi J; Cai J; Li ZC*, Ma H* (2023) Elucidating the impact of in vitro cultivation on Nicotiana tabacum metabolism through combined in silico modeling and multiomics analysis. Frontiers in plant science 14:1281348. (*: corresponding author)

2.  Zhu X, Liu X, Liu T, Wang Y, Ahmed N, Li ZC*, Jiang HF* (2021) Synthetic biology of plant natural products: From pathway elucidation to engineered biosynthesis in plant cells. Plant Communications 2, 100229.

3.  Li ZC, Bock R (2019) Rapid functional activation of a horizontally transferred eukaryotic gene in a bacterial genome in the absence of selection. Nucleic Acids Research (IF: 11.561) doi: 10.1093/nar/gkz370.

4.  Li ZC, Bock R (2018) Replication of bacterial plasmids in the nucleus of the red alga Porphyridium purpureum. Nature Communications (IF: 12.353) 9, 3451.

5.  Li ZC, He CY. (2015) Physalis floridana Cell Number Regulator1 encodes a cell membrane-anchored modulator of cell cycle and negatively controls fruit size. Journal of Experimental Botany (IF: 5.354) 66, 257–270.

6.  Zhang JS#, Li ZC#, Zhao J, Zhang SH, Quan H, Zhao M, He CY (2014) Deciphering the Physalis floridana Double-Layered-Lantern1 mutant provides insights into functional divergence of the GLOBOSA duplicates within the Solanaceae. Plant Physiology (IF: 5.949) 164, 748–764. (#: co-1st author)