Name: YE, Gong-yin (G.Y. YE)
Title: Professor and vice Director
Mailing address:Institute of Insect Science, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Yuhangtang Road 866, Hangzhou 310058, China
Tel: 86-0571-86971696(O)
Fax: 86-0571-86049815
E -mail: chu@zju.edu.cn

Education

• Bachelor of Agriculture ¨C Plant Protection: Zhejiang Agricultural University, 1986.
• Master of Science ¨C Entomology: Zhejiang Agricultural University, 1989.
• Doctor of Philosophy ¨C Entomology: Zhejiang Agricultural University (currently Zhejiang University), 1996.

Professional Experience:

• 1989-1998, Professor Assistant, Lecturer and Associate Professor, Department of Plant Protection, Zhejiang Agricultural University, Hangzhou, China.
• 1997, 1999, Research visitor, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines, for one to two months each year.
• 1998-2000, Associate Professor, Institute of Applied Entomology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
• 2000-2004, Professor, Vice-director, Institute of Applied Entomology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
• 2004-2005, Senior Visiting Scholar, Agricultural Biotechnology Laboratories, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
• 2004 to present, Professor, Vice-director, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
• 2008 to present, Director of Office of Academic Affairs of Graduate School, Deputy Director of Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

Societies and Professional Activities:

• Entomological Society of Zhejiang Province, China: Vice President and General Secretary.
• Entomological Society of China: Chair of Insect Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Committee.
• Plant Protection Society of China: Member of the Youth Scientist Committee.
• Member of Editorial Board: Acta Phytophylacica Sinica.
• Entomological Society of America: Member.

Major Research Interests:

• Physiological and molecular interaction between parasitoids and their host insects, in particular physiological functions of immunosuppression factors from parasitoids
• Innate immunity of insects and antimicrobial peptides
• Insect reproductive physiology, in particular vitellogenesis and its endocrinal regulation
• Bio-safety of transgenic crops, in particular ecological safety of Bt rice.
• Resistance of insects against insecticides and heavy metals
• Biological control of agricultural insect pests, in particular with parasitoids.

Research Activity:
Main research activities have been focused: 1) Bio-safety of transgenic crops, in particular ecological risk evaluation of Bt rice; 2) physiological interaction between a pupal-specific parasitoid, Pteromalus puparum (Hymenoptera: Peteromalidae) (no other parasitoid associated immunosuppression factors other than venom are found in the female reproductive organ) and its host, Pieris rapae to define biochemical and molecular characterizations, physiological functions of the venom from this parasitoid; 3) the innate immunity of Pieris rapae and its alterations after parasitism by the parasitoid, P. puparum; 4) the antimicrobial peptides/proteins from parasitic wasp are screened using the method of cDNA library; 5) the vitellogenesis and its endocrinal regulation of parasitic wasps such as P. puparum, and other important insect pests e.g. Bemisia tabaci; 6) resistance of insects to insecticides and heavy metals and its biochemical and molecular mechanism.

Major ongoing research projects:

• Ecological impact of transgenic crops on diversity of plants and invertebrates, National Basic Research Program (973 Program).
• Biotransfer and bioaccumulation of insecticidal proteins in food chains of Bt rice¨Cherbivores¨Cspiders and the assessments of their ecological effectives. National Natural Science Foundation of China.
• Molecular mechanism of the venom from Pteromalus puparum to inhibit its host hemocyte encapsulation. National Natural Science Foundation of China.
• Interactions between natural enemies and their host insect pests and the underlying mechanism, National Basic Research Program (973 Program).
• Processes and physiological mechanisms of the vector-begomovirus-plant interactions in accelerating biological invasion. National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Main Awards and Honors:

• Award for Excellent Teacher, Chen Ziyuan Agricultural Education Fund, 2008
• Winner of the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, 2005
• Winner of ¡°the Ninth Session of the Outstanding Adolescent of Zhejiang Province¡±, 2001
• Winner of ¡° the First Session of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China¡±, 1999
• Award for Outstanding Young Scientist, China Entomological Society, 1997
• Others, he was received 10 research awards from national and provincial governments

Selected publications

1. Chen M, Ye GY*, Liu ZC, Fang Q, Hu C, Peng YF, Shelton AM. Analysis of Cry1Ab toxin bioaccumulation in a food chain of Bt rice, an herbivore and a predator. Ecotoxicology, 2009, 18 (2): 230-238.
2. Dong SZ, Ye GY*, Guo JY, Hu C. Roles of ecdysteroid and juvenile hormone in vitellogenesis in an endoparasitic wasp, Pteromalus puparum (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). General and Comparative Endocrinology, 2009, 160 (1): 102-108.
3. Ye GY*, Dong SZ, Dong H, Hu C, Shen ZC, Cheng JA. Effects of host (Boettcherisca peregrina) copper exposure on development, reproduction and vitellogenesis of the ectoparasitic wasp, Nasonia vitripennis. Insect Science, 2009, 16 (1): 43-50.
4. Zhu JY, Ye GY*, Fang Q, Hu C. Proteome changes in the plasma of Papilio xuthus (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae): effect of parasitization by the endoparasitic wasp Pteromalus puparum (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). J. Zhejiang Univ. Sci. B.£¬2009£¬10(6): 445-453
5. Cheng XY, Liu GZ, Ye GY, Wang HJ, Shen XJ, Wu KC, Xie JH, Altosaar I. Screening and cloning of antimicrobial DNA sequences using a vital staining method. Gene, 2009, 430 (1-2): 132-139.
6. Wu GX, Gao X, Ye GY*, Li K, Hu C, Cheng, JA. 2009. Ultrastructural alterations in midgut and Malpighian tubules of Boettcherisca peregrina exposure to cadmium and copper. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2009, 72(4): 1137-1147.
7. Zhu JY, Ye GY*, Dong SZ, Fang Q, Hu C. Venom of Pteromalus puparum (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) induced endocrine changes in the hemolymph of its hosts, Pieris rapae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, 2009, 71(1): 45-53.
8. Ye GY*, Dong SZ., Song QS, Shi M, Chen XX, Hu C. Molecular cloning and developmental expression of the vitellogenin gene in the endoparasitoid, Pteromalus puparum. Insect Molecular Biology, 2008, 17 (3): 227-233.
9. Yao HW, Jiang CY, Ye GY*, Hu C, Peng YF. Toxicological assessment of pollen from different Bt rice lines on Bombyx mori (Lepidoptera: Bombyxidae). Environmental Entomology, 2008, 37 (3): 825-837.
10. Fang Q, Huang CH, Ye GY*, Yao HW, Cheng JA, Akhtar ZR. Differential fipronil susceptibility and metabolism in two rice stem borers from China. Journal of Economic Entomology, 2008, 101 (4): 1415-1420.
11. Lin CY, Fang J, Xu XL, Zhao T, Cheng JA, Tu JM, Ye GY, Shen ZC. A built-in strategy for containment of transgenic plants: creation of selectively terminable transgenic rice. PLoS One, 2008, 3(3): e1818.
12. Zhu JY, Ye GY*, Hu C. Molecular cloning and characterization of acid phosphatase in venom of the endoparasitoid wasp Pteromalus puparum (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Toxicon, 2008, 51 (8): 1391-1399.
13. Zhu JY, Ye GY*, Fang Q, Wu ML, Hu C. A pathogenic picorna-like virus from the endoparasitoid wasp, Pteromalus puparum: initial discovery and partial genomic characterization. Virus Research, 2008, 138 (1-2): 144-149.
14. Wang H, Dong SZ, Li K, Hu C, Ye GY*. A heat shock cognate 70 gene in the endoparasitoid, Pteromalus puparum, and its expression in relation to thermal stress. BMB Reports (J. Biochem. Mol. Biol.), 2008, 41 (5): 388-393.
15. Wu ML, Ye GY*, Zhu JY, Chen XX, Hu C. Isolation and characterization of an immunosuppressive protein from venom of the pupa-specific endoparasitoid Pteromalus puparum. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 2008, 99 (2): 186-191.
16. Zhu JY, Ye GY*, Hu C. Morphology and ultrastructure of the venom apparatus in the endoparasitic wasp Pteromalus puparum (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Micron, 2008, 39 (7): 926-933.
17. Dong SZ, Ye GY*, Yao PC, Huang YL, Chen XX, Shen ZC, Hu C. Effects of starvation on the vitellogenesis, ovarian development and fecundity in the ectoparasitoid, Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Insect Science, 2008, 15 (5): 429-440.
18. Chen M, Liu ZC, Ye GY*, Shen ZC, Hu C, Peng YF, Altosaar I, Shelton AM. Impacts of transgenic cry1Ab rice on non-target planthoppers and their main predator Cyrtorhinus lividipennis (Hemiptera: Miridae) - A case study of the compatibility of Bt rice with biological control. Biological Control, 2007, 42 (2): 242-250.
19. Dong SZ, Ye GY*, Zhu JY, Chen ZX, Hu C, Liu SS. Vitellin of Pteromalus puparum (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), a pupal endoparasitoid of Pieris rapae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae): Biochemical characterization, temporal patterns of production and degradation. Journal of Insect Physiology, 2007, 53 (5): 468-477.
20. Li FF, Ye GY, Wu Q, Peng YF, Chen XX. Arthropod abundance and diversity in Bt and non-Bt rice fields. Environmental Entomology, 2007, 36 (3): 646-654.
21. Ye GY*, Li K, Zhu JY, Zhu GH, Hu C. Cuticular hydrocarbon composition in pupal exuviae for taxonomic differentiation of six necrophagous flies. Journal of Medical Entomology, 2007, 44 (3): 450-456.
22. Li K, Ye GY*, Zhu JY, Hu C. Detection of food source by PCR analysis of the gut contents of Aldrichina grahami (Aldrich) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) during post-feeding period. Insect Science, 2007, 14 (1): 47-52.
23. Li ZM, Liu SS, Liu YQ, Ye GY. Temperature-related fitness costs of resistance to spinosad in the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Plutelidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research, 2007, 97 (6): 627-635.
24. Chen M, Ye GY*, Liu ZC, Yao HW, Chen XX, Shen SZ, Hu C, Datta SK. Field assessment of the effects of transgenic rice expressing a fused gene of cry1Ab and cry1Ac from Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner on nontarget planthopper and leafhopper populations. Enviromental Entomology, 2006, 35 (1): 127-134.
25. Yao HW, Ye GY*, Jiang CY, Fan LJ, Datta K, Hu C, Datta SK. Effect of the pollen of transgenic rice line, TT9-3 with a fused cry1Ab/cry1Ac gene from Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner on non-target domestic silkworm, Bombyx mori Linnaeus (Lepidoptera: Bombyxidae). Applied Entomology and Zoology, 2006, 41 (2): 339-348.
26. Chen M, Zhao JZ, Ye GY, Fu Q, Shelton AM. Impact of insect-resistant transgenic rice on target insect pests and non-target arthropods in China. Insect Science, 2006, 13 (6): 409-420.
27. Zhu GH, Ye GY, Hu C, Xu XH, Li K. Development changes of cuticular hydrocarbons in Chrysomya rufifacies larvae: potential for determining larval age. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 2006, 20 (4): 438-444.
28. Lou YG, Hua XY, Turlings TCJ, Cheng JA, Chen XX, Ye GY. Differences in induced volatile emissions among rice varieties result in differential attraction and parasitism of Nilaparvata lugens eggs by the parasitoid Anagrus nilaparvatae in the field. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 2006, 32 (11): 2375-2387.
29. Wu GX, Ye GY*, Hu C, Cheng JA. Accumulation of cadmium and its effects on growth, development and hemolymph biochemical compositions in Boettcherisca peregrina larvae (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). Insect Science, 2006, 13(1): 31-39.
30. Zhang Z, Ye GY*, Cai J, Hu C. Comparative venom toxicity between Pteromalus puparum and Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) toward the hemocytes of their natural hosts, non-target insects and cultured insect cells. Toxicon, 2005, 46 (3): 337-349.
31. Zhu SF, Gao F, Cao XS, Chen M, Ye GY, Wei CH, Li Y. The rice dwarf virus P2 protein interacts with ent-kaurene oxidases in vivo, leading to reduced biosynthesis of gibberellins and rice dwarf symptoms. Plant Physiology, 2005, 139 (4): 1935-1945.
32. Cai J, Ye GY*, Hu C. Parasitism of Pieris rapae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) by a pupal endoparasitold, Pteromalus puparum (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae): effects of parasitization and venom on host hemocytes. Journal of Insect Physiology, 2004, 50 (4): 315-322.
33. Ye GY©~, Yao HW, Shu QY, Cheng X, Hu C, Xia YW, Gao MW, Altosaar I. High levels of stable resistance in transgenic rice with a cry1Ab gene from Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner to rice leaffolder, Cnaphalocrocis medinalis (Guenee) under field conditions. Crop Protection, 2003, 22 (1): 171-178.
34. Chen M, Ye GY©~, Yao HW, Hu C, Shu QY. Impact evaluation of insect-resistant transgenic rice on the feeding and oviposition behavior of its non-target insect, the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens (Homoptera: Delphacidae), Agricultural Sciences in China, 2003, 2(6): 1000-10006.
35. Wu G, Cui H R., Ye G, Xia Y, Sardana R, Cheng X, Li Y, Altossar I. Inheritance and expression of the cry1Ab gene in Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) transgenic rice. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2002, 104(4): 727-734.
36. Shu QY, Cui HR, Ye GY, Wu DX, Xia YW, Gao MW, Altosaar I. Agronomic and morphological characterization of Agrobacterium-transformed Bt rice plants. Euphytica, 2002, 127 (3): 345-352.
37. Wang ZG, Shu QY, Ye GY, Cui HR, Wu DX,? Altosaar I, Xia YW. Genetic analysis of resistance of Bt rice to stripe stem borer (Chilo suppressalis). Euphytica, 2002, 123 (3): 379-386.
38. Wu G, Cui HR, Shu QY, Ye GY, Xia YW, Gao MW, Altosaar I, Li Y. Transcriptional silencing and developmental reactivation of cry1Ab gene in transgenic rice. Science in China Series C-Life Sciences, 2002, 45 (1): 68-78.
39. Wu ZP, Xu BJ, Shu QY, Gong LQ, Yu H, Ye GY, Chen ZY. Studies on the solution conformations of Bt toxic Cry I Ab expressed by Bt transgenic rice. Chemical Journal of Chinese Universities-Chinese, 2002, 23 (6): 1081-1085.
40. Li WD, Ye GY, Wu KM, Wang XQ, Guo YY. Evaluation of impact of pollen grains from Bt, Bt/CpTI transgenic cotton and Bt corn plants on the growth and development of the mulberry silkworm, Bombyx mori Linnaeus (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae). Agricultural Sciences in China, 2002, 1(12): 1334-1343.
41. Ye GY©~, Shu QY, Yao HW, Cui HR, Cheng XY, Hu C, Xia YW, Gao MW, Altosaar I. Field evaluation of resistance of transgenic rice containing a synthetic cry1Ab gene from Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner to two stem borers. Journal of Economic Entomology, 2001, 94(1): 271-276.
42. Ye GY, Tu JM, Hu C, Datta K, Datta SK. Transgenic IR72 with fused Bt gene cry1Ab/cry1Ac from Bacillus thuringiensis is resistant against four lepidopteran species under field conditions. Plant Biotechnology, 2001, 18(2): 125-133.
43. Wang SG, Ye GY©~, Hu C. Effects of Bt rice on the food consumption, growth and survival of Chilo suppressalis larvae under different temperatures. Entomologica Sinica, 2001, 8(3): 218-226.
44. Sun M, Ye GY©~, Hu C. Analysis of the soluble proteins in three species of parasitoids and molecular characteristics of yolk protein in Pteromalus puparum.Entomol. Sinica, 2001, 8(4):298-308.
45. Ye GY©~, Shu QY, Cui HR, Hu C, Gao MW, Xia YW, Cheng X, Altosaar I. A leaf-section bioassay for evaluating rice stem borer resistance in transgenic rice containing a synthetic cry1Ab gene from Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 2000, 90(2): 179-182.
46. Shu QY, Ye GY, Cui HR, Cheng XY, Xiang YB, Wu DX, Gao MW, Xia YW, Hu C, Sardana R, Altosaar, I. Transgenic rice plants with a synthetic cry1Ab gene from Bacillus thuringiensis were highly resistant to eight lepidopteran rice pest species. Molecular Breeding, 2000, 6(4): 433-439.

Selected Books

1. Cohen MB, Chen M, Bentur JS, Heong KL, Ye GY. Bt rice in Asia: potential benefits, impacts and sustainability. In: Romeis J., Shelton A. M. and Kennedy G. G. (eds.), Integration of Insect-Resistant Genetically Modified Crops within IPM Program, Springer, Chapter 8, 2008, 223-248.
2. Ye G Y, Zhu J Y, Zhang Z, Fang Q, Cai J, Hu C. Venom from the endoparasitoid Pteromalus puparum (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) adversely affects host hemocytes: differential toxicity and microstructural and ultrastructural changes in plasmatocytes and granular cells. In: Rivers D. and Yoder Y. (eds.), Recent Advances in the Biochemistry, Toxicity, and Mode of Action of Parasitic Wasp Venoms. Research Singpost, Kerala, India, 2007, Chapter 7, 115-127.
3. Ye Gong-yin (Chief editor). 2006. Plant Protection, Hnagzhou: Zhejiang University Press, 1-540.
4. Ye Gong-yin (Vice editor). 2004. Insect Physiology, Beijing: China Agricultural Publisher, 1-426
5. Ye Gong-yin (Vice editor). 2002. Disease and Insect Pests of Tea Plant (Textbook), Beijing: China Agricultural Publisher, 1-340
6. Ye Gong-yin. 2001. Reproductive Physiology of the Japanese Oak Silkworm, Antheraea yamamai: Development of Internal Reproductive Organs and Its Control Factors. Beijing: High Education Press, 1-323
7. Ye Gongyin (one of editors). 2001. Chapter 2 Molecular physiology of insects, Chapter 10 Transgenic plants with insect resistance. In: Insect Molecular Science (eds in chief, Cheng Jia-an&Tang Zheng-hua), Beijing: Science Press
8. Ye Gongyin (one of editors). 2000. Forensic Entomology (eds. in chief Hu Cui), Chongqing: Chongqing Science and Technology Publisher
9. Hu Cui, Zhu Junqing, Ye Gong-yin and Hong Jian. 1994. Ectropis obliqua Prout, a serious geometrid pest of tea bush in East China. 1-217+16 plates, Shanghai : Shanghai Scientific and Technical Publishers
10. Hu Cui, Hong Jian and Ye Gong-yin et al. 1992. Luehdorfia chinensis Leech, a precious and threatened butterfly. 1-78+72 plates, Shanghai: Shanghai Scientific and Technical Publishers

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