Postdoctoral Fellow (2019 – 2022)

PhD (2019)

• E-mail: jkf64@umsystem.edu

Education

• BS Biological Sciences, Wuhan University, China

Research Interests

The focuses of my research are the physiological and metabolic responses of primary root to water-deficit stress in different plant species. Based on a seedling system that can provide precise and reproducible water stress levels, which is defined by water potential, I developed a method for direct comparison of the physiological and metabolic responses of  primary root to water-deficit stress in maize and cotton. The method involves metabolomics and transcriptomics analyses as well as biochemistry procedures. The major target of the comparative study is to find regulation mechanisms and metabolic pathways that have unique features in different species that helps us understand the specificity of each species even in response to the same stressed condition.  

Posters/Invited Presentations/Publications

• Kang, J., Hoyos-Miernyk, E., Oliver, M., & Sharp, R. E. (2019). Comparative Physiological and Metabolic Analysis: Maize and Cotton Primary Root Responses to Water Deficit Stress. American Society of Plant Biologists. West Virginia University: Midwest Meeting of the American Society of Palnt Biologists.
• Kang, J., Hoyos-Miernyk, E., Oliver, M., & Sharp, R. E. (2018, May). Comparative Metabolomics: Maize and Cotton Primary Root Metabolic Responses to Water Deficit Stress. IPG Symposium, MU. MU: IPG Symposium, MU.
• Kang, J., Hoyos, E., Oliver, M., & Sharp, R. E. (2017). Comparative Metabolomics: Maize and Cotton Primary Root Metabolic Responses to Water Deficit Stress. MU Interdisciplinary Plant Group. University of Missouri: MU Interdisciplinary Plant Group.