Chunhua Zhang

Botany and Plant Pathology

Assistant Professor

Phone

765.496.3855

Fax

765.494.0363

Office

Lilly Hall Room B-470

zhang150@purdue.edu

Dr. Chunhua Zhang is interested in understanding the mechanisms of plant endomembrane trafficking machinery and its regulation by signaling transduction pathways. She takes advantage of chemical biology tools and combines them with cell biology approaches to study the highly dynamic and tightly regulated trafficking process. Chemical biology tools help her overcome the disadvantages of genetic knockout mutants, which include mutant lethality and genetic redundancy, in studying the dynamic trafficking process.

Dr. Zhang is currently recruiting talented individuals who are interested in plant cell biology, especially in the subject of endomembrane trafficking. Please contact Dr. Chunhua Zhang, at zhang150@purdue.edu or 765-496-3855 if you would like to know more information about her ongoing projects.

Selected Publications

Zhang, C., Kotchoni, S. O., Samuels, A. L., & Szymanski, D. B. (2010). SPIKE1 Signals Originate from and Assemble Specialized Domains of theEndoplasmic Reticulum. CURRENT BIOLOGY, 20(23), 2144-2149. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2010.11.016

Zhang, C., Mallery, E. L., Schlueter, J., Huang, S., Fan, Y., Brankle, S., . . . Szymanski, D. B. (2008). Arabidopsis SCARs function interchangeably to meet actin-related protein2/3 activation thresholds during morphogenesis. PLANT CELL, 20(4), 995-1011. doi:10.1105/tpc.107.055350

Zhang, C., He, X., Yang, Y., Xu, C., & Liu, G. (2006). Cloning and Expression Analysis of GhMAP1-LC3 Gene from Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Acta Agronomica Sinica, 32(9), 1402-1405.

Zhang, C., Mallery, E. L., Le, J., Brankle, S., & Szymanski, D. B. (2006). Arabidopsis BRICK1/HSPC300 is an essential WAVE-complex subunit that selectively stabilizes the Arp2/3 activator SCAR2. Curr Biol, 16(9), 895-901.

Zhang, C., Mallery, E. L., Basu, D., Le, J., Essal, E., Sel, D., . . . Koliantz, G. (2005). DISTORTED3/SCAR2 is a putative arabidopsis WAVE complex subunit that activates the Arp2/3 complex and is required for epidermal morphogenesis. Plant Cell, 17(2), 502-524.

Zhang, C., Yang, Y., & Xu, C. (2003). Molecular Mechanisms of Cotton Fiber Quality Formation. Crop Cultivation and Physiology.

Zhang, C., Qin, Z., Yang, Y., Xu, C., & Zhai, Z. (2003). Cloning and Analysis of cDNA Related to the Genes of Secondary Wall Thickening of Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Fiber. Acta Agronomica Sinica, 29(6), 860-866.

Zhang, C., Hicks, G. R., & Raikhel, N. V. (2015). Molecular Composition of Plant Vacuoles: Important but Less Understood Regulations and Roles of Tonoplast Lipids. Plants, 4, 320-333.

Zhang, C., Brown, M. Q., Van de Ven, W., Zhang, Z. M., Wu, B., Young, M. C., . . . Raikhel, N. V. (2015). Endosidin2 Targets Conserved EXO70 to Inhibit Exocytosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci Usa.

Zhang, C., Hicks, G. R., & Raikhel, N. V. (2014). Plant Vacuole Morphology and Vacuolar Trafficking. Front. Plant Sci, 5, 476. doi:10.3389/fpls.2014.00476