Wang Peng

Wang Peng - Predoctoral fellow

Peng received his Master’s degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Sun Yat-sen University in 2013, studying chloroplast and plastid division under Prof. Hongbin Wang. He later worked at the Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology with Dr. Mingguang Lei on the endocytic mechanisms of phosphate transporters. In 2019, he began his PhD with Dr. Jenny Russinova, focusing on endocytic regulation in Arabidopsis, supported by a CSC scholarship. He started his postdoctoral research in Thomas Jacobs’ lab in July 2025, working on genome-wide screening in Physcomitrium patens.