2005年在山东科技大学获学士学位，2008年在中国科学院长春光学精密与物理研究所获硕士学位，2013年在荷兰瓦格宁根大学获博士学位。2013-2018年，先后在阿姆斯特丹自由大学，荷兰莱顿大学开展博后工作。现任中国科学院植物研究所植物光能转化与调控研究组组长。近年来，在PNAS，NC，JACS，JPCL等国际刊物上发表学术论文30余篇。

主要研究工作：

主要研究方向为植物光合作用过程中光能的吸收及转化的物理分子机制及动力学过程，尤其关注在高光胁迫条件下光合生物实现自身光保护的能量调控机制。近年来，在蓝藻、绿藻以及高等植物等多种光合生物体系中的光保护调控分子机制研究中取得了突出成绩.

课题组将继续以分子生物学、超快光谱学、光学动态成像为主要技术手段，从植物光能吸收、转化以及调控的机理出发，围绕提升植物光能转化率这一核心科学问题，开展基础与应用研究。

主持和参加的科研项目：

[1] “禾本科牧草新品种定向分子选育”（2022.11-2025.10），中国科学院战略性先导科技专项A类，课题负责人。

[2] “高效光合元件及模块在异养底盘中的组装与再造”（2020.1-2024.12），国家重点研发计划，课题负责人。

[3] “关于碳四植物光合作用原初反应及光调控过程的时空高分辨荧光寿命成像”（2020.1-2023.12），国家自然科学基金面上项目，项目负责人。

[4] “衣藻种光保护蛋白LhcSR实现非光化学能量猝灭的物理分子机理”（2019.1-2021.12），国家自然科学基金青年项目，项目负责人。

[5] 中国科学院人才计划（2019.3-2024.3），项目负责人。

[6] “黄河三角洲盐碱地复合动态逆境下‘藻-菌-植’互作增强植物耐盐性机制研究”（2024.1-2027.12），国家自然科学基金联合基金项目，项目参与人。

[7] “饲草智能育种加速平台研发”（2022.1-2025.10），中国科学院战略性先导科技专项A类，子课题参与人。

[8] “绿色植物PSHI-LHCI结构演化对其吸能、传能和转能微观动力学过程的影响”（2019.12-2024.12），地方自然科学基金，课题参与人。

[9] “光合膜蛋白研究创新交叉团队-光系统和捕光天线的结构功能与调控”（2021.1-2023.12），中国科学院创新交叉团队项目，项目参与人。

研究论文：

2024

Mengyuan Zheng,Xiaojie Pang,Ming Chen,Lijin Tian*. 2024. Ultrafast energy quenching mechanism of LHCSR3-dependent photoprotection in Chlamydomonas. Nat. Commun., 15(2024):4437.

Shuaiqi Zhu,Huanling Yang,Song Bin,Meimei Wang,Tingting You,Xiaobo Li,Lijin Tian,Arthur R. Grossman,Shan Lu,Wenqiang Yang. 2024. Greencut protein LPB1 is required for SQDG accumulation and optimal photosynthetic electron transfer from Q_A to Q_B in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Algal Res.,79(2024):103456.

Huan Zhang,Xiaofeng Xiong,Kangning Guo,Mengyuan Zheng,Tianjun Cao,Yuqing Yang,Jiaojiao Song,Jie Cen,Jiahuan Zhang,Yanyou Jiang,Shan Feng,Lijin Tian,Xiaobo Li. 2024. A rapid aureochrome opto-switch enables diatom acclimation to dynamic light. Nat. Commun.,15(2024):5578.

Anjie Li,Tingting You,Xiaojie Pang,Yidi Wang,Lijin Tian,Xiaobo Li,Zhenfeng Liu. 2024. Structural basis for an early stage of the photosystem II repair cycle in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Nat. Commun.,15(2024):5211.

2023

Xiaojie Pang,Wojciech J. Nawrocki,PierreCardol,Mengyuan Zheng,Jingjing Jiang,Yuan Fang,Wenqiang Yang,Roberta Croce,Lijin Tian*. 2023. Weak acids produced during anaerobic respiration suppress both photosynthesis and aerobic respiration. Nat. Commun., 14(2023):4207.

Mengyuan Zheng,Cuicui Zhou,Wenda Wang*,Tingyun Kuang,Jianren Shen,Lijin Tian*. 2023. Origin of energy dissipation in the oligomeric fucoxanthin-chlorophyll a/c binding proteins. J. Phys. Chem., 14(2023):7967-7974.

Yinjie Guo,Qiuxin Li,Daili Ji,Lijin Tian,Jörg Meurer,Wei Chi. 2023. A ubiquitin-based module directing protein-protein interactions in chloroplasts. Int. J. Mol. Sci., 24(2023):16673.

2022

Yuan Fang,Dongyang Liu,Jingjing Jiang,Axin He,Rui Zhu,Lijin Tian*. 2022. Photoprotective energy quenching in the red alga Porphyridium purpureum occurs at the core antenna of the photosystem II but not at its reaction center. J. Biol. Chem.,295(43):14546-14547.

Ming Chen,Yujie He,Dongyang Liu,Lijin Tian,Pengqi Xu,Xuan Liu,Yihang Pan,Shuqi Dong,Jun He,Ying Zhang. 2022. Structure insights into photosystem I octamer from cyanobacteria. Front. Microbiol.,13(2022):876122.

Thomas Roach,Eunchul Kim,Lijin Tian,Bernard Lepetit. 2022. Editorial: regulation of light-harvesting systems during acclimation of photosynthetic organisms. Front. Plant Sci., 13(2022):914047.

2021

Yaru Xie,Lei Chen,Tao Sun,Jingjing Jiang,Lijin Tian,Jinyu Cui,Weiwen Zhang. 2021. A transporter Slr1512 involved in bicarbonate and pH-dependent acclimation mechanism to high light stress in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. BBA Bioenerg.,1862(1):148336.

Yanxin Du,Weiping Mo,Tingting Ma,Weijiang Tang,Lijin Tian,Rongcheng Lin. 2021. A pentatricopeptide repeat protein DUA1 interacts with sigma factor 1 to regulate chloroplast gene expression in rice. Photosynth Res.,147(2):131-143.

Faezeh Nami,Lijin Tian,Martina Huber,Roberta Croce,Anjali Pandit. 2021. Lipid and protein dynamics of stacked and cation-depletion induced unstacked thylakoid membranes. BBA Adv.,1(2021):100015.

2020

Lijin Tian. 2020. Entropy provides an unexpected shield in photosynthesis. J. Biol. Chem., 295(43):14546-14547.

Peng Cao,Duanfang Cao,Long Si,Xiaodong Su,Lijin Tian,Wenrui Chang,Zhenfeng Liu,Xinzheng Zhang,Mei Li. 2020.Structural basis for energy and electron transfer of the photosystem I-IsiA-flavodoxin supercomplex.Nat. Plants,6(2):167-176.

2019

Lijin Tian^*,Wojciech J. Nawrocki,Xin Liu,Iryna Polukhina,Ivo H. M. van Stokkum,and Roberta Croce^*. 2019. pH dependence,kinetics and light-harvesting regulation of nonphotochemical quenching in Chlamydomonas. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 116(17):8320-8325.

2018

Ivo H. M. van Stokkum,Michal Gwizdala,Lijin Tian,Joris J. Snellenburg,Rienk van Grondelle,Herbert van Amerongen,Rudi Berera. 2018. A functional compartmental model of the Synechocystis PCC 6803 phycobilisome. Photosynth. Res., 135(1-3):87-102.

2017

Lijin Tian^#,Pengqi Xu^#,Volha U. Chukhutsina,Alfred R. Holzwarth,and Roberta Croce. 2017. Zeaxanthin-dependent nonphotochemical quenching does not occur in photosystem I in the higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.USA.,114(18):4828-4832.

Inge Bos,Kaitlyn M. Bland,Lijin Tian,Roberta Croce,Laurie K. Frankel,Herbert van Amerongen,Terry M. Bricker,Emilie Wientjes. 2017. Multiple LHCII antennae can transfer energy efficiently to a single photosystem I. Biochi. Biophy. Acta.,1858(5):371-378.

2016

Emine Dinc^#,Lijin Tian^#,Laura M. Roy,Robyn Roth,Ursula Goodenough,Roberta Croce. 2016. LHCSR1 induces a fast and reversible pH-dependent fluorescence quenching in LHCII in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells,Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA,113(27):7673-7678.

2015

Lijin Tian,Emine Dinc,Roberta Croce. 2015. LHCII populations in different quenching states are present in the thylakoid membranes in a ratio that depends on the light conditions. J. Phys. Chem. Lett.,6(12):2339-2344.

Pengqi Xu,Lijin Tian,Miroslav Kloz,Roberta Croce. 2015. Molecular insights into zeaxanthin dependent quenching in higher plants. Sci. Rep., 5: 13679.

Clotilde Le Quiniou,Lijin Tian,Bartlomiej Drop,Emilie Wientjes,Ivo H. M. van Stokkum,Bart van Oort,and Roberta Croce. 2015. PSI-LHCI of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: increasing the absorption cross section without losing efficiency. Biochi. Biophy. Acta.,1847(4):458-467.

2013

Ron Gill,Lijin Tian,Herbert van Amerongen,Vinod Subramaniam. 2013. Emission enhancement and lifetime modification of phosphorescence on silver nanoparticle aggregates. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 15: 15734-15739.

Lijin Tian,Shazia Farooq,Herbert van Amerongen. 2013.Probing the picosecond kinetics of the photosystem II core complex in vivo. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 15(9):3146-3154.

Lijin Tian,Ivo H M van Stokkum,Rob B M Koehorst,Herbert van Amerongen. 2013.Light harvesting and blue-green light induced non-photochemical quenching in two different C-phycocyanin mutants of Synechocystis PCC 6803.J. Phys. Chem. B., 117(38):11000-11006.

V. V. Chukhutsina,Lijin Tian,Ghada. Ajlani,and H. van Amerongen. 2013. Time-resolved fluorescence of photosystem I in vivo: global and target analysis. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Photosynthesis August 22-27,2010 Beijing,China.

2012

Lijin Tian,Michal Gwizdala,Ivo H. M. van Stokkum,Rob B. M. Koehorst,Diana Kirilovsky,and Herbert van Amerongen. 2012. Picosecond kinetics of light harvesting and photoprotective quenching in wild-type and mutant phycobilisomes isolated from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803. Biophys. J.,102(7):1692-1700.

R. Gill,Lijin Tian,W. R. C. Somerville,E. C. Le Ru,Herbert van Amerongen,and Vinod Subramaniam. 2012. Silver nanoparticle aggregates as highly efficient plasmonic antennas for fluorescence enhancement. J. Phys. Chem., 116(31):16687-16693.

2011

Lijin Tian,Ivo H. M. van Stokkum,Rob B. M. Koehorst,Aniek Jongerius,Diana Kirilovsky,and Herbert van Amerongen. 2011. Site,rate,and mechanism of photoprotective quenching in cyanobacteria. J. Am. Chem., 133(45):18304-18311.

2010及以前

Kai Song,Lijin Tian,Xianggui Kong,Kai Liu,Qingbin Zhang,Chuang Du,Qinghui Zeng,Yajuan Sun,Xiaomin Liu. 2010. Preparation,characterization and specific biological labeling of silica coated up-conversion fluorescent nanocrystals. Spec. Spectra. Anal., 30(1):133-136.

Junwei Zhao,Yajuan Sun,Xianggui Kong,Lijin Tian,Yu Wang,Langping Tu,Jialong Zhao,Hong Zhang. 2008.Controlled synthesis,formation mechanism,and great enhancement of red upconversion luminescence of NaYF4:Yb³⁺,Er³⁺ nanocrystals/submicroplates at low doping level. J. Phys. Chem., 112: 15666-15672.

Lijin Tian,Y. Sun,Y. Yu,X. Kong,and H. Zhang. 2008. Surface effect of nano-phosphors studied by time-resolved spectroscopy of Ce³⁺. Chem. Phys. Lett., 452(1-3):188-192.

Y Yang,Y Yu,Y Sun,Y Zhang,Q Zeng,X Liu,Lijin Tian,X Kong,H Zhang. 2008. Assembly and chemical luminescence of porous nano-silica with luminal. Lumin.,23(2):105

Y. Sun,Y. Chen,Lijin Tian,Y.Yu,X. Kong,J. Zhao,and H. Zhang. 2008. Controlled synthesis and morphology dependent upconversion luminescence of NaYF4:Yb,Er nanocrystals. Nanotech., 18(27).

Y. Sun,Y. Chen,Lijin Tian,Y. Yu,X.Kong,Q. Zeng,Y. Zhang,and H. Zhang. 2007. Morphology dependent upconversion luminescence of ZnO:Er³⁺ nanocrystals. J. Lumin., 128(15).