2001-2008河北农业大学生命科学学院获得理学学士学位 2008-2014中国农业科学院生物技术研究所获得理学硕士、博士学位 2014-2017中国农业科学院生物所博士后流动站，博士后 2017年5月至今中国农业科学院生物技术研究所，副研究员

主要从事植物基因工程方面的研究。

Liu X, Yang W, Mu B, Li S, Li Y, Zhou X, Zhang C, Fan Y, Chen R*.Engineering of 'Purple Embryo Maize' with a multigene expression system derived from a bidirectional promoter and self-cleaving 2A peptides.Plant Biotechnol J. 2018 Jun;16(6):1107-1109. doi: 10.1111/pbi.12883.(IF=7.443) Liu X, Li S, Yang W, Mu B, Jiao Y, Zhou X, Zhang C, Fan Y, Chen R*.Synthesis of seed-specific bidirectional promoters for metabolic engineering of anthocyanin-rich maize.Plant Cell Physiol. 2018 Jun 15. doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcy110.(IF=4.059) Liu X, Tian J, Zhou X, Chen R, Wang L, Zhang C, Zhao J, Fan Y. Identification and characterization of promoters specifically and strongly expressed in maize embryos. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 2014 Dec;12(9):1286-96. (IF=5.951) Liu X, Zhou X, Li Y, Tian J, Zhang Q, Li S, Wang L, Zhao J, Chen R*, Fan Y. Identification and functional characterization of bidirectional gene pairs and their intergenic regions in maize. BMC Genomics. 2014 May 5;15:338. (IF=4.278) Liu X, Yang W, Li Y, Li S, Zhou X, Zhao Q, Fan Y, Lin1, M* and Chen R*. The intergenic region of the maize defensin-like protein genes Def1 and Def2 functions as an embryo-specific asymmetric bidirectional promoter. Journal of Experimental Botany. 2016, 67 (14):4403-4413. (IF=6.229) Zhang S, Yang W, Zhao Q, Zhou X, Jiang L, Ma S, Liu X, Li Y, Zhang C, Fan Y, Chen R. Analysis of weighted co-regulatory networks in maize provides insight into new genes and regulatorymechanisms related to inositol phosphate metabolism. BMC Genomics. 2016 Feb 24;17(1):129(IF=4.278) Li Y, Liu X, Li J, Li S, Chen G, Zhou X, Yang W, Chen R*. Isolation of a maize ZmCI-1B promoter and characterization of its activity in transgenic maize and tobacco. Plant Cell Reports. 2015 34(8). (IF=3.178) Li S, Zhou X, Li H, Liu Y, Zhu L, Guo J, Liu X, Fan Y, Chen J, Chen R. Overexpression of ZmIRT1 and ZmZIP3 Enhances Iron and Zinc Accumulation in Transgenic Arabidopsis. PLoS One. 2015 Aug 28;10(8):e0136647. (IF=3.535) Zhou X, Yan S, Sun C, Li S, Li J, Xu M, Liu X, Zhang S, Zhao Q, Li Y, Fan Y, Chen R*, Wang L. A Maize Jasmonate Zim-Domain Protein, ZmJAZ14, Associates with the JA, ABA, and GA Signaling Pathways in Transgenic Arabidopsis. PLoS One. 2015 Mar 25: 10 (3): e0121824. (IF=3.535) Zhou X, Li S, Zhao Q, Liu X, Zhang S, Sun C, Fan Y, Zhang C, Chen R*. Genome-wide identification, classification and expression profiling of nicotianamine synthase (NAS) gene family in maize. BMC Genomics. 2013 Apr 10;14:238. (IF=4.278)