Associate Professor
North Carolina State University
Harbin, China
Jack P. Wang is currently an Associate Professor in the State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding at Northeast Forestry University, and a Research Associate in the Forest Biotechnology Group at North Carolina State University. Jack received his B.S. degree in Biology and Chemistry from Waikato University, New Zealand in 2006, and completed his Ph.D. at North Carolina State University in 2012.
Jack’s research has focused on biochemistry and molecular genetics of plant metabolism, with particular interest in regulation of lignin biosynthesis and plant cell wall biosynthesis. Some highlights of his research include characterizing the heterotetrameric 4-coumaric acid:CoA ligase (4CL) enzyme complex formation, regulation and numerical modeling (published in 2014 in The Plant Cell), and establishing a proteomic-based predictive kinetic metabolic-flux (PKMF) model of the monolignol biosynthetic pathway (published in 2014 in The Plant Cell). This PKMF model predicts how monolignol pathway enzymes affect lignin content and composition, explains a long standing paradox regarding the regulation of monolignol subunit ratios in lignin, and reveals novel mechanisms involved in the regulation of lignin biosynthesis.
(CS-1-6) Transgene-free CRISPR Genome Editing in Protoplasts of Pinus taeda and Abies fraseri
Sunday, August 6, 2023
2:55 PM – 3:15 PM EDT