JIANG Liwen
Prof. Jiang joined CUHK Biology as an Assistant Professor in 2000 and was promoted as Professor in 2007. Professor Jiang is currently Choh-Ming Li Professor of Life Sciences of School of Life Sciences and Director of RGC-AoE Centre for Organelle Biogenesis and Function, and Centre for Cell and Developmental Biology. rofessor Jiang’s research team has been working on the underlying mechanisms of protein transport, organelle biogenesis and function in plants for 21 years at CUHK, and has been internationally recognized as a leading group in the field.
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)
Recent advances in plant endomembrane research and new microscopical techniques (New Phytologist, Zeng et al., 2023)
Arabidopsis AUTOPHAGY-RELATED2 is essential for ATG18a and ATG9 trafficking during autophagosome closure (Plant Physiology, Luo et al., 2023)
Embryo sac development relies on symplastic signals from ovular integuments in Arabidopsis (The Plant Journal, Qin et al., 2023)
A distinct linker mediating ER-autophagosome membrane contact site (EACS) in plants (Autophagy,Ye et al., 2023)
Ufmylation bridges autophagy and ER homeostasis in plants (Autophagy, Li & Jiang, 2023)
The plant unique ESCRT component FREE1 regulates autophagosome closure (Nature Communications,Zeng et al.,2023)
In vitro reconstitution of COPII vesicles from Arabidopsis thaliana suspension-cultured cells (Nature Protocols, Li et al., 2023)
Ufmylation reconciles salt stress-induced unfolded protein responses via ER-phagy in Arabidopsis (PNAS,Li et al.,2023)
The Arabidopsis ORP2A Mediates ER-Autophagosomal Membrane Contact Sites and Regulates PI3P in Plant Autophagy (PNAS, Ye et al., 2022)
ADP-ribosylation factor D1 modulates Golgi morphology, cell plate formation, and plant growth in Arabidopsis (Plant Physiology, Niu et al., 2022)
VAMP724 and VAMP726 are involved in autophagosome formation in Arabidopsis thaliana (Autophagy, He et al., 2022)
The plant ESCRT component FREE1 regulates peroxisome-mediated turnover of lipid droplets in germinating Arabidopsis seedlings (Plant Cell, Huang et al., 2022)
COPII vesicles in plant autophagy and endomembrane trafficking (FEBS Letters, Li et al., 2022)
Correlation of vacuole morphology with stomatal lineage development by whole-cell electron tomography (Plant Physiology, Cao et al., 2022)
A Unique COPII Population in Plant Autophagy (Autophagy, Zeng et al., 2021)
A distinct giant coat protein complex II vesicle population in Arabidopsis thaliana (Nature Plants, Li et al., 2021)
