赵婉，博士，副研究员，硕士生导师。2013年7月在中国科学院微生物研究所获得生物化学与分子生物学博士学位；2013年7月至2016年1月在中国科学院动物研究所生态基因组学及适应性研究组从事博士后工作；2016年1月至2021年7月，在动物所媒介昆虫与病毒基因组学研究组任助理研究员；2021年8月至今，任副研究员，主要从事虫媒植物病毒跨界传播的机制研究。

　　主要研究虫媒病毒在媒介昆虫和宿主中的差异调控机制，包括病毒基因组的跨界变异、病毒小RNA的跨界传播机制等。

中国科学院青年创新促进会优秀会员（2023）

中国科学院特聘骨干（2022）

中国科学院“生物互作卓越中心”青年人才（2020）；

中国科学院青年创新促进会会员（2019）；

中国昆虫学会第十一届理事会媒介昆虫与病原互作专委会委员（2021-今）

1. 2023年至2026年，国家自然科学基金面上项目（32272532），主持，在研；
2. 2022年至2025年，国家重点研发计划青年科学家项目（2022YFD1401700），主持，在研；
3. 2021年至2025年，基金委重大项目（32090012），骨干，在研；
4. 2017年至2020年，国家科技重大专项“十三五”课题 (2017ZX10303404002003)，子课题主持，已结题;
5. 2017年至2020年，国家重点研发专项 (2017YFD0200400)，子课题主持，已结题;
6. 2013年至2015年，56 批博士后基金 (2014M561056)，主持，已结题

1. Yu JT#, Zhao W#, Chen XF, Lu H, Xiao Y, Li Q, Luo L, Kang L*, Cui F*. A plant virus manipulates the long-winged morph of insect vectors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 121(3):e2315341121.
2. Cheng XH#, Zhao W#*, Liang GH#, Lu H, Fu YM, Li YM, Cui F*. 2024. Construction of cytomegalovirus promoter-driven gene expression system in Laodelphax striatellus. Insect Science. 31: 720-732.
3. Zhao W#, Wang W#, Xiao Y, Cui F*. 2023. c-Jun regulates flotillin 2 transcription to benefit viral accumulation in insect vectors. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 152:103894.
4. Zhao W#, Zhu JJ#, Lu H, Zhu JM, Jiang F, Wang W, Luo L, Kang L, Cui F*. 2022. The nucleocapsid protein of rice stripe virus in cell nuclei of vector insect regulates viral replication. Protein Cell. 13: 360-378.
5. Zhao W, Li Q, Sun MQ, Xiao Y, Cui F. Interaction between endogenous microRNAs and virus-derived small RNAs controls viral replication in insect vectors. PLoS Pathogens. 18: e1010709.
6. Zhao W, Yu J, Jiang F, Wang W, Kang L, Cui F*. 2021. Coordination between terminal variation of the viral genome and insect microRNAs regulates rice stripe virus replication in insect vectors. PLoS Pathogens. 17: e1009424.
7. Ma YH#, Lu H#, Wang W, Zhu, JM, Zhao W, Cui F*. 2021. Membrane association of importin α facilitates viral entry into salivary gland cells of vector insects. PNAS. 118(30): e2103393118.
8. Li J#, Zhao W#, Wang W, Zhang L, Cui F*. 2019. Evaluation of Rice stripe virus transmission efficiency by quantification of viral load in the saliva of insect vector. Pest Management Science. 75(7): 1979-1985.
9. Zhao W#, Wang Q#, Xu Z, Liu R, Cui F*. 2019. Immune responses induced by different genotypes of the disease-specific protein of Rice stripe virus in the vector insect. Virology. 527: 122-131.
10. Zhao W#, Wang Q#, Xu Z, Liu R, Cui F*. 2019. Distinct replication and gene expression strategies of the Rice stripe virus in vector insects and host plants. Journal of General Virology. 100(5): 877-888.
11. Zhao W#, Li Q#, Cui F *. 2019. Potential functional pathways of plant RNA virus-derived small RNAs in a vector insect. Methods. doi.org/10.1016/j.ymeth.2019.10.006.
12. Zhao W#, Xu Z#, Zhang X, Yang M, Kang L*, Liu R*, Cui F*. 2018. Genomic variations in the 3’ -termini of Rice stripe virus in the rotation between vector insect and host plant. New Phytologist. 219:1085-1096.
13. Yang M#, Xu Z#, Zhao W#, Liu Q, Lu L, Liu R*, Zhang X*, Cui F*. 2018. Rice stripe virus-derived siRNAs play different regulatory roles in rice and in the insect vector Laodelphax striatellus. BMC Plant Biology. 18:219.
14. Wang W#, Zhao W#, Li J#, Luo L, Kang L*, Cui F*. 2017. The c-Jun N-terminal kinase pathway of a vector insect is activated by virus capsid protein and promotes viral replication. eLife. 6: e26591.
15. Zhao W, Kang L, Cui F*, 2017. Isolation of Rice stripe virus preparation from viruliferous small brown planthoppers and mechanic inoculation on rice. Bio-Protocol. 7(21). doi:10.21769/BioProtoc.2597.
16. 赵婉， 王少丽，朱家明，张友军，康乐，崔峰*. 2017. 媒介昆虫与植物病毒互作研究进展. 应用昆虫学报. 54(3): 372-379.
17. Zhao W#, Yang P#, Kang L*, Cui F*. 2016. Different pathogenicities of Rice stripe virus from the insect vector and from viruliferous plants. New Phytologist. 210: 196-207.
18. Zhao W, Lu L, Yang P, Cui N, Kang L*, Cui F*. 2016. Organ-specific transcriptome response of the small brown planthopper toward rice stripe virus. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 70: 60-72.
19. Cui F#, Zhao W#, Luo L, Kang L*. 2016. Rice responses and resistance to planthopper-borned viruses at transcriptomic and proteomic levels. Current Issues in Molecular Biology. 19: 43-52.