2019.5 – 至今 中国农业大学，农学院， 副教授

2013.12 – 2019.4  Texas A&M University，Biochemistry and Biophysics，博士后

2011.11 – 2013.12 北京生命科学研究所，博士后

2003.9 – 2010.7 中科院遗传与发育生物学研究所， 发育生物学，博士

1999.9 – 2003.7 武汉大学，学士

玉米籽粒发育的调控网络研究

玉米蛋白品质的分子遗传学研究

1. Ma ZY and Zhang XR. Actions of Plant Argonautes: Predictable or unpredictable? Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 45, 59-67. (2018)

2. Ma ZY, Castillo-Gonzalez C, Wang ZY, et.al. Arabidopsis Serrate Coordinates Histone Methyltransferases ATXR5/6 and RNA Processing Factor RDR6 to Regulate Transposon Expression. Developmental Cell. 45, 769-784. (2018) (F1000 recommended)

3. Zhang H*, Ma ZY*, Zeng L, Tanaka K, Zhang CJ, Ma J, Bai G, Wang P, Zhang SW, Liu ZW, Cai T, Tang K, Liu R, Shi X, He XJ, Zhu JK. DTF1 is a core component of RNA-directed DNA methylation and may assist in the recruitment of Pol IV. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA. 2013; 110(20):8290-5. (*, equal contribution)

4. Wang ZY, Ma ZY*, Castillo-Gonzalez C*, et.al. SWI2/SNF2 ATPase CHR2 remodels pri-miRNAs via SE to impede miRNA production. Nature. 2018 May;557 (*, equal contribution)

5. X. Guo, Z. Ma, Z. Zhang, L. Cheng, X. Zhang, T. Li, Small RNA-Sequencing Links Physiological Changes and RdDM Process to Vegetative-to-Floral Transition in Apple. Frontiers in plant science 8, 873 (2017).

6. Z. Zhang*, X. Guo*, C. Ge*, Z. Ma, M. Jiang, T. Li, H. Koiwa, S. W. Yang, X. Zhang, KETCH1 imports HYL1 to nucleus for miRNA biogenesis in Arabidopsis. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA. 114, 4011-4016 (2017).

7. Castillo-Gonzalez, X. Liu, C. Huang, C. Zhao, Z. Ma, T. Hu, F. Sun, Y. Zhou, X. Zhou, X. J. Wang, X. Zhang, Geminivirus-encoded TrAP suppressor inhibits the histone methyltransferase SUVH4/KYP to counter host defense. eLife 4, e06671 (2015).

8. He XJ, Ma ZY, Liu ZW. Non-coding RNA transcription and RNA-directed DNA methylation in Arabidopsis. Mol Plant. 2014; 7(9):1406-14.

9. Ning YQ, Ma ZY, Huang HW, Mo H, Zhao TT, Li L, Cai T, Chen S, Ma L, He XJ. Two novel NAC transcription factors regulate gene expression and flowering time by associating with the histone demethylase JMJ14. Nucleic Acids Res. 2015; 43(3):1469-84.

10. Zhou HR*, Zhang FF*, Ma ZY, Huang HW, Jiang L, Cai T, Zhu JK, Zhang C, He XJ. Folate polyglutamylation is involved in chromatin silencing by maintaining global DNA methylation and histone H3K9 dimethylation in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 2013; 25(7):2545-59.

11. Zhang CJ*, Zhou JX*, Liu J*, Ma ZY, Zhang SW, Dou K, Huang HW, Cai T, Liu R, Zhu JK, He XJ. The splicing machinery promotes RNA-directed DNA methylation and transcriptional silencing in Arabidopsis. EMBO J. 2013; 32(8):1128-40.

12. Dou K*, Huang CF*, Ma ZY, Zhang CJ, Zhou JX, Huang HW, Cai T, Tang K, Zhu JK, He XJ. The PRP6-like splicing factor STA1 is involved in RNA-directed DNA methylation by facilitating the production of Pol V-dependent scaffold RNAs. Nucleic Acids Res. 2013;41(18):8489-502.

13. Huang CF, Miki D, Tang K, Zhou HR, Zheng Z, Chen W, Ma ZY, Yang L, Zhang H, Liu R, He XJ, Zhu JK. A Pre-mRNA-splicing factor is required for RNA-directed DNA methylation in Arabidopsis. PLoS Genet. 2013; 9(9):e1003779.