魏鹏程，男，2008年于中国农业大学获植物学博士学位，先后在加州大学伯克利分校和佛罗里达州立大学做博士后研究。2011-2021年历任安徽省农业科学院农业工程所、水稻所助理研究员、副研究员、研究员；现任威尼斯欢乐娱人城AⅤ大中国教授。
主讲课程：
科研情况：
长期从事作物生物技术应用基础研究；主持国家自然科学基金项目、转基因重大专项（子课题）等十多项；申请发明专利近百件，以第一发明人获国家发明专利授权33件；在国际知名刊物Nature Plants，Molecular plant, Plant Cell等中发表SCI学术论文40多篇，其中近5年以通讯作者发表20多篇，多篇论文入选ESI 热点或焦点论文。
获奖情况：
安徽省青年“五四”奖章 （2019年）
农业部“杰出青年农业科学家”人才称号 （2016年）
安徽省青年科技奖 （2015年）
安徽省科技一等奖1项 （第三完成人， 2014年）
论文论著：
◾近期部分通讯作者论文：
◾Rongfang Xu., Xiaoshuang Liu., Juan Li, Ruiying Qin and Pengcheng Wei*. Identification of herbicide resistance OsACC1 mutations via in planta prime-editing-library screening in rice. Nature Plants. 2021, 7, 888-892.
◾Juan Li#, Rongfang Xu#, Ruiying Qin, Xiaoshuang Liu, Fanna Kong and Pengcheng Wei*. Genome editing mediated by SpCas9 variants with broad non-canonical protospacer-adjacent motif compatibility in plants. Molecular Plant. 2021, 14: 352-360
◾Rongfang Xu, Fanna Kong, Ruiying Qin, Juan Li, Xiaoshuang Liu and Pengcheng Wei*. Development of an efficient plant dual cytosine and adenine editor. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 2021, In Press
◾Yingping Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Kiran Thakur, Fan Zhang, Fei Hu, Jianguo Zhang, Pengcheng Wei* and Zhaojun Wei*. Integration of miRNAs, Degradome, and Transcriptome Omics Uncovers a Complex Regulatory Network and Provides Insights Into Lipid and Fatty Acid Synthesis During Sesame Seed Development. Frontiers in Plant Science. 2021, 12. (*Co-Corresponding author)
◾Ruiying Qin, Juan Li, Xiaoshuang Liu, Rongfang Xu, Jianbo Yang?* and Pengcheng Wei* (2020) SpCas9-NG self-targets the sgRNA sequence in plant genome editing. Nature Plants. 2020, 6: 197–201 (*Co-Corresponding author)
◾Xiaoshuang Liu, Ruiying Qin , Juan Li, Shengxiang Liao, Tiaofeng Shan, Rongfang Xu, Dexiang Wu*, Pengcheng Wei* (2020) A CRISPR-Cas9-mediated domain-specific base-editing screen enables functional assessment of ACCase variants in rice. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 2020,18(9):1845-1847. (*Co-Corresponding author)
◾Rongfang Xu; Juan Li; Xiaoshuang Liu; Tiaofeng Shan; Ruiying Qin; Pengcheng Wei*. (2020) Development of a plant prime editing system for precise editing in the rice genome. Plant Communications. 2020,1(3):1-8.
◾Jin-Jun Yue*, Chwan-Yang Hong*, Pengcheng Wei*, Yu-Chang Tsai*, Choun-Sea Lin (2020) How to start your monocot CRISPR/Cas project: plasmid design, efficiency detection, and offspring analysis. Rice . 13: 9 (Review, co-first author).
◾Juan Li; Ruiying Qin; Yuandi Zhang; Shanbin Xu; Xiaoshuang Liu; Jianbo Yang; Xiuqing Zhang; Pengcheng Wei* (2020) Optimizing plant adenine base editor systems by modifying the transgene selection system. Plant Biotechnology Journal 2020, 18(7): 1495-1497
◾Qin Ruiying, Li Juan, Li Hao, Zhang Yuandi, Liu Xiaoshuang, Miao Yu, Zhang Xiuqing*, Wei Pengcheng* (2019) Developing a highly efficient and wildly adaptive CRISPR-SaCas9 toolset for plant genome editing. Plant Biotechnology Journal 17: 706-708 (*Co-Corresponding author)
◾Xu Rongfang, Qin Ruiying, Li Hao, Li Juan, Yang Jianbo*, Wei Pengcheng* (2019) Enhanced genome editing in rice using single transcript unit CRISPR-LbCpf1 systems. Plant Biotechnology Journal 17: 553-555 (*Co-Corresponding author)
◾Qin Ruiying, Shengxiang Liao, Li Juan, Li Hao, Liu Xiaoshuang, Yang Jianbo*, Wei Pengcheng*(2019) Increasing fidelity and efficiency by modifying cytidine base-editing systems in rice. Crop Journal 26(2) 125-128. (*Co-Corresponding author)
◾Li Hao, Qin Ruiying, Liu Xiaoshuang, Liao Shengxiang, Xu Rongfang, Yang Jianbo*, Wei Pengcheng* (2019) CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Adenine Base Editing in Rice Genome. Rice Science 26: 125-128(*Co-Corresponding author)
◾Hao Li, Juan Li, Rongfang Xu, Ruiying Qin, Fengshun Song, Li Li, Pengcheng Wei* and Jianbo Yang* (2018) Isolation of five rice non-endosperm tissue-expressed promoters and evaluation of their activities in transgenic rice. Plant Biotechnology Journal 16(6): 1138-1147. (*Co-Corresponding author)
◾Juan Li, Ruiying Qin, Rongfang Xu, Hao Li, Yachun Yang, Li Li, Pengcheng Wei* and Jianbo Yang* (2018) Isolation and identification of five cold-inducible promoters from Oryza sativa. Planta. 247 (1): 99–111 (*Co-Corresponding author)
