中国科学院植物研究所研究员。2004年6月在中国科学院遗传与发育研究所获得发育生物学博士学位后进入中国科学院植物研究所光生物学重点实验室工作，历任助理研究员、副研究员，2013年12月起任研究员。主要研究方向为光合作用调控以及叶绿体发育。以通讯作者或者第一作者身份在PNAS，Plant Cell等学术刊物发表论文15篇，并承担农业部转基因专项、国家自然科学基金等多项科研任务。目前担任中国植物生理学会光合作用专业委员会委员，国家自然科学基金和浙江省自然科学基金通讯评审专家，教育部学位中心通讯评审专家。已培养（合作培养）研究生5名。

主要研究工作：（研究方向：）

叶绿体是绿色植物所特有的细胞器。它不仅是植物进行光合作用的场所，也是植物代谢和能量转化的核心枢纽。叶绿体的生物发生对高等植物的生长发育过程具有重要作用。我们的研究工作将致力于叶绿体生物发生分子机理的解析，并希望以此为契机深入了解光合作用的生理生化过程，从而为提高作物光能转化效率、开辟太阳能利用的新途径提供理论依据。我们的研究方向集中于以下三个个方面：（1） 叶绿体基因表达在叶绿体生物过程中的作用解析。（2） 叶绿体调控植物发育过程的分子机理解析。（3）叶绿体类囊体膜结构动态调节在植物高效光能利用中的作用解析。

研究论文（注*为通讯作者）：

2022

Ji D*, Li Q, Guo Y, An W, Manavski N, Meurer J, Chi W*. 2022. NADP⁺ supply adjusts the synthesis of photosystem I in Arabidopsis chloroplasts. Plant Physiol. doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiac161. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35385122

2020

Zou MJ, Mu Y, Chai X, Ouyang M, Yu LJ, Zhang L, Meurer J, Chi W*. 2020. The critical function of the plastid rRNA methyltransferase, CMAL, in ribosome biogenesis and plant development. Nucleic Acids Research 48:3195-3210.

Bai ZC, Zhang J, Ning X, Guo HL, Xu XM, Huang XH, Wang YC, Hu ZB, Lu CM, Zhang LX and Chi W*. 2020. A kinase-phosphatase-transcription factor module regulates adventitious root emergence in Arabidopsis root-hypocotyl junctions. Mol Plant 13:1162-1177.

2019

Jiang J, Chai X, Manavski N, Williams-Carrier R, He B, Brachmann A, Ji D, Ouyang M, Liu Y, Barkan A, Meurer J, Zhang LX, Chi W*. 2019. An RNA-chaperone-like protein plays critical roles in chloroplast mRNA stability and translation in Arabidopsis and maize.  Plant Cell 31:1308-1327.

Ji D, Manavski N, Meurer J, Zhang L, Chi W*. 2019. Regulated chloroplast transcription termination. Biochim Biophys Acta (Bioenergetics). 1860:69-77

2017

Mu Y, Zou M, Sun X, He B, Xu X, Liu Y, Zhang L, Chi W*. 2017. BASIC PENTACYSTEINE Proteins Repress ABSCISIC ACID INSENSITIVE4 Expression via Direct Recruitment of the Polycomb-Repressive Complex 2 in Arabidopsis Root Development. Plant Cell Physiol 58: 607-621.

2016

Chi W, Li J, He B, Chai X, Xu X, Sun X, Jiang J, Feng P, Zuo J, Lin R, Rochaix JD, Zhang L*. 2016. A serine protease, modulates cytokinin and light signaling by regulating the level of ARABIDOPSIS RESPONSE REGULATOR 4. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 113: E3568-E3576

2015

He B, Mu Y, Chi W*. 2015. Effects of inefficient transcription termination of rbcL on the expression of accD in plastids of Arabidopsis thaliana. Photosynth Res. 126:323-330

Chi W*, He B, Mao J, Jiang J, Zhang L. 2015. Plastid sigma factors: Their individual functions and regulation in transcription. Biochim Biophys Acta. (Bioenergetics) 1847:770-778.（invited review）

Chi W, Feng P, Ma J, Zhang L*. 2015. Metabolites and chloroplast retrograde signaling. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 25:32-38

Mao J#, Chi W#, Ouyang M#, He B, Chen F, Zhang L*. 2015. PAB is an assembly chaperone that functions downstream of chaperonin 60 in the assembly of chloroplast ATP synthase coupling factor 1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 112:4152-4157.( #contribute equally)

2014 及以前

Chi W, He B, Manavski N, Mao J, Ji D, Lu C, Rochaix JD, Meurer J, Zhang L*. 2014. RHON1 mediates a Rho-like activity for transcription termination in plastids of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell. 6：4918-4932.

Chi W, Sun X and Zhang L* .2013. Intracellular signaling from plastid to nucleus. Annu Rev Plant Biol 64:559-582.

Chi W，He B, Mao J, Li Q, Ma J, Ji D， Zou M and Zhang L* .2012. The function of RH22, a DEAD RNA helicase, in the biogenesis of the 50S ribosomal subunits of Arabidopsis chloroplasts. Plant Physiol 158: 693-707.

Chi W, Ma J and Zhang L* .2012. Regulatory factors for the assembly of thylakoid membrane protein complexes. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 367:3420-3429.

Chi W, Sun X and Zhang L* .2012. The roles of chloroplast proteases in the biogenesis and maintenance of photosystem II. Biochim Biophys Acta (Bioenergetics) 1817: 239-246.

Chi W, Mao J, Li Q, Ji D, Zou M, Lu C and Zhang L* .2010. Interaction of the pentatricopeptide-repeat protein DELAYED GREENING 1 with sigma factor SIG6 in the regulation of chloroplast gene expression in Arabidopsis cotyledons. Plant J 64: 14-25.

Chi W, Ma J, Zhang D, Guo J, Chen F, Lu C, Zhang L*. 2008. The pentratricopeptide repeat protein DELAYED GREENING1 is involved in the regulation of early chloroplast development and chloroplast gene expression in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 147:573-584