一，个人简介
张艾，汉族，青年教授，博士生导师。2018 年毕业于东北师范大学生命科学学院植物学专业，获理学博士学位（导师：刘宝教授）。同年加入瑞典农业科学大学（Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences）植物发育研究中心，从事博士后研究（合作导师：Charles Melnyk）。2023 年入职西北农林科技大学生命科学学院。
二，研究方向
植物再生依赖细胞全能性与多能性，通过细胞脱分化与再分化过程，实现伤口愈合或完整植株重建。目前，再生技术已广泛应用于嫁接、扦插、组织培养等农业生产场景，但细胞全能性与多能性的诱导及精准调控，仍是植物学领域亟待持续探索的核心科学问题。我们以拟南芥和小麦为模式材料，整合遗传学、细胞生物学及分子生物学等多学科技术手段，系统开展再生关键因子（涵盖植物干细胞及小分子化合物）的挖掘与功能解析，旨在阐明植物再生的核心调控网络，实现对植物再生能力的定向操控，为作物遗传改良与育种创新提供理论支撑和技术参考。
三，承担及参与的项目
主持国家自然科学基金青年项目、国家海外博士后引才专项（第二批）、陕西省三秦英才引才计划区域青年人才项目，以及科研院所横向合作等科研项目。
四，主要学术成果
1. Ming Feng#, Ai Zhang#, Van Nguyen, Anchal Bisht, Curt Almqvist, Lieven De Veylder, Annelie Carlsbecker, Charles W. Melnyk (2024) A conserved graft formation process in Norway spruce and Arabidopsis identifies the PAT gene family as central regulators of wound healing, Nature Plants, 1(10): 53-65 (as the first co-author)
2. Ai Zhang, Keita Matsuoka, Abdul Kareem, Madalen Robert, Pawel Roszak, Bernhard Blob, Anchal Bisht, Lieven De Veylder, Cătălin Voiniciuc, Masashi Asahina, Charles W. Melnyk (2022) Cell-wall damage activates DOF transcription factors to promote wound healing and tissue regeneration in Arabidopsis thaliana. Current Biology, 32, 1883-1894 e1887.
3. Ai Zhang, Ning Li, Lei Gong, Xiaowan Gou, Xin Deng, Bin Wang, Changping Li, Qianli Dong, Huakun Zhang, Bao Liu (2017) Global analysis of gene expression in response to whole-chromosome aneuploidy in hexaploid wheat. Plant Physiology. 175: 828-847
4. Shuangzhan Huang#, Ai Zhang#, Jing Bo Jin, Bo Zhao, Tian‐Jing Wang, Yifan Wu, Shuang Wang, Yutong Liu, Jie Wang, Peng Guo, Rafiq Ahmad, Bao Liu and Zheng‐Yi Xu (2019) Arabidopsis histone H3K4 demethylase JMJ17 functions in dehydration stress response. New Phytologist. 223(3): 1372-1387 (as the first co-author)
5. Balkan Canher, Fien Lanssens, Ai Zhang, Anchal Bisht, Shamik Mazumdar, Jefri Heyman, Sebastian Wolf, Charles W. Melnyk, Lieven De Veylder (2022) The regeneration factors ERF114 and ERF115 regulate auxin-mediated lateral root development in response to mechanical cues. Molecular Plant, 1674-2052.
6. Tian‐Jing Wang, Shuangzhan Huang, Ai Zhang, Peng Guo, Yutong Liu, Chunming Xu, Weixuan Cong, Bao Liu, Zheng‐Yi Xu (2021) JMJ17–WRKY40 and HY5–ABI5 modules regulate the expression of ABA‐responsive genes in Arabidopsis. New Phytologist. 230 (2): 567-584
7. Ning Li, Chunming Xu, Ai Zhang, Ruili Lv, Xinchao Meng, Xiuyun Lin, Lei Gong, Jonathan F. Wendel, Bao Liu (2019) DNA methylation repatterning accompanying hybridization, whole genome doubling and homoeolog exchange in nascent segmental rice allotetraploids. New Phytologist. 223(2): 979-992
8. Yutong Liu, Jie Wang, Hao Yin, Ai Zhang, Shuangzhan Huang, Tian-Jing Wang, Qingxiang Meng, Nan Nan, Yifan Wu, Peng Guo, Rafiq Ahmad, Bao Liu and Zheng-Yi Xu (2018) Trithorax-group protein ATX5 mediates the glucose response via impacting the HY1-ABI4 signaling module. Plant Molecular Biology. 98(6): 495-506
9. Xin Deng, Yan Sha, Zhenling Lv, Ying Wu, Ai Zhang, Fang Wang and Bao Liu (2018) The Capacity to Buffer and Sustain Imbalanced D-Subgenome Chromosomes by the BBAA Component of Hexaploid Wheat Is an Evolved Dominant Trait. Frontiers in Plant Science. 9: 1149
10. Yutong Liu, Ai Zhang, Hao Yin, Qingxiang Meng, Xiaoming Yu, Shuangzhan Huang, Jie Wang, Rafiq Ahmad, Bao Liu* and Zheng-Yi Xu* (2018) Arabidopsis trithorax-group proteins, ATX4 and ATX5, function in abscisic acid and dehydration stress responses. New Phytologist. 217(4): 1582-1597
五，联系方式
通讯地址：陕西杨凌，西北农林科技大学，生命科学学院
邮编：712100
邮箱：zhanga062@nwafu.edu.cn