Yansheng Zhang
CURRENT ADDRESS:
National Research Council Canada | Plant Biotechnology Institute | 110 Gymnasium Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W9
Email:
Tel: (306) 975-5257 (Office)
Tel: (306) 373-3988 (Home)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCES
04/2008-Prensent Research Associate, National Research Council Canada, Plant Biotechnology Institute, Saskatoon, SK, S7NOW9, Canada
04/2006-03/2008 Postdoctoral fellow, National Research Council Canada, Plant Biotechnology Institute, Saskatoon, SK, S7NOW9, Canada
04/2005-03/2006 Postdoctoral fellow, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO, 63132, United States
09/ 2001-03/ 2005: Ph.D. Department of molecular and developmental biology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS:
Yansheng Zhang, Keat H. Teoh, Darwin W. Reed, Patrick S. Covello, Molecular
cloning and characterization of Dbr1, a 2-alkenal reductase from Artemisia annua. Botany, 2009, 87: 643-649.
Yansheng Zhang, Keat H. Teoh, Darwin W. Reed, Lies Maes, Alain Goossens, Douglas J.F. Olson, Andrew R.S. Ross, and Patrick S. Covello, The molecular cloning of artemisinic aldehyde Δ 11(13) reductase and its role in glandular trichome-dependent biosynthesis of artemisinin in Artemisia annua. J. Biol. Chem., 2008, 283 (31): 21501-21508.
Yansheng Zhang, Teoh, Keat, Reed, Darwin W., Olson, Douglas J.H., Andrew, Ross R.S., Covello, Patrick S. Nucleotide sequence encoding sesquiterpene double bond reductase. US Patent No 11977-98 (filed on Dec. 11/2008).
Zhang J, Subramanian S, Zhang Y, Yu O, Flavone synthases from Medicago truncatula are flavanone-2-hydroxylases and are important for nodulation. Plant Physiology, 2007, 144: 741-751.
Zhang Y, Liu ZH, Jia L, Peng ZL, Jaworski J, Wang XM, Jez J., Chen F, Yu O , Metabolic engineering of de novo biosynthesis of resveratrol in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and mammalian cells. Journal of American Chemistry Society. 2006, 128: 13030-13031. Featured in Chemical and Engineering News, 84 (Oct. 2, 2006): page 43.
Jun-Li Han, Hong Wang, He-Chun Ye, Yan Liu, Yan-sheng Zhang, High efficiency of genetic transformation and regeneration of Artemisia annua L. via Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated procedure, Plant Science, 2005, 168( 1): 73-80.
Yansheng Zhang, Benye Liu, Zhenqiu Li, Hong Wang, Hechun Ye, Guofeng Li, Junli Han, Molecular Cloning a classical plant peroxidase from A. annua and its effect on the biosynthesis of artemisinin in vitro, Acta Botanica Sinica, 2004, 46(11): 1338-1346.