Research Interests (300 words)
During my PhD life, I used genetic encoded calcium sensor YC3.6 to identify important molecules to regulate plant development and signaling. In the plant mechanosensing project, I have been able to screen a RLK family in Arabidopsis by monitoring extracellular change, and one mutant feronia showed several defects of mechanosensitive phenotypes. fer also showed an abnormal touch- and bending-induced Ca2+ and pH signaling. In my second project, I screened CNGC ion channel and found out CNGC14 is playing an important role to modulate gravity- and auxin-induced Ca2+ response which is a mysterious question since 1935. In my postdoc research, I switched from plant to giardia which has been considered as an ancient eukaryote in phylogenetic tree, and I am focusing on the role of giardia Ca2+ signaling in many aspects.