1994 – 2000 华中农业大学生物技术六年制本硕连读专业。
2000 – 2004 获上海交通大学生物化学与分子生物学博士学位。

2001 – 2002 作为访问博士生赴韩国高等科技学院合作研究。 2005 – 2007 赴美国麻省理工学院进行博士后研究。 2007 – 2011 在美国哈佛大学进行研究工作。 2011 - 至今 武汉大学药学院教授。

以通讯或共通讯作者在PNAS (2018, 2017, 2011), Nature Communications (2019, 2014), Angew Chem Int Ed, Nucleic Acids Research, Autophage, FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Trends in Cell Biology, Biotechnology Advances，Medicinal Research Reviews, Theranostics, mBio, Molecular Microbiology, Protein and Cell, Biotechnology Journal, Current Genetics等发表论文。1. Chen C, Wang L, Chen S, Wu X, Gu M, Chen X, Jiang S, Wang Y, Deng Z, Dedon P, Chen S*. Convergence of DNA methylation and phosphorothioation epigenetics in bacterial genomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2017, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1702450114.

2. Tong T#, Chen S#, Wang L#, Tang Y#, Ryu JY, Jiang S, Wu X, Chao Chen C, Luo J, Deng Z, Li Z, Lee SY*, Shi Chen*. Occurrence, evolution, and functions of DNA phosphorothioate epigenetics in bacteria, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2018, doi:10.1073/pnas.1721916115.

3. Lei Xiong#, Siyi Liu#, Si Chen#, Yao Xiao#, Bochen Zhu, Yali Gao, Yujing Zhang, Beibei Chen, Jie Luo, Zixin Deng, Xiangdong Chen, Lianrong Wang, Shi Chen*. A new type of DNA phosphorothioation-based antiviral system in archaea. Nature Communications, 2019, Apr 11;10(1):1688. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-09390-9.

4. Cao B. #, Chen C. #, DeMott M.S. #, Cheng Q., Clark T.A., Xiong X., Zheng X., Butty V., Levine S.S., Yuan G., Boitano M., Luong K., Song Y., Zhou X., Deng Z., Turner S.W., Korlach J., You D.*, Wang L.*, Chen S.*, Dedon P.C. Genomic mapping of phosphorothioates reveals partial modification of short consensus sequences. Nature Communications, 2014, 5, doi:10.1038/ncomms4951.

5. Wang L, Chen S*, Vergin KL, Giovannoni SJ, Chan SW, Demott MS, Taghizadeh K, Cordero OX, Cutler M, Timberlake S, Alm EJ, Polz MF, Pinhassi J, Deng Z, Dedon PC*. DNA phosphorothioation is widespread and quantized in bacterial genomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2011, 108 (7): 2963-2968.

6. Wang L, Jiang S, Chen C, He W, Wu X, Wang F, Tong T, Zou X, Li Z, Luo J, Deng Z, Chen S*. Synthetic genomes: from DNA synthesis to genome design. Angew Chemie Int Ed., 2018, 57: 2~11.

7. Wang L, Jiang S, Deng Z, Dedon P, Chen S*. DNA phosphorothioate modification – a new multi- functional epigenetic system in bacteria. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2019, 43(2), 109–122. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuy036

8. Chen Y., Deng Z, Jiang S., Hu Q., Liu H., Zhou S., Ma W., Chen S.*, Zhao Y*. Human cells lacking coilin and Cajal bodies areproficient in telomerase assembly, trafficking and telomere maintenance. Nucleic Acids Research, 2014, 1-11, doi: 10.1093/nar/gku1277.

9. Deng Z, Lim J, Wang Q, Purtell K, Wu S, Palomo GM, Tan H, Manfredi G, Zhao Y, Peng J, Hu B, Chen S*, Yue Z*. ALS-FTLD-linked mutations of SQSTM1/p62 disrupt selective autophagy and NFE2L2/NRF2 anti-oxidative stress pathway. Autophagy, 2019 Jul 30:1-15. doi: 10.1080/15548627.2019.1644076.

10. Zou X#, Wang L#, Li Z, Luo J, Wang Y, Deng Z, Du S, Chen S*. Genome engineering and modification toward synthetic biology for the production of antibiotics. Medicinal Research Reviews, 2018, 38(1): 229~260.