1991年获美国夏威夷大学博士学位，随后在美国加州大学伯克利分校植物生物学系做博士后研究员，1997年回国。

植物发育分子生物学和植物信号转导分子机理

国际SCI学术刊物 "Plant Cell Report"、 "Chinese Science Bulletin" "Integrative Journal of Plant Biology"以及核心刊物"植物生理通讯"、"植物学通报"等杂志编委，任湖北省植物生理学会理事长，中国植物生理学会副理事长

1. Zhang L and Lu YT　 Calmodulin-binding protein kinases in plants. Trends in Plant Science 2003 8:123-127 2. Zhang L, Liu BF, Liang S, Jones RL and Lu YT　Molecular and biochemical characterization of a calcium/calmodulin- binding protein kinase from rice. The Biochemical J. 2002 368:145-157 3. Liu BF, Zhang JF and Lu YT 　Predicting and evaluating separation quality of micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography by artificial neural networks. Electrophoresis 2002 23:1279-1284 4. Wang L, Liang S and Lu YT　 Characterization, physical location and expression of the genes encoding calcium/calmodulin- dependent protein kinases in maize (Zea mays L.) Planta 2001 213:556-564 5. Liu BF, Zhong XH and Lu YT　 Characterization of phosphorylation of a novel protein kinase in rice cell by capillary electrophoresis. J Chromatography A 2001 918:401-409