曹孟籍，男，1985年生，博士，副研究员，硕士生导师，现任国际柑桔病毒学家组织（IOCV）秘书长。2007年和2012年毕业于西南大学植物保护学院分别获得植物保护学士学位和植物病理学博士学位。2010年至2014年在加州大学河滨分校（UCR）先后开展博士联合培养和博士后研究，2014年至2015年在美国农业部国家种质资源研究实验室（USDA-ARS-NGRL）进行访问学者研究工作。2013年1月进入西南大学/中国农科院柑桔研究所国家柑桔苗木脱毒中心工作，主要从事柑桔（果树）病毒病和类似病毒病相关研究工作，同时致力于深度测序挖掘新病毒生物信息学分析和植物病毒与寄主互作分子机理的相关研究。
目前，主持国家自然基金、农业部植保专项、重庆市基础科学与前沿技术研究重点项目、中央高校基本科研业务费重点项目和西南大学科技新星一等资助等项目。以第一作者或通讯作者身份发表SCI论文10余篇，主要包括PNAS，Frontiers in Microbiology, Plant Disease，Virus Research，Archives of Virology，EJPP等杂志。多次受邀担任国际著名刊物的审稿人。其中包括《Scientific Reports》，《Virus Genes》，《EJPP》等杂志。
目前合作指导硕士生5名，博士生2名。
招生方向: 分子植物病理学（090401）和生物安全（0904Z1）
代表性SCI期刊论文
(1) Mengji Cao#, Peng Du#, Xian-Bing Wang, Yun-qi Yu, Yan-hong Qiu, Wan-Xiang Li, Amit Gal-On, Changyong Zhou, Yi Li and Shou-Wei Ding. Virus infection triggers widespread silencing of host genes by a distinct class of endogenous siRNAs in Arabidopsis, PNAS, 2014, 111: 14613-14618. (#Co-first author)
(2) Qingfa Wu, Ying Wang, Mengji Cao, Vitantonio Pantaleo, Joszef Burgyan, Wan-Xiang Li and Shou-Wei Ding. Homology-independent discovery of replicating pathogenic circular RNAs by deep sequencing and a new computational algorithm, PNAS, 109, 3938-3943, March 2012.
(3) Min Xin, Mengji Cao*, Wenwen Liu, Yingdang Ren, Xueping Zhou and Xifeng Wang*. Two negative-strand RNA viruses identified in watermelon represent a novel clade in the order Bunyavirales. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017, 8:1514. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01514. (*Co-corresponding author)
(4) Mengji Cao, Pingxiu Lan, Fan Li, Jorge Abad, Changyong Zhou and Ruhui Li. Genome characterization of sweet potato symptomless virus 1: a mastrevirus with an unusual nonanucleotide sequence. Archives of Virology. 2017.
(5) Xin Tian, Yan Tian, Yun-qi Yu, Xuefeng Wang, Zhongan Li, Ruhui Li, Mengji Cao* and Changyong Zhou*. Periwinkle: A New Natural Host of Lettuce Chlorosis Virus in China. Plant Disease. 2017. (*Co-corresponding author)
(6) Mengji Cao, Qiong Wu, Fangyun Yang, Xuefeng Wang, Ruhui Li, Changyong Zhou and Zhongan Li. Molecular characterization and phylogenetic analysis of Citrus viroid VI variants from citrus in China. European Journal of Plant Pathology. 2017.
(7) Mengji Cao, Yunqi Yu, Xin Tian, Hongming Chen, Fangyun Yang and Changyong Zhou. First Report of Citrus leaf blotch virus on Citrus in China. Plant Disease. 2017.
(8) Yunqi Yu, Qiong Wu, Huanan Su, Mengji Cao* and Changyong Zhou*. Small RNA deep sequencing reveals full-length genome of Citrus yellow vein clearing virus in Chongqing, China. Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 2017, 16: 503-508. (*Co-corresponding author)
(9) Min Xin, Mengji Cao, Wenwen Liu, Yingdang Ren, Chuantao Lu and Xifeng Wang. The genomic and biological characterization of Citrullus lanatus cryptic virus infecting watermelon in China. Virus Research. 2017, 232: 106-112.
(10) Min Xin, Peipei Zhang, Wenwen Liu, Yingdang Ren, Mengji Cao and Xifeng Wang. The complete nucleotide sequence and genome organization of a novel betaflexivirus infecting Citrullus lanatus. Archives of Virology. 2017.
(11) Peipei Zhang, Yan Liu, Wenwen Liu, Mengji Cao, Sebastien Massart and Xifeng Wang1. Identification, Characterization and Full-Length Sequence Analysis of a Novel Polerovirus Associated with Wheat Leaf Yellowing Disease. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017.
(12) Yan Zhou, Hongming Chen, Mengji Cao, Xuefeng Wang, Xin Jin, Kehong Liu and Changyong Zhou. Occurrence, distribution and molecular characterization of Citrus yellow vein clearing virus in China. Plant Disease. 2017, 101: 137-143.
(13) Mengji Cao, Q. Wu, S Atta, HN Su, YQ Yu, HM Chen, CY Zhou. First molecular evidence of Citrus yellow vein clearing virus from Citrus in Punjab, Pakistan. Plant Disease. 2016.
(14) Aijun Huang, Zhen Song, Mengji Cao, Hongming Chen, Zhongan Li and Changyong Zhou. The complete genome sequence of Citrus vein enation virus from China. Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 14, 598-601, March, 2015.
(15) Qiong Wu#, Mengji Cao#, Hunan Su, Sagheer Atta, Fangyun Yang, Xuefeng Wang and Changyong Zhou. Molecular characterization and phylogenetic analysis of Citrus viroid I-LSS variants from citrus in Pakistan and China reveals their possible geographic origin, European Journal of Plant Pathology, 2014. (#Co-first author)
(16) Mengji Cao, Huanan Su, Sagheer Atta, Xuefeng Wang, Qiong Wu, Zhongan Li and Changyong Zhou. Molecular characterization and Phylogenetic analysis of Citrus viroid V (CVd-V) isolates from citrus in Pakistan, European Journal of Plant Pathology, 135, 11-21, January 2013.
(17) Sagheer Atta, Changyong Zhou, Yan Zhou and Mengji Cao. Distribution and research advances of Citrus tristeza virus, Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 11, 346-358, March 2012.
(18) Mengji Cao, Yongqing Liu, Xuefeng Wang, Fangyun Yang and Changyong Zhou. First report of Citrus bark cracking viroid and Citrus viroid V infecting citrus in China, Plant Disease, 94, 922, July 2010.
(19) Xuefeng Wang, Yan Zhou, Zhongan Li, Kezhi Tang, Yongqing Liu, Mengji Cao and Changyong Zhou. Molecular, biological and phylogenetic analysis of chinese isolates of Hop stunt viroid associated with citrus cachexia disease. Journal of Phytopathology, 158, 372-377, May 2010.
主要职务：国际柑桔病毒学家组织（IOCV）秘书长
主研方向：分子植物病理学、分子植物病毒学、生物安全
联系邮箱: caomengji@cric.cn
联系电话: 023-68349002
联系地址: 重庆市北碚区歇马镇柑桔研究所, 邮编: 400712
