Rongrong He

Education:

Ph.D. in Biology, Western University, 2023
M.Sc. in Landscape Plants & Ornamental Horticulture, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2013
B.Sc. in Horticulture, Shandong Agricultural University, 2010

Teaching:

HORT 1003 Planting in Landscapes
HORT 1000 Landscape Plants I

Publications:

•        Rongrong He, Yinzi Li, Mark A Bernards, Aiming Wang * (2025) Turnip mosaic virus selectively subverts a PR-5 thaumatin-like, plasmodesmal protein to promote viral infection. New Phytologist. 245(1): 299-317. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20233

•        Guanwei Wu # , Liping Wang # , Rongrong He # , Xiaoyan Cui, Xin Chen, Aiming Wang * (2024) Two plant membrane-shaping reticulon-like proteins play contrasting complex roles in turnip mosaic virus infection. Molecular Plant Pathology. 25(10):e70017.  https://doi.org/10.1111/mpp.70017

•        Rongrong He, Yinzi Li, Mark A Bernards, Aiming Wang (2023) Manipulation of the Cellular Membrane-Cytoskeleton Network for RNA Virus Replication and Movement in Plants. Viruses, 15(3), 744. https://doi.org/10.3390/v15030744

•        Rongrong He, Mark A Bernards, Aiming Wang (2022) Purification of plasmodesmata-enriched fraction for proteomic analyses. Plant Virology: Methods and Protocols, 115-123. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1835-6_12  

•        Zhaoji Dai, Rongrong He, Mark A Bernards, and Aiming Wang (2020) The cis-expression of the coat protein of turnip mosaic virus is essential for viral intercellular movement in plants. Molecular Plant Pathology 21: 1194–1211. https://doi.org/10.1111/mpp.12973

•        Guanwei Wu, Xiaoyan Cui, Zhaoji Dai, Rongrong He, Yinzi Li, Kangfu Yu, Mark Bernards, Xin Chen,and Aiming Wang. (2020) A plant RNA virus hijacks endocytic proteins to establish its infection in plants. The Plant Journal, 101(2): 384-400. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.14549