Latest Updates
News
Apr 2023
Croucher Summer Course 2023 is now opened for registration
Jul 2021
Prof. Jiang Liwen was awarded as 2021/22 RGC Senior Research Fellow
Jan 2022
A biotech breakthrough unlocking the secrets of stress-resistant crops
Aug 2022
Unlocking plant genetic codes to resist climate change
Highlights
Prof. Randy Schekman was invited to our 8th AoE Symposium on “Organelle Biogenesis and Function”
Prof. Jiang has produced over 70 teaching videos which have been used in various undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
RGC-AoE Centre for Organelle Biogenesis and Function.
AoE/CCDB Zoom Seminar Series 2022
Recent Publications
A century journey of organelles research in the plant endomembrane system (Plant Cell, Zhuang et al., 2024)
Autophagosome biogenesis for organelle homeostasis in plant cells (Plant Cell, Zhuang et al., 2024)
FREE1 regulates phagophore closure in plants (Autophagy, Zhu et al., 2024)
Phase Separation and Biomolecular Condensate Formation Drives Plant Endomembrane and Autophagy Crosstalk (Journal of Experimental Botany, Chiamaka Linda Mgbechidinma et al., 2025)
Seeing is believing: Whole-cell electron tomography models of vacuole morphology and formation in the early-stage root cortex of Arabidopsis (The Plant Cell, Cui et al.,2025)
The seven rice vacuolar sorting receptors localize to prevacuolar compartments (Elsevier, Yang & Jiang, 2023)
Studying plant autophagy: challenges and recommended methodologies (Advanced Biotechnology, Qi et al., 2023)
The plant-unique protein DRIF1 coordinates with sorting nexin 1 to regulate membrane protein homeostasis (Plant Cell, Zhu et al., 2023)
Annoucements
The Croucher Summer Course 2023 is now opened for registration.
Registration
The Croucher Summer Course 2023 will be held from July 10-14, 2023. All postgraduate students of Life Science are welcome to register for the event. Details: https://icell.sls.cuhk.edu.hk/csc2023