Curriculum vitae
Name: Fanjiang Kong
Languages: Chinese, English, Japanese
Academic degree: Ph. D of Agr., Hokkaido University, Japan
Current Mailing Address: Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,138 Haping Road, Nangang District, Harbin, 150081, P.R.China
E-mail: kongfj@neigaeharb.ac.cn
STUDY EXPERIENCES:
1993-1997: Bsc of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China.
1999-1999: Visiting Scholar, Danisco Seed, Holeby & Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Flakkebjerg, Denmark.
1999-2002: Msc of Crop Breeding and Genetics, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China.
2003-2006: Ph.D of Applied Bioscience, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
CAREER:
1997-2000: Assistant professor, Sugar Beet & Sugar Industry Research Institute, Harbin, China
2000-2003: Assistant professor, Soybean Research Institute, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China.
2006-2008: Postdoctoral fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
2008-2009: Research Assistant, National Institute of Crop Science, Tsukuba, Japan
2009-2010: Research Assistant, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
2010-present: Professor, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, China
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Identification of genes regulating soybean flower time and maturity by QTL and fine mapping
- Soybean genetic transformation for gene functional elucidation and molecular breeding
- Molecular design and breeding of high quality seed constituents by marker assisted selection
AWARDS
1. Award of the Japan Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry Society, 2007, Japan
2. Award of Sapporo Agriculture Promotion Society for excellent graduate student, 2006, Japan
3. Award of Sanseido Bookstore Program for excellent foreign student, 2006, Japan
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS:
1. Fanjiang Kong, Baohui Liu, Zhengjun Xia, Shusei Sato, Bomin Kim, Satoshi Watanabe, Tetsuya Yamada, Satoshi Tabata, Akira Kanazawa, Kyuya Harada, Jun Abe，Two Coordinately Regulated Homologs of Flowering Locus T are involved in the Control of Photoperiodic Flowering in Soybean, Plant Physiology154(11): 1220-1231
2. Takuro Shinano, Setsuko Komatsu, Tomoko Yoshimura, Shunji Tokutake, Fan-Jiang Kong, Toshihiro Watanabe, Jun Wasaki, Mitsuru Osaki，(2011) Proteomic analysis of secreted proteinsfrom aseptically grown rice,Phytochemistry 72(4-5):312-320
3. Xun Wang, Tetsuya Yamada, Fan-Jiang Kong, Yuki Abe, Yoichiro Hoshino, Hiroko Sato, Tadashi Takamizo, Akira Kanazawa, Toshihiko Yamada, Establishment of an efficient in vitro culture and particle bombardment-mediated transformation systems in Miscanthus sinensis Anderss., a potential bioenergy crop, Global Change Biology Bioenergy(accepted)
4. Baohui liu, Satoshi Watanabe, Tomoo Uchiyama, Fanjiang Kong, Akira Kanazawa, Zhengjun Xia, Atsuhi Nagamatsu, Maiko Arai, Tetsuya Yamada, Keisuke Kitamura, Chikara Masuta, Kyuya Harada, Jun Abe, (2010) Soybean stem growth habit gene Dt1 is an orthologue of Arabidopsis TFL1, Plant Physiology 153(5): 198-210.
5. Fan-Jiang Kong, Atsushi Oyanagi and Setsuko Komatsu, (2010) Cell wall proteomics of wheat roots under flooding stress using gel-based and LC MS/MS-based proteomics approaches, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1804(2): 124-136.
6. Akira Kanazawa, Baohui Liu, Fanjiang Kong, SachikoArase and Jun Abe, (2009) Adaptive evolution involving gene duplication and insertion of a novel Ty1/copia-like retrotransposon in soybean. Journal of Molecular Evolution，69(2):164-175.
7. Fan-Jiang Kong, Ying Li, Jun Abe, Baohui Liu, Florian Schaller,Markus Piotrowski, Shungo Otagaki, Kosaku Takahashi, Hideyuki Matsuura, Teruhiko Yoshihara, and Kensuke Nabeta, (2009) Expression of Allene Oxide Cyclase fromPharbitis nil upon Theobroxide Treatment, Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry,73(5): 1007-1013.
8. Kyong-Hee Nam, Fanjiang Kong,Hideyuki Matsuura, Kosaku Takahashi, Kensuke Nabeta and Teruhiko Yoshihara. (2008) Temperature regulates tuber-inducing lipoxygenase-derived metabolites in potato (Solanum tuberosum). Journal of Plant Physiology, 165(2): 233-238.
9. Fanjiang Kong†, Xiquan Gao, Kyong-Hee Nam, Kosaku Takahashi, Hideyuki Matsuura and Teruhiko Yoshihara. (2006) Inhibition of stem elongation in spinach by theobroxide. Journal of Plant Physiology, 163 (5): 557-561.
10. Xiquan Gao, Fanjiang Kong, Fang Wang, Hideyuki Matsuura and Teruhiko Yoshihara. (2006) Inhibitory role of gibberellins in theobroxide-induced flowering of Pharbitis nil. Journal of Plant Physiology, 163 (4): 398-404.
11. Fanjiang Kong,Jun Abe, Kosaku Takahashi, Hideyuki Matsuura, Teruhiko Yoshihara and Kensuke Nabeta. (2005) Allene oxide cyclase is essential for theobroxide-induced jasmonic acid biosynthesis in Pharbitis nil. Biochemistry Biophysics Research Communication,336 (4): 1150-1156.
12. Fanjiang Kong, Xiquan Gao, Kyong-Hee Nam, Kosaku Takahashi, Hideyuki Matsuura and Teruhiko Yoshihara. (2005) Theobroxide inhibits stem elongation in Pharbitis nil byregulating jasmonic acid and gibberellin biosynthesis. Plant Science, 169 (4): 721-725.
13. Kyong-Hee Nam, Chisato Minami, Fanjiang Kong, Hideyuki Matsuura, Kosaku Takahashi and Teruhiko Yoshihara. (2005) Relation between environmental factors and the LOX activities upon potato tuber formation and flower-bud formation in morning glory. Plant Growth Regulation, 46 (3): 253-260.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
1. Fanjiang Kong. Functional analysis of the genes of jasmonic acid in plant morphogenesis. Award presentation of Japan Society of Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry, 2007, Sapporo.
2. Fanjiang Kong,Kosaku Takahashi, Jun Abe, Hideyuki Matsuura, Teruhiko Yoshihara and Kensuke Nabeta. Identification and characterization of an allene oxide cyclase in Pharbitis nil induced by theobroxide. Presentation in the Conference of Japan Society of Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry. 2007, Tokyo.
3. Fanjiang Kong,Jun Abe, Kosaku Takahashi, Hideyuki Matsuura, Teruhiko Yoshihara and Kensuke Nabeta. Allene oxide cyclase plays an essential role in theobroxide-induced jasmonic acid accumulation in Pharbitis nil. Presentation in the Conference of Japan Society of Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry. 2006, Kyoto.
4. Fanjiang Kong, Xiquan Gao, Kosaku Takahashi, Hideyuki Matsuura and Teruhiko Yoshihara. Involvement of jasmonic acid in the control of theobroxide-inhibited stem elongation in Pharbitis nil. Presentation in the Conference of Japan Society of Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry. 2005, Sapporo.
5. Fanjiang Kong, Xiquan Gao, Hideyuki Matsuura and Teruhiko Yoshihara. Inhibition of stem elongation in spinach by theobroxide. Presentation in the Conference of Japan Society of Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry. 2004, Fukuoka.
