个人简历

2004年11月- 2006年12月：华中农业大学植物科学技术学院，Assistant Professor；
2007年1月- 2013年12月：华中农业大学植物科学技术学院，Associate Professor；
2013年12月至今：华中农业大学植物科学技术学院，Professor；
2005年12月-2006年10月：Department of Horticulture, Chungnam National University, Korea,(Visiting Scholar,Cooperated with Dr.Yongpyo Lim）；
2007年12月-2008年12月：Danforth Plant Science Center,MO, USA(Visiting Scholar, Cooperated with Dr.Edgar Cahoon)；
2008年12月-2010年2月：Department of Biochemistry,University of Nebraska Lincoln,NE,USA (Visiting Scholar, Cooperated with Dr.Edgar Cahoon)

研究领域

1. 油菜、拟南芥维生素E合成代谢机制与调控。
2. 油菜抗根肿病遗传与分子育种

近期论文

Chen J, Pang W, Chen B, Zhang C, Piao Z. Transcriptome Analysis of Brassica rapa Near-Isogenic Lines Carrying Clubroot-Resistant and –Susceptible Alleles in Response to Plasmodiophora brassicae during Early Infection. Frontiers in Plant Science. 2015;6:1183. doi:10.3389/fpls.2015.01183.(并列通讯)。
Zhang, C., Zhang, W., Ren, G., Li, D., Cahoon, R., E., Chen, M., Zhou, Y., Yu, B. and Cahoon, E. (2015) Chlorophyll Synthase Under Epigenetic Surveillance is Critical for Vitamin E Tocopherol Synthesis and Altered Expression Impacts Tocopherol Levels in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology (online).
战宗祥，江莹芬，朱紫媛，张春沙，杨庆勇，李　倩，侯照科， 龚建芳，程雨贵，吴江生，傅廷栋，周永明，朴钟云，张椿雨。（2015）与位点PbBa8.1紧密连锁分子标记的开发及甘蓝型油菜根肿病抗性育种[J]. 中国油料作物学报, 37(6): 766-(并列通讯作者)。
Zhang, W., Liu, T., Ren, G., Hörtensteiner, S., Zhou, Y., Cahoon, E.B. and Zhang, C. (2014) Chlorophyll degradation: the tocopherol biosynthesis related phytol hydrolase in Arabidopsis seeds is still missing. Plant Physiology.（online, 通讯作者）
Chen J, Jing J, Zhan Z, Zhang T, Zhang C, et al. (2013) Identification of Novel QTLs for Isolate-Specific Partial Resistance to Plasmodiophora brassicae in Brassica rapa. PLoS ONE 8(12): e85307. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0085307.（并列通讯作者）
Gan L., Zhang C., Wang X., Wang H., Long Y., Yin Y., Li D., Tian J., Li Z., Lin Z., Yu L., Li M. The proteomic and comparative genomic analysis of two Brassica napus lines differing in oil content.The proteomic and comparative genomic analysis of two Brassica napus lines differing in oil content. Journal of Proteome Research,2013 (并列第一作者，http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/pr4005635).
Chunyu Zhang, Umidjon Iskandarov, Elliott T. Klotz, Robyn L. Stevens, Rebecca E. Cahoon, Tara J. Nazarenus, Suzette L. Pereira, and Edgar B. Cahoon. A thraustochytrid diacylglycerol acyltransferase 2 with broad substrate specificity strongly increases oleic acid content in engineered Arabidopsis thaliana seeds. 2013, J. Ex. Bot. http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/06/20/jxb.ert156.full.（并列第一作者）
Chunyu Zhang, Rebecca E. Cahoon, Sarah C. Hunter, Ming Chen, Jixiang Han, Edgar B. Cahoon. Genetic and Biochemical Basis for Alternative Routes of Tocotrienol Biosynthesis for Enhanced Vitamin E Antioxidant Production.The Plant Journal,2013,73: 628-639.
Xingxing Wang, Chunyu Zhang, Lingjuan Li, Steffi Fritsche, Jessica Endrigkeit, Wenying Zhang, Yan Long, Christian Jung, Jinling Meng. Unravelling the genetic basis of seed tocopherol content and composition in rapeseed (Brassica napus L.).PLoS ONE,2012.
Wenyu Yang, Rebecca E. Cahoon, Sarah C. Hunter, Chunyu Zhang, Jixiang Han, Trissa Borgschulte and Edgar B. Cahoon. Vitamin E biosynthesis: functional characterization of the monocot homogentisate geranylgeranyl transferase. The Plant Journal, 2011,65(2):206–217.