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(Co-) First author/corresponding author

  1. Xiaogao Meng#, Wenjia Li#, Jian Xu, Yao Yao, An Gong, Yumeng Yang , Fangfang Qu, Chenkai Guo, Hui Zheng, Guizhong Cui+, Shengbao Suo+, Guangdun Peng+. Spatiotemporal transcriptome atlas of developing mouse lung. Science Bulletin,,2025, 70(10): 1641-58.

  2. Jiaxin Yang, Wenjing Sun, Guizhong Cui+. Roles of the NR2F Family in the Development, Disease, and Cancer of the Lung. Journal of Developmental Biology, 2024, 12(3): 24.

  3. Fangfang Qu#, Wenjia Li#, Jian Xu#, Ruifang Zhang, Jincan Ke, Xiaodie Ren, Xiaogao Meng, Lexin Qin, Jingna Zhang, Fangru Lu, Xin Zhou, Xi Luo, Zhen Zhang, Minhan Wang, Guangming Wu, Duanqing Pei, Jiekai Chen, Guizhong Cui+, Shengbao Suo+, Guangdun Peng+. Three-dimensional molecular architecture of mouse organogenesis. Nature Communications, 2023, 14(1): 4599.

  4. Xiaogao Meng, Guizhong Cui+, Guangdun Peng+. Lung development and regeneration: newly defined cell types and progenitor status. Cell Regeneration, 2023, 12(1): 5.

  5. Shai Ovadia#, Guizhong Cui#, Ran Elkon, Mazal Cohen-Gulkar, Nitay Zuk-Bar, Tran Tuoc, Naihe Jing+, Ruth Ashery-Padan+. SWI/SNF complexes are required for retinal pigmented epithelium differentiation and for the inhibition of cell proliferation and neural differentiation programs. Development, 2023, 150(16): dev201488.

  6. Guizhong Cui# Su Feng#, Yaping Yan#, Li Wang, Xiechao He, Xi Li, Yanchao Duan, Jun Chen, Patrick P.L. Tam, Ke Tang, Ping Zheng, Wei Si+, Naihe Jing+, Guangdun Peng+. Spatial molecular anatomy of germ layers in the gastrulating Cynomolgus monkey embryo. Cell Reports, 2022, 40(9): 111285-111285.

  7. Qing Xia#, Guizhong Cui#, Ye Fan#, Xiuqin Wang, Gongcheng Hu, Lisha Wang, Xi Luo, Lele Yang, Qingqing Cai, Kaibiao Xu, Wenjing Guo, Minghui Gao, Yingying Li, Ji Wu, Wei Li, Jiayu Chen, Huayu Qi, Guangdun Peng+, Hongjie Yao+. RNA helicase DDX5 acts as a critical regulator for survival of neonatal mouse gonocytes. Cell Proliferation, 2021, 54(5): e13000.

  8. Di Demi He#, Xinyu Thomas Tang#, Wenjie Dong#, Guizhong Cui#, Guangdun Peng, Xiujuan Yin, Yujie Chen, Naihe Jing, Bo O. Zhou+. C-KIT Expression Distinguishes Fetal from Postnatal Skeletal Progenitors. Stem Cell Reports, 2020, 14(4): 614-30.

  9. Guangdun Peng#+, Shengbao Suo#, Guizhong Cui#, Fang Yu#, Ran Wang, Jun Chen, Shirui Chen, Zhiwen Liu, Guoyu Chen, Yun Qian, Patrick P. L. Tam, Jing-Dong J. Han+, Naihe Jing+. Molecular architecture of lineage allocation and tissue organization in early mouse embry. Nature, 2019, 572(7770): 528-32.

  10. Qiaozhen Liu#, Kuo Liu#, Guizhong Cui#, Xiuzhen Huang, Shun Yao, Wenke Guo, Zhen Qin, Yan Li, Rui Yang, Wenjuan Pu, Libo Zhang, Lingjuan He, Huan Zhao, Wei Yu, Muxue Tang, Xueying Tian, Dongqing Cai, Yu Nie, Shengshou Hu, Tao Ren, Zengyong Qiao, Hefeng Huang, Yi Arial Zeng, Naihe Jing, Guangdun Peng+, Hongbin Ji+, Bin Zhou+. Lung regeneration by multipotent stem cells residing at the bronchioalveolar-duct junction. Nature Genetics, 2019, 51(4): 728-38.

  11. Guizhong Cui, Naihe Jing+, Guangdun Peng+. Comments on ‘Molecular architecture of lineage allocation and tissue organization in early mouse embryo’. Journal of Molecular Cell Biology, 2019, 11(11): 1024-5.

  12. Guizhong Cui, Jun Chen, Shirui Chen, Yun Qian, Guangdun Peng+, Naihe Jing+. Spatio-temporal transcriptome construction of early mouse embryo with Geo-seq and Auto-seq. Protocol Exchange, 2019, 10.21203: /rs.2.10081/v1.

  13. Guizhong Cui#, Shengbao Suo#, Ran Wang, Yun Qian, Jing-Dong J. Han+, Guangdun Peng+, Patrick P. L. Tam+, Naihe Jing+. Mouse gastrulation: Attributes of transcription factor regulatory network for epiblast patterning. Development, Growth & Differentiation, 2018, 60(8): 463-72.

Co-author

  1. Jie Li, Jie Li, Jing Cao, ShenShen Shang, Liansheng Zhang, Fei Gao, Jiqiang Fu, Hongyu Chen,Guizhong Cui, Haoyuan Wu, Xiaolong Wang, Alfonso Martinez-Arias, Qiang Sun & Zhen Liu.Modelling late gastrulation in stem cell-derived monkey embryo models. Nature, 2025.
  2. Ke Jincan, Xu Jian, Liu Jia, Yang Yumeng, Guo Chenkai, Xie Bingbing,Guizhong Cui, Peng Guangdun, Suo Shengbao. High-resolution mapping of single cells in spatial context. Nature Communications, 2025, 16(1): 6533.）
  3. Fuqing Jiang, Haoxian Wang, Zhuxia Li, Guizhong Cui, Guangdun Peng. Leveraging spatial multiomics to unravel tissue architecture in embryo development. Trends in Genetics, 2024, S0168-9525(24): 00271-3.
  4. Meng Liu, Jiehui Chen, Guizhong Cui, Yumin Dai, Mengjiao Song, Chunyu Zhou, Qingyuan Hu, Qingxia Chen, Hongwei Wang, Wanli Chen, Jingdong Jackie Han, Guangdun Peng, Naihe Jing, Yidong Shen. Germline loss in +C. elegans+ enhances longevity by disrupting adhesion between niche and stem cells. The EMBO Journal, 2024, 43(18): 4000-19.
  5. Zeqing Wang, Zhuxia Li, Tianle Luan, Guizhong Cui, Shunpan Shu, Yiyao Liang, Kai Zhang, Jingshu Xiao, Wei Yu, Jihong Cui, Ang Li, Guangdun Peng, Yanshan Fang. A spatiotemporal molecular atlas of mouse spinal cord injury identifies a distinct astrocyte subpopulation and therapeutic potential of IGFBP2. Developmental Cell, 2024, 59(20): 2787-803.e8.
  6. Ran Wang, Xianfa Yang, Jiehui Chen, Lin Zhang, Jonathan A. Griffiths, Guizhong Cui, Yingying Chen, Yun Qian, Guangdun Peng, Jinsong Li, Liantang Wang, John C. Marioni, Patrick P. L. Tam, Naihe Jing. Time space and single-cell resolved tissue lineage trajectories and laterality of body plan at gastrulation. Nature Communications, 2023, 14(1): 5675.
  7. Qing Li, Jiansen Lu, Xidi Yin, Yunjian Chang, Chao Wang, Meng Yan, Li Feng, Yanbo Cheng, Yun Gao, Beiying Xu, Yao Zhang, Yingyi Wang, Guizhong Cui, Luang Xu, Yidi Sun, Rong Zeng, Yixue Li, Naihe Jing, Guo-Liang Xu, Ligang Wu, Fuchou Tang, Jinsong Li. Base editing-mediated one-step inactivation of the Dnmt gene family reveals critical roles of DNA methylation during mouse gastrulation. Nature Communications, 2023, 14(1): 2922.
  8. Fuqing Jiang, Xin Zhou, Yingying Qian, Miao Zhu, Li Wang, Zhuxia Li, Qingmei Shen, Minhan Wang, Fangfang Qu, Guizhong Cui, Kai Chen, Guangdun Peng. Simultaneous profiling of spatial gene expression and chromatin accessibility during mouse brain development. Nature Methods, 2023, 20(7): 1048-57.
  9. Qing Cissy Yu, Lanyue Bai, Yingying Chen, Yujie Chen, Guangdun Peng, Daisong Wang, Guowei Yang, Guizhong Cui, Naihe Jing, Yi Arial Zeng. Embryonic vascular establishment requires protein C receptor-expressing endothelial progenitors. Development, 2022, 149(12): dev200419.
  10. Zhiqi Li, Jun Xiao, Xiaoyan Xu, Weiyun Li, Ruiyue Zhong, Linlin Qi, Jiehui Chen, Guizhong Cui, Shuang Wang, Yuxiao Zheng, Ying Qiu, Sheng Li, Xin Zhou, Yao Lu, Jiaying Lyu, Bin Zhou, Jiawei Zhou, Naihe Jing, Bin Wei, Jin Hu, Hongyan Wang. M-CSF, IL-6, and TGF-β, promote generation of a new subset of tissue repair macrophage for traumatic brain injury recovery. Science Advances, 2021, 7(11): eabb6260.
  11. Guangdun Peng, Guizhong Cui, Jincan Ke, Naihe Jing. Using Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomes to Understand Stem Cell Lineage Specification During Early Embryo Development. Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, 2020, 21(1): 163-81.
  12. Yifei Zhou, Xueqing Wang, Mengjiao Song, Zhidong He, Guizhong Cui, Guangdun Peng, Christoph Dieterich, Adam Antebi, Naihe Jing, Yidong Shen. A secreted microRNA disrupts autophagy in distinct tissues of Caenorhabditis elegans upon ageing. Nature Communications, 2019, 10(1): 4827.
  13. Wei Yu, Xueyan Ma, Jinjin Xu, Andreas Wilhelm Heumüller, Zhaoliang Fei, Xue Feng, Xiaodong Wang, Kuo Liu, Jinhui Li, Guizhong Cui, Guangdun Peng, Hongbin Ji, Jinsong Li, Naihe Jing, Hai Song, Zhiqiang Lin, Yun Zhao, Zuoyun Wang, Bin Zhou, Lei Zhang. VGLL4 plays a critical role in heart valve development and homeostasis. PLOS Genetics, 2019, 15(2): e1007977.
  14. Yuanyuan Xue, Denghui Liu, Guizhong Cui, Yanyan Ding, Daosheng Ai, Suwei Gao, Yifan Zhang, Shengbao Suo, Xiaohan Wang, Peng Lv, Chunyu Zhou, Yizhou Li, Xingwei Chen, Guangdun Peng, Naihe Jing, Jing-Dong J. Han, Feng Liu. A 3D Atlas of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Expansion by Multi-dimensional RNA-Seq Analysis. Cell Reports, 2019, 27(5): 1567-78.e5.
  15. Yuyu Niu, Nianqin Sun, Chang Li, Ying Lei, Zhihao Huang, Jun Wu, Chenyang Si, Xi Dai, Chuanyu Liu, Jingkuan Wei, Longqi Liu, Su Feng, Yu Kang, Wei Si, Hong Wang, E. Zhang, Lu Zhao, Ziwei Li, Xi Luo, Guizhong Cui, Guangdun Peng, Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, Weizhi Ji, Tao Tan. Dissecting primate early post-implantation development using long-term in vitro embryo culture. Science, 2019, 366(6467): eaaw5754.
  16. Chang Liu, Ran Wang, Zhisong He, Pierre Osteil, Emilie Wilkie, Xianfa Yang, Jun Chen, Guizhong Cui, Wenke Guo, Yingying Chen, Guangdun Peng, Patrick P. L. Tam, Naihe Jing. Suppressing Nodal Signaling Activity Predisposes Ectodermal Differentiation of Epiblast Stem Cells. Stem Cell Reports, 2018, 11(1): 43-57.
  17. Xue Han, Sai Luo, Guangdun Peng, J Yuyang Lu, Guizhong Cui, Lichao Liu, Pixi Yan, Yafei Yin, Wei Liu, Ran Wang, Jiejie Zhang, Shanshan Ai, Zai Chang, Jie Na, Aibin He, Naihe Jing, Xiaohua Shen. Mouse knockout models reveal largely dispensable but context-dependent functions of lncRNAs during development. Journal of Molecular Cell Biology, 2018, 10(2): 175-8.
  18. Neophytos Christodoulou, Christos Kyprianou, Antonia Weberling, Ran Wang, Guizhong Cui, Guangdun Peng, Naihe Jing, Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz. Sequential formation and resolution of multiple rosettes drive embryo remodelling after implantation. Nature Cell Biology, 2018, 20(11): 1278-89.
  19. Guangdun Peng, Shengbao Suo, Jun Chen, Weiyang Chen, Chang Liu, Fang Yu, Ran Wang, Shirui Chen, Na Sun, Guizhong Cui, Lu Song, Patrick p L. Tam, Jing-Dong j Han, Naihe Jing. Spatial Transcriptome for the Molecular Annotation of Lineage Fates and Cell Identity in Mid-gastrula Mouse Embryo. Developmental Cell, 2016, 36(6): 681-97.