Jing-Jiang Zhou PhD, FRES

Professor of Insect Molecular Biology

Doctoral Supervisor

State Key Laboratory of Green Pesticides 

Contact details

Room 501, Building C, Centre for Research and Development of Fine Chemicals, Guizhou University, East Campus, Guizhou University, China

Email: jjzhou@gzu.edu.cn

Phone: +86 13639140822

Qualifications

BSc – Peking University, China 1982

PhD – Imperial College, University of London, UK 1993

Positions held

1982-1986 Assistant Lecturer – Southwest University, China

1986-1993 PhD Student - Imperial College, University of London, UK

1993-1995 Postdoctoral Fellow - Australian National University, Australia

Oct.1995 Scientific Officer - CSIRO, Australia

1995- 2017 Senior Research Scientist - Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK

Sept. 2005 Visiting Scientist - University of California, Davis, USA

Mar. 2010 Visiting Scientist - Max Planck Institute, Jena, Germany

2018-2021 Guest Professor - Institute of Plant Protection, China Agriculture Academy, China

2021-2023 Guest Professor - Guizhou University, China

2023- 2024 Researcher - the Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK

2024- present Professor - Guizhou University, China

Profile

Professor Jing-Jiang Zhou graduated from Peking University and obtained his PhD from Imperial College, University of London. He has since worked at the Australian National University, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the University of California, Davis, and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology. From 1993 to 2017, Professor Zhou was a Senior Research Scientist at Rothamsted Research in the UK. Professor Zhou's research is extensive, transitioning from traditional molecular biology to genomics and plant allelopathy. His primary research focuses on the mechanisms of chemical signal transmission between organisms and insect olfactory recognition. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Insect Molecular Biology, a member of the European Association for Chemical Ecology, and a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. He also serves as a scientific advisor for the China International Technology Transfer Centre. Professor Zhou joins Guizhou University from University of Cambridge in 2024.

Selected recent publications (*corresponding authors)

Insect Genomics

1. Köllner T. G.*, David A., Luck K., Beran F., Kunert G., Zhou J-J., Caputi L., and O’Connor S. E*. (2022) Biosynthesis of iridoid sex pheromones in aphids. PNAS 119(42) e2211254119  https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2211254119

2. Liu R, He X, Lehane S, Lehane M, Hertz-Fowler C, Berriman M, Field LM, Zhou J-J* (2012) Expression of chemosensory proteins in the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans morsitans is related to female host-seeking behaviour. Insect Molecular Biology 21:41-8. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22074189

3. Liu, R., Lehane, S., He, X., Lehane, M., Hertz-Fowler, C., Berriman, M., Pickett, J.A., Field, L.M. and Zhou J-J *(2010). Characterisations of odorant-binding proteins in the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans morsitans. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 67(6):919-929. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4174292/

4. Zhou, J-J., Vieira, F.G., He, X-L., Smadja, C., Liu, R., Rozas, J. and Field, L.M.  (2010). Genome annotation and comparative analyses of the odorant-binding proteins and chemosensory proteins in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. Insect Molecular Biology Suppl 2:113-22. 

      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20482644

5. Benoit JB.*, Adelman ZN., Reinhardt K., Dolan A., Poelchau M., Jennings EC., Szuter EM., Hagan RW., Gujar H., [60 other authors] Zhou J-J., Evans JD., Attardo GM., Robertson HM., Zdobnov EM., Ribeiro JM., Gibbs RA., Werren JH., Palli SR., Schal C. and Richards S. (2016) Unique features of a global human ectoparasite identified through sequencing of the bed bug genome. Nature Communication 7:10165 doi:10.1038/ncomms10165.

6. Kanost MR.* , Arrese EL., Cao X., Chen YR., Chellapilla S., Goldsmith MR., Grosse-Wilde E., Heckel DG., Herndon N., Jiang H., Papanicolaou A., Qu J., Soulages JL., Vogel H., Walters J., Waterhouse RM., Ahn SJ., [92 other authors] Zhou J-J., Brown SJ., Scherer SE., Richards S. and Blissard GW. (2016) Multifaceted biological insights from a draft genome sequence of the tobacco hornworm moth, Manduca sexta. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 76:1-30.

Plant Secondary Metabolites

7. Zhang Z., Liu Y., Portaluri V., Woodcock C., Pickett J. A., Wang S., and Zhou J-J.* (2022) Chemical Identity and Functional Characterization of Semiochemicals That Promote the Interactions between Rice Plant and Rice Major Pest Nilaparvata lugens. J. Agric. Food Chem. 2021, 69, 4635−4644. 

8. Li F-Q., Li W., Lin Y-J., Pickett A.J., Birkett M., Wu K., Wang G. and Zhou J-J*. (2018) Expression of Lima Bean Terpene Synthases in Rice Enhances Recruitment of a Beneficial Enemy of a Major Rice Pest. Plant, Cell and Environment 41:111-120 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12959. 

Insect Odorant Binding Protein Work

9. Li,F.;Venthur,H.;Wang,S.; Homem, R.A.; Zhou, J.-J*. Evidence for the Involvement of the Chemosensory Protein AgosCSP5 in Resistance to Insecticides in the Cotton Aphid,Aphis gossypii. Insects 2021, 12, 335. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects12040335  

10. Northey T., Venthur H., De Biasio F., Chauviac F-X., Cole A., Lisboa Ribeiro KA., Grossi G., Falabella P., Field LM., Keep NH. and Zhou J-J* (2016) Crystal Structures and Binding Dynamics of Odorant-Binding Protein 3 from two aphid species Megoura viciae and Nasonovia ribisnigri.  Scientific Reports 6: 24739; doi: 10.1038/srep24739.       https://www.nature.com/articles/srep24739.pdf

11. Gu S-H, Wu K-M, Guo Y-Y, Field LM, Pickett JA, Zhang Y-J, Zhou J-J* (2013) Identification of genes expressed in the sex pheromone gland of the black cutworm Agrotis ipsilon with putative roles in sex pheromone biosynthesis and transport. BMC Genomics 14:636-643      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3849270/

12. Zhou, J-J*, Robertson, G., He X., Dufour, S., Hooper, A., Pickett, J.A., Keep, N.H. and Field, L.M. (2009). Identification and characterization of Bombyx mori odorant-binding proteins reveals that a ‘general odorant-binding protein’ can discriminate between sex pheromone components. Journal of Molecular Biology 389: 529-545. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19371749