I. Group Introduction
The laboratory is affiliated with the Faculty of Synthetic Biology, the Emerging Agricultural Technology of SUAT, and the Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology. It is equipped with state-of-the-art instruments including intelligent constant-temperature culture rooms, a laser confocal microscopy platform, and an HPLC-MS/MS metabolomics analyzer, supporting full-process detection from genes to metabolites. The team currently consists of 7 Postdoctoral Fellows, 2 Research Assistants, 1 Laboratory Technician, and 3 Master’s and Doctoral students. Our members come from all over China, and the group implements a policy of “open data, shared reagents,” with weekly progress meetings and journal club sessions, aiming to build an open, rigorous, and joyful culture of interdisciplinary innovation.
Our research focuses on auxin-mediated plastic development, cyclic nucleotide signaling networks, and synthetic biology-enabled crop improvement, directly serving urban vertical farming and precision nutrition.
Outstanding members may be recommended for joint training or short-term exchanges with Sun Yat-sen University, Fudan University, and other institutions.
Students interested in plant science, genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, metabolomics, synthetic biology, or AI + agriculture are welcome to apply. Please send your CV to: luochu@suat-sz.edu.cn.
II. Introduction of the Group Leader
Professor Linlin Qi is a Associate Professor at the Faculty of Synthetic Biology, SUAT, a recipient of the National Overseas Young Talent Program, and a Tier B Selected Candidate of Shenzhen’s “Pengcheng Peacock Program.”
By integrating multidisciplinary technical approaches including plant molecular genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, and synthetic biology, his research mainly focuses on the molecular mechanisms of auxin-regulated adaptive growth and plastic development in plants, functional dissection of plant cyclic nucleotide monophosphates (cNMPs), and plant synthetic biology. He was the first to discover that auxin receptors *TIR1/AFBs* possess nucleotide cyclase activity, which has opened up a new direction for auxin signal transduction research. He has demonstrated the critical role of cNMPs in auxin signal transduction, which is expected to put an end to the nearly half-century-long debate on the significance of cNMPs in plants and advance related research in the field.
He has published more than 20 SCI papers with over 2,000 total citations. Among them, he has published six academic papers as the first or co-first author in internationally renowned journals including Nature, The Plant Cell, Plant Physiology, New Phytologist, and PLoS Genetics. He has served as a peer reviewer for numerous prestigious journals and delivered academic reports at international conferences on multiple occasions.
Research Areas: Plant cell signal transduction and its applications in agricultural synthetic biology.
Current Main Research Directions:
1. Auxin signal transduction and its applications in agricultural synthetic biology;
2. Functional dissection of cyclic nucleotide monophosphates (cNMPs) in plant cell signal transduction and their applications in agricultural synthetic biology;
Crop improvement, nutritional enhancement, and green manufacturing based on synthetic biology strategies.
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