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Zhangmeijia

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Email: zhangmeijia@scut.edu.cn

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Office Location: B2-516

Search: Reproductive Physiology and Development

About

Zhang Meijia, Professor, Doctor. Selected for the New Century Excellent Talents Support Program of the Ministry of Education in 2011. National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2014). Graduated from the Department of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest Agricultural University in 1994, with a Bachelor's degree in agriculture. In the same year, he/she was recommended to pursue a master's degree at this university. In 1997, I was assigned to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding to conduct research on the reproductive biology of giant pandas and other wild animals. From 2000 to 2001, I conducted collaborative research at the College of Resources and Environment, Kyushu University, Japan. In 2002, I was admitted to the College of Biology at China Agricultural University to pursue a doctoral degree. In 2005, I obtained a Doctor of Science degree and remained at the university to engage in scientific research and teaching. November 2019, School of Medicine, South China University of Technology. From July 2009 to September 2010, I was a visiting scholar in the laboratory of Academician John Eppig, an internationally renowned reproductive biologist at the Jackson Institute in the United States. During this period, it was confirmed using genetically mutated mice that C-type natriuretic peptide (NPPC) was an oocyte maturation arrest factor. In Science, Theranostics, Cell Death Dis, Commun Biol, Cell Mol Life Sci, Int J Mol Sci, Biol Reprod, Endocrinology, Mol Human More than 70 papers have been published in journals such as Reprod. For a long time, I have been engaged in the research on the molecular mechanisms of primordial follicular activation, oocyte maturation and fertilization, and have taught physiology.


Main academic achievements: The discovery that C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP/NPPC) expressed by granulosa cells is an oocyte maturation inhibitor confirmed the speculation made in 1935.


Education

2002-09-2005-06, China Agricultural University, Physiology, Doctor


1994-09-1997-06, Northwest Agricultural University, Veterinary Obstetrics, Master's Degree


1989-08-1994-06, Northwest Agricultural University, Veterinary Medicine, Bachelor's Degree


Admission Information

WorkExperience

Since November 2019, South China University of Technology, Reproductive Physiology and Development


July 2009 - September 2010, Jackson Laboratory, USA, oocyte meiosis arrest


July 20, 2005, 19-10, China Agricultural University, Reproductive Biology Research


October 2000 - June 2001, Kyushu University, Japan, Oocyte cryopreservation research


July 20, 1997, 02-08, Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, Research on Giant Panda breeding


Social Position

Associate Editor of Journal of Ovarian Research

Associate Editor of Animal Models and Experimental Medicine

Director of the Reproductive Biology Branch of the Zoological Society of China


Research

Mainly engaged in research related to reproductive physiology and development. Relying on the scientific research platform of the Innovation Center for Basic Research on Development and Disease Medicine of the Ministry of Education, in collaboration with the Reproductive Center of the affiliated clinical hospital, a series of scientific studies have been carried out using the conditional gene knockout mouse model, mainly including:


1) The molecular mechanism of primordial follicle activation

2) Molecular regulation of follicular development and maturation

3) The important role of histone modification in maintaining the gonads of adult mammals;

4) The role of palmitoylation modification in sperm maturation.


These research works will lay the foundation for clinical applications such as in vivo fertility protection for patients with early-onset ovarian insufficiency (POI) and chemotherapy patients in clinical practice.


Open Course

Undergraduate course: Physiology


Master's Degree program: Advances in Physiology and Medicine


Doctoral Program: Advances in Physiology and Pathology Research


Research Project

1. Research on the Initiation Regulatory Factors of Primordial Follicle Activation and the Screening and clinical Application of Targeted Oral Drugs, Key Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China Regional Innovation Development Joint Fund, 2025-2028, Project Leader;


2. The Role and Mechanism of Myelocytoma Virus Oncogene MYC in Follicular Development and Maturation, National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program, 2023-2026, Project Leader;


3. Research on Key Mechanisms of Freezing and thawing of Germ Cells and gonadal Tissues and Development and application of New Functional Repair Technologies, Key Special Project of Reproductive Health and Women and Children's Health Security of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Sub-project leader, 2022-2025


4. The Role and Molecular Mechanism of CXXC zinc Finger Protein 1 (CFP1) in Follicular Development in Granulosa Cells, National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program, 2020-2023, Project Leader;


5. Research on the Role and Mechanism of Follicular Microenvironment and Ovarian Lesions in Affecting Oocyte Development and Maturation, Key Special Project of the Key Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 2018-2021, Project Leader;


6. Oocyte Meiosis, National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 2015-2019, Project Leader;


7. Molecular Mechanism of Elevated Calcium Ion Levels in Cumulus Cells by LH-EGFR Signaling, General Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2018-2021, Project Leader;


8. Research on the Mechanism of Human Fertility Decline and New Strategies for Protection and Preservation, Key Research and Development Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 2017-2020, Sub-project Leader;


9. Molecular Mechanisms Determining Oocyte Quality, National Major Scientific Research Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 2014-2018, Sub-Project Leader;


10. Molecular Mechanism of Gonadotropin Regulation of C-type Natriuretic Peptide and Its Receptor Expression, General Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2013-2016, Project Leader;


11. Molecular Basis of Meiosis in Female Germ Cells, National Key Basic Research Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 2012-2016, Project Leader;


12. Expression Regulation Mechanism of NPR2 receptor, Ministry of Education's New Century Excellent Talent Support Program, 2011-2013, Project Leader;


13. Expression Changes of cardiac natriuretic peptide in Fallopian tubes and Its role and mechanism in fertilization, National Natural Science Foundation of China General Project, 2007-2009, Project Leader;


Thesis

Achievements

  • The Encyclopedia of Reproduction,Elsevier Inc.,2024
  • Development of in Vitro Maturation for Human Oocytes: Natural and Mild Approaches to Clinical Infertility Treatment,Springer International Publishing AG,2017

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Honor

  • 促性腺激素调控卵母细胞成熟的机制及相关关键靶分子的应用潜能,中国农业大学,张美佳,2022年12月,教育部自然科学奖,二等

Software achievement