Leiting Li

Leiting Li

Leiting Li is working on genomics and bioinformatics

About me

Leiting Li gained his B.S. (2010) and Ph.D. (2016) in Nanjing Agricultural University. Afterwards, he was a postdoc in CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences (CEMPS) from 2017 to 2022. Now, he is a research assistant in Lingang Laboratory. He is mainly working on genomics and bioinformatics.

Education

  • 2006.09 ~ 2010.06, B.S., Nanjing Agricultural University
  • 2010.09 ~ 2016.12, Ph.D., Nanjing Agricultural University
  • 2011.06 ~ 2012.07, Visiting student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Academic experience

  • 2017.01 ~ 2022.12, Postdoc, Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences
  • 2022.12 ~ Present, Research Assistant, Lingang Laboratory

Academic funding

  • 2019.08, Awarded an National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Youth Program (CNY 240,000) entitled “The origin and evolution of broomcorn millet based on whole-genome resequencing” (31900189)

Publications

(First/co-first authored publications)

  1. Li, L., Song, J., Zhang, M., Iqbal, S., Li, Y., Zhang, H., and Zhang, H. (2023). A near complete genome assembly of chia assists in identification of key fatty acid desaturases in developing seeds. Front in Plant Sci, 2022.08.15.504044.
  2. Li, L.#, Li, M.#, Wu, J., Yin, H., Dunwell, J.M., and Zhang, S. (2022). Genome-wide identification and comparative evolutionary analysis of sorbitol metabolism pathway genes in four Rosaceae species and three model plants. BMC Plant Biol 22:341.
  3. Li, L., and Zhang, H. (2022). The broomcorn millet genome. In: Underutilised Crop Genomes–Chapman, M.A., ed. Switzerland: Springer Nature. 1-17.
  4. Li, L., Deng, C.H., Knabel, M., Chagne, D., Kumar, S., Sun, J., Zhang, S., and Wu, J. (2017). Integrated high-density consensus genetic map of Pyrus and anchoring of the ‘Bartlett’ v1.0 (Pyrus communis) genome. DNA Res 24:289-301.
  5. Qin, M.F. #, Li, L.T. #, Singh, J., Sun, M.Y., Bai, B., Li, S.W., Ni, J.P., Zhang, J.Y., Zhang, X., Wei, W.L., et al. (2022). Construction of a high-density bin-map and identification of fruit quality-related quantitative trait loci and functional genes in pear. Hortic Res 9:uhac141.
  6. Richards, S.M. #, Li, L. #, Breen, J., Hovhannisyan, N., Estrada, O., Gasparyan, B., Gilliham, M., Smith, A., Cooper, A., and Zhang, H. (2022). Recovery of chloroplast genomes from medieval millet grains excavated from the Areni-1 cave in southern Armenia. Sci Rep 12:15164.
  7. Kiani-Pouya, A. #, Li, L. #, Rasouli, F., Zhang, Z., Chen, J., Yu, M., Tahir, A., Hedrich, R., Shabala, S., and Zhang, H. (2022). Transcriptome analyses of quinoa leaves revealed critical function of epidermal bladder cells in salt stress acclimation. Plant Stress:100061.
  8. Sun, J. #, Li, L. #, Wang, P., Zhang, S., and Wu, J. (2017). Genome-wide characterization, evolution, and expression analysis of the leucine-rich repeat receptor-like protein kinase (LRR-RLK) gene family in Rosaceae genomes. BMC Genomics 18:763.
  9. Chen, H.#, Song, Y. #, Li, L.-T. #, Khan, M.A., Li, X.-G., Korban, S.S., Wu, J., and Zhang, S.-L. (2015). Construction of a high-density simple sequence repeat consensus genetic map for pear (Pyrus spp.). Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 33:316-325.
  10. Wu, J. #, Li, L.T. #, Li, M., Khan, M.A., Li, X.G., Chen, H., Yin, H., and Zhang, S.L. (2014). High-density genetic linkage map construction and identification of fruit-related QTLs in pear using SNP and SSR markers. J Exp Bot 65:5771-5781.

(Selected co-authored publications)

  1. Zhu, S., Gu, J., Yao, J., Li, Y., Zhang, Z., Xia, W., Wang, Z., Gui, X., Li, L., Li, D., et al. (2022). Liquid-liquid phase separation of RBGD2/4 is required for heat stress resistance in Arabidopsis. Dev Cell 57:583-597 e586.
  2. Zou, C., Li, L., Miki, D., Li, D., Tang, Q., Xiao, L., Rajput, S., Deng, P., Peng, L., Jia, W., et al. (2019). The genome of broomcorn millet. Nature communications 10:436.
  3. Tang, T., Zhang, Y., Wang, Y., Cai, Z., Lu, Z., Li, L., Huang, R., Hagelkruys, A., Matthias, P., Zhang, H., et al. (2019). HDAC1 and HDAC2 Regulate Intermediate Progenitor Positioning to Safeguard Neocortical Development. Neuron 101:1117-1133 e1115.
  4. Qiao, X., Li, Q., Yin, H., Qi, K., Li, L., Wang, R., Zhang, S., and Paterson, A.H. (2019). Gene duplication and evolution in recurring polyploidization-diploidization cycles in plants. Genome Biol 20:38.
  5. Wu, J., Wang, Y., Xu, J., Korban, S.S., Fei, Z., Tao, S., Ming, R., Tai, S., Khan, A.M., Postman, J.D., … Li, L. et al. (2018). Diversification and independent domestication of Asian and European pears. Genome Biol 19:77.
  6. Denoeud, F., Carretero-Paulet, L., Dereeper, A., Droc, G., Guyot, R., Pietrella, M., Zheng, C., Alberti, A., Anthony, F., Aprea, G., …, Li, L.T. et al. (2014). The coffee genome provides insight into the convergent evolution of caffeine biosynthesis. Science 345:1181-1184.
  7. Ming, R., VanBuren, R., Liu, Y., Yang, M., Han, Y., Li, L.T., Zhang, Q., Kim, M.J., Schatz, M.C., Campbell, M., et al. (2013). Genome of the long-living sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.). Genome Biol 14:R41.
  8. Wu, J., Wang, Z., Shi, Z., Zhang, S., Ming, R., Zhu, S., Khan, M.A., Tao, S., Korban, S.S., Wang, H., …, Li. L., et al. (2013). The genome of the pear (Pyrus bretschneideri Rehd.). Genome Res 23:396-408.

Research areas and skills

  • [Omics/bioinformatics] High-throughput sequencing data analysis; whole-genome genome assembly and annotation; whole genome resequencing data analysis; RNA-seq, BS-seq and sRNA-seq data analysis.
  • [Plant molecular breeding] Construction of plant genetic maps; QTL analysis; GWAS.
  • [Computer skills] Linux operation system; high-performance computing (HPC) clusters; Shell, Perl and R programming languages.
  • [Data science] Familiar with statistical analysis and data visualization.