Research Area

Structure and Function of Photosynthetic Membrane Proteins in Forage Grasses

Introduction

I received Bachelor's degree from Huangshan University in 2012 and Master's degree from Shenzhen University in 2015. In 2021, I obtained Ph.D. from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Subsequently, I conducted postdoctoral research at the Cryo-Electron Microscopy Center of Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). In March 2024, I returned to the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where I have served as Associate Researcher and subsequently promoted to Researcher (current position). My recent research focuses on the structure and function of photosynthetic membrane proteins in forage grasses under stress, aiming to improve their stress tolerance and photosynthetic capacity.

Publications

Shen LL#, Gao YZ#, Tang KL#, Qi RX, Fu LT, Chen JH, Wang WD, Ma XM, Li PY, Chen M, Kuang TY, Zhang X*, Shen J-R*, Wang PY*, Han GY* (2024) Structure of a unique PSII-Pcb tetrameric megacomplex in a chlorophyll d-containing cyanobacterium. Science Advances, 10, eadk7140.

Shen LL#, Tang KL#, Wang WD#, Wang C, Wu HJ, Mao ZY, An SY, Chang SH, Kuang TY, Shen J-R*, Han GY*, Zhang X* (2022) Architecture of the chloroplast PSI-NDH supercomplex in Hordeum vulgare. Nature, 601: 649-654.

Huang ZH#, Shen LL#, Wang WD, Mao ZY, Yi XH, Kuang TY, Shen J-R*, Zhang X*, Han GY* (2021) Structure of photosystem I-LHCI-LHCII from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in State 2. Nature Communications, 12: 1-14.

Shen LL#, Huang ZH#, Chang SH#, Wang WD, Wang JF, Kuang TY, Han GY*, Shen J-R*, Zhang X* (2019) Structure of a C2S2M2N2-type PSII-LHCII supercomplex from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(42): 21246-21255.