1970年12月出生于江苏省句容市，1992年四川大学学士,1997年兰州大学博士，同年进入芬兰图尔库大学从事博士后研究，曾在中国科学院寒区旱区环境与工程研究所、兰州大学工作，2000年度中国科学院“百人计划”。 2007年获国家自然科学杰出基金资助。曾任中国科学院植物研究所副所长。现任国际光合作用协会执委会委员，中国植物生理学会常务理事、生物物理学会常务理事，植物学会副秘书长。Photosynthesis Research副主编，Advance in Photosynthesis and Respiration, Molecular Plant, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology,《生物物理学报》等刊物编委。

主要研究工作：

1.光合膜复合物生成和降解的分子机理

从突变体筛选和蛋白质互作等方法筛选光合膜复合物生成和降解的调控因子，研究重要调控蛋白的作用方式和作用机制，进而阐释其相互作用的调控机理。

2.质核信号转导机理

研究叶绿体与细胞核之间信号传导的本质，以及叶绿体信号调控光合作用的分子机理，并探讨质核信号在植物生长发育中作用。

研究论文（注*为通讯作者）：

2019

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

2018

Jiang T, Zhang J, Rong LW, Feng YJ, Wang Q, Song QL, Zhang LX, Ouyang M*. 2018. ECD1 functions as an RNA-editing trans-factor of rps14-149 in plastids and is required for early chloroplast development in seedlings. J. Exp. Bot., 69: 3037–3051.

2017

Ouyang M, Li X, Zhao S, Pu H, Shen J, Adam Z, Clausen T, Zhang LX. 2017. The crystal structure of Deg9 reveals a novel octameric-type HtrA protease. Nat. Plants, 3:973-982.

Mu Y, Zou M, Sun X, He B, Xu X, Liu Y, Zhang LX, 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

Xu Xiumei, Chi Wei, Sun Xuwu, Feng Peiqiang, Guo Hailong, Li Jing, Lin Rongcheng, Lu Congming, Wang Haiyang, Leister Dario, Zhang Lixin*. 2016. Convergence of light and chloroplast signals for de-etiolation through ABI4-HY5 and COP1. Nature Plants, 2: 16066.

Guo Hailong, Feng Peiqiang, Chi Wei, Sun Xuwu, Xu Xiumei, Li Yuan, Ren Dongtao, Lu Congming, Rochaix Jean-David, Leister Dario, Zhang Lixin*. 2016. Plastid-nucleus communication involves calcium-modulated MAPK signalling. Nature Communications, 7: 12173.

Feng Peiqiang, Guo Hailong, Chi Wei, Chai Xin, Sun Xuwu, Xu Xiumei, Ma Jinfang, Rochaix Jean-David, Leister Dario, Wang Haiyang, Lu Congming, Zhang Lixin*. 2016. Chloroplast retrograde signal regulates flowering. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113: 10708-10713.

2015

Chi Wei, Feng Peiqiang, Ma Jinfang, Zhang Lixin*. 2015. Metabolites and chloroplast retrograde signaling. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 25: 32–38.

Mao Juan, Chi Wei, Ouyang Min, He Baoye, Chen Fan, Zhang Lixin*. 2015. PAB is an assembly chaperone that functions downstream of chaperonin 60 in the assembly of chloroplast ATP synthase coupling factor 1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA, 112: 4152-4157.

2014

Chi Wei, He Baoye, Manavski Nikolay, Mao Juan, Ji Daili, Lu Congming, Rochaix Jean David, Meurer J, Zhang Lixin. 2014. RHON1mediates a Rho-like activity for transcription termination in plastids of Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Cell, DOI:10.1105.

2013

Chi, W., Sun, X., & Zhang, L. . 2013. Intracellular signaling from plastid to nucleus. Annual Review of Plant Biology, 64(1), 559-582.

2012

Chi, W., Ma, J.F., Zhang, L.X.*. 2012. Regulatory factors for the assembly of thylakoid membrane protein complexes. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Biol. 367: 3420-3429. (invited review)

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

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

Xiao, J.W., Li, J., Ouyang, M., Yun, T., He, B.Y., Ji, D.L., Ma, J.F., Chi, W., Lu, C.M., Zhang, L.X.*. 2012. DAC is involved in the accumulation of the cytochrome b6/f complex in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. 160 (2012): 1911-1922.

Ji, D.L., Lin, H., Chi, W., Zhang, L.X.*. 2012. CpLEPA is critical for chloroplast protein synthesis under suboptimal conditions in Arabidopsis thaliana.PLoS ONE7 (2012): doi:10.1371

2011

Sun, X.W., Feng, P.Q., Xu, X.M., Guo, H.L., Ma, J.F., Chi, W., Lin, R.C., Lu, C.M., Zhang, L.X.*.2011. A chloroplast envelope bound PHD transcription factor mediates chloroplast signals to the nucleus. Nature Commun. 2011, 2: 477.

Ouyang, M., Li, X.Y., Ma, J.F., Chi, W., Xiao, J.W., Zou, M.J., Chen, F., Lu, C.M. and Zhang, L.X.*.2011. LTD is essential for sorting of LHCP to the chloroplast SRP pathway. Nature Commun. 2: 277.

2010及以前

Chi, W., Mao, J., Li, Q., Ji, D.L., Zou, M.J., Lu, C.M. and Zhang, L.X.*. 2010. Interaction of the pentatricopeptide-repeat protein DELAYED GREENING1 with sigma factor SIG6 in the regulation of chloroplast gene expression in Arabidopsis cotyledons. Plant J. 64: 14-25.

Sun, X.W., Ouyang, M., Guo, J.K., Ma, J.F., Lu, C.M., Adam, Z., and Zhang, L.X.*. 2010. The thylakoid protease Deg1 is involved in photosystem-II assembly in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J. 62: 240-249.

Wei, L.L., Guo, J.K., Ouyang, M., Sun, X.W., Ma, J.F., Chi, W., Lu, C.M. and Lixin Zhang*. 2010. LPA19, a PSB27 homolog in Arabidopsis thaliana, facilitates D1 protein precursor processing during PSII biogenesis. J. Biol. Chem. 285: 21391-21398.

Sun, X.W, Fu, T.J., Chen, N., Guo, J.K., Ma, J.F., Zou, M.J., Lu, C.M., Lixin Zhang*.2010 .The stromal chloroplast Deg7 protease participates in the repair of photosystem II after photoinhibition in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 152: 1263-1273.

Cai, W.H., Ji, D.L., Peng, L.W., Guo, J.K., Ma, J.F., Zou, M.J., Lu, C.M. and Zhang, L.X.*. 2009. LPA66 is required for editing psbF chloroplast transcripts in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 150: 1260-1271.

Chi, W., Ma, J.F., Zhang, D.Y., Guo, J.K., Chen, F., Lu, C.M. and Zhang, L.X.*. 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.

Sun, X.W., Peng, L.W., Guo, J.K., Chi, W., Ma, J.F., Lu, C.M. and Zhang, L.X*.2007. Formation of DEG5 and DEG8 complexes and their involvement in the degradation of photodamaged photosystem II reaction center D1 protein in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell 19: 1347-1361.

Peng, L.W., Ma, J.F., Chi, W., Guo, J.K., Zhu, S.Y., Lu, Q.T., Lu, C.M. and Zhang, L.X.*.2006. Low PSII Accumulation1 is involved in efficient assembly of photosystem II in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell 18: 955-969.

获奖及荣誉：

2007年新世纪百千万人才工程国家级人选

2009年北京市青年科技奖

2009年中国青年科技奖