个人简介：
钟伯坚，南京师范大学生命科学学院教授，院长，国家优秀青年基金和江苏省“攀登项目”获得者。主要从事植物环境适应性及进化基因组学研究，相关成果解析了绿色植物起源演化与地球大气环境演变的耦合关系，阐明了绿藻适应复杂环境的分子基础。以通讯作者（含共同）在Nature Communications（3篇）、Current Biology、Molecular Plant、Cell Reports、Molecular Biology and Evolution（3篇）、Systematic Biology、Journal of Integrative Plant Biology（4篇）、New Phytologist、Plant Physiology等学术期刊发表多篇论文。主持国家自然科学基金优秀青年科学基金、重点国际（地区）合作研究项目、面上项目及江苏省“攀登项目”、自然科学研究重大项目等。获得吴征镒植物学奖“创新奖”、卫志明青年创新奖、江苏省青年科技奖、江苏省“青蓝工程”中青年学术带头人，江苏省“六大人才高峰”高层次人才等荣誉。

研究方向：

植物多样性与适应性进化

植物进化基因组学

植物光感应系统的进化与改造

学术任职：

1．中国植物学会理事和青年常务理事、中国植物学会系统与进化植物学专业委员会副主任；中国植物生理与植物分子生物学学会青年工作委员会委员；江苏省植物学会副理事长、江苏省植物生理学会常务理事；中国海洋湖沼学会藻类学分会常务委员；江苏省生物信息学学会理事；南京生物多样性保护科教联盟副理事长。

2．担任Journal of Systematics and Evolution和Journal of Molecular Evolution副主编，Journal of Integrative Plant Biology、Plant Diversity、《植物学报》等期刊编委，《科学通报》&Science Bulletin等期刊青年编委。

3．基金委国家自然科学基金、欧盟研究理事会（ERC）和捷克国家科学基金等评审专家；Nature Genetics、Nature Ecology & Evolution、Nature Plants、Nature Communications、Molecular Plant、Molecular Biology and Evolution、New Phytologist等期刊审稿人；教育部学位与研究生教育发展中心学位论文评审专家。

代表性论文：

1. Li Y, Fang J, Ma X, Wang H, Zhang S, Peng Y, Chen L, Liu G, Zhu H*, Zhang Z*, Zhong B* (2026). Genome of aerial alga Trentepohlia odorata reveals insights into the evolution of terrestrial lifestyle in green algae. Journal of Genetics and Genomics. 53(3): 433-446.

2. Ma X, Zhang C, Yang L, Hedges B, Zhong B^* (2025). New insights on angiosperm crown age based on Bayesian node dating and skyline fossilized birth-death approaches. Nature Communications. 16: 2265.

3. Wang T, Feng H, Zhu C, Diao R, Zhong B^* (2025). Phylotranscriptomics provides insights into the Mesoproterozoic-Neoproterozoic origin and diversification of green algae Trebouxiophyceae. Cell Reports. 44(7):115890.

4. Huang X, Yang L, Ma X, Yang Z, Wang Q, Wang H, Yang Y, Morales-Briones D, Zhong B* (2025). Phylogenomic discordance is mainly driven by pervasive ancient hybridization and incomplete lineage sorting during the early divergence of major angiosperm lineages. Plant Communications. 6(11):101529.

5. Zhang Z, Diao R, Sun J, Liu Y, Zhao M, Wang Q, Xu Z, Zhong B^* (2024). Diversified molecular adaptations of inorganic nitrogen assimilation and signaling machineries in plants. New Phytologist. 241: 2108-2123.

6. Yang Z, Ma X, Wang Q, Tian X, Sun J, Zhang Z, Xiao S, De Clerck O, Leliaert F, Zhong B^* (2023). Phylotranscriptomics unveil a Paleoproterozoic-Mesoproterozoic origin and deep relationships of the Viridiplantae. Nature Communications. 14: 5542.

7. Diao R, Zhao M, Liu Y, Zhang Z^*, Zhong B^* (2023). The advantages of crosstalk during the evolution of the BZR1–ARF6–PIF4 (BAP) module. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 65: 2631–2644.

8.  Hou Z^#, Ma X^#, Shi X, Li X, Yang L, Xiao S, De Clerck O, Leliaert F, Zhong B^* (2022). Phylotranscriptomic insights into a Mesoproterozoic-Neoproterozoic origin and early radiation of green seaweeds (Ulvophyceae). Nature Communications. 13: 1610.

9. Zhang Z, Ma X, Liu Y, Yang L, Shi X, Wang H, Diao R, Zhong B^* (2022). Origin and evolution of green plants in the light of key evolutionary events. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 64: 516-535.

10. Zhang Z, Xu C, Zhang S, Shi C, Cheng H, Liu H, Zhong B^* (2022). Origin and adaptive evolution of UV RESISTANCE LOCUS 8-mediated signaling during plant terrestrialization. Plant Physiology. 188: 332-346.（Plant Physiology发表了题为Ancient sun protection: the evolutionary origin of plant UV-B signaling的文章对该研究进行了评述）

11. Su D^#, Yang L^#, Shi X, Ma X, Zhou X, Hedges B, Zhong B^* (2021). Large-scale phylogenomic analyses reveal the monophyly of bryophytes and Neoproterozoic origin of land plants. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38:3332-3344.

12. Zhang Z^#, Qu C^#, Zhang K^#, He Y^#, Zhao X^#, Yang L^#, …, Leliaert F, Bhattacharya D, De Clerck O, Zhong B^* (Lead Contact), Miao J^* (2020). Adaptation to extreme Antarctic environments revealed by the genome of a sea ice green alga. Current Biology. 30: 3330-3341.

13. Nie Y, Foster C, Zhu T, Yao R, Duchêne D, Ho S, Zhong B^* (2020). Accounting for uncertainty in the evolutionary timescale of green plants through clock-partitioning and fossil calibration strategies. Systematic Biology. 69: 1-16.

14. Han X, Chang X, Zhang Z, Chen H, He H^*, Zhong B^*, Deng X^* (2019). Origin and evolution of core components responsible for monitoring light environment changes during plant terrestrialization. Molecular Plant. 12: 847-862.

15. Zhong B^*, Xi Z, Goremykin V, Fong R, McLenachan T, Novis P, Davis C, Penny D (2014). Streptophyte algae and the origin of land plants revisited using heterogeneous models with three new algal chloroplast genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31: 177-183.

16. Zhong B^#*, Liu L^#, Yan Z, Penny D (2013). Origin of land plants using the multispecies coalescent model. Trends in Plant Science. 18: 492-495.

17. Zhong B^*, Yonezawa T, Zhong Y, Hasegawa M^* (2010). The position of Gnetales among seed plants: Overcoming pitfalls of chloroplast phylogenomics. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27: 2855-2863.

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