Congcong JIANG
About
CJ is currently an Associate Professor and supervisor of Master students at the Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, in Beijing, China. CJ has the educational background in biology (BSc) and developmental biology (PhD) from Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, China. CJ had the PhD thesis focusing on genetic dissection of quantitative trait loci controlling the oil content in rapeseed (Brassica napus), in which an integrative analysis had been done to reveal the consensus QTLs across multiple populations. In addition, CJ carried out comparative mapping of molecular markers between the A-subgenomes in Brassica napus and Brassica rapa, in order to reveal the evolutionary conservation and differentiation on chromosomal level. After PhD, CJ went to UK as family companion. There CJ was employed as a research assistant in the Crop Genetic Department in John-Innes-Center, participating in project aiming at dissection of the genetic resilience to climatic changes in wheat germplasms. When came back to China, CJ became a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. There CJ focused on cloning of a heat-tolerence locus from common wheat, which attributing to structural variation at the target region. Then CJ joined the Barley Gene Resources group in the Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, working on genetic and genomic dissection of agronomic important traits in barley. There CJ had the major project of discovering new resistant genes against barley yellow mosaic virus disease, through combining of genome-wide association study, traditonal bi-parental mapping and genotyping-by-sequencing. CJ also a main contributor to the development of the barley HTX mutagenesis population and it related high-throughput TILLING platform. With this panel of genetic resource, CJ rapidly cloned a number of novel genes affecting morphogenesis and architecture of barley plant.