教育和研究經歷：
2007年6月，西南大學植物保護學院，植物保護學士學位；
2012年12月，西南大學植物保護學院/中國農科院柑桔研究所，植物病理學博士學位；
2010年至2014年，加州大學河濱分校（UCR），博士聯合培養和博士後研究；
2014年至2015年，美國農業部國家種質資源研究實驗室（USDA-ARS-NGRL），博士後研究；
2013年1月至，西南大學/中國農科院柑桔研究所國家柑桔苗木脫毒中心工作。
主持國家自然基金、國家重點研發中歐政府間合作項目課題（柑桔苗木無病毒化研究）、農業部植保專項、重慶市基礎科學與前沿技術研究重點項目、中央高校基本科研業務費重點項目和西南大學科技新星一等資助等項目。
主要開展果樹（柑桔）病毒病和類似病毒病相關研究工作，同時致力於深度測序挖掘新病毒生物信息學分析和植物病毒與寄主互作分子機理的相關研究。以第一作者或通訊作者身份發表SCI論文10餘篇，主要包括PNAS，FrontiersinMicrobiology，PlantDisease，VirusResearch，ArchivesofVirology，EJPP等雜誌。多次受邀擔任國際刊物的審稿人。
代表性SCI期刊論文：
(1)MengjiCao#,PengDu#,Xian-BingWang,Yun-qiYu,Yan-hongQiu,Wan-XiangLi,AmitGal-On,ChangyongZhou,YiLiandShou-WeiDing.VirusinfectiontriggerswidespreadsilencingofhostgenesbyadistinctclassofendogenoussiRNAsinArabidopsis,PNAS,2014,111:14613-14618.(#Co-firstauthor)
(2)QingfaWu,YingWang,MengjiCao,VitantonioPantaleo,JoszefBurgyan,Wan-XiangLiandShou-WeiDing.Homology-independentdiscoveryofreplicatingpathogeniccircularRNAsbydeepsequencingandanewcomputationalalgorithm,PNAS,109,3938-3943,March2012.
2018年：
(3)PingLi,MinLi,SongZhang,FangyunYang,MengjiCao*,ZhonganLi.CompletegenomesequencesoffourisolatesofCitrusleafblotchvirusfromcitrusinChina.JournalofIntegrativeAgriculture.2018.(*Co-correspondingauthor)
(4)SongZhang,PanShen,MinLi,XinTian,ChangyongZhou*,MengjiCao*.Discoveryofanovelgeminivirusassociatedwithcamelliachloroticdwarfdisease.ArchivesofVirology.2018.(*Co-correspondingauthor)
2017年：
(5)PanShen,XinTian,SongZhang,FangRen,PingLi,Yun-qiYu,RuhuiLi,ChangyongZhou,*andMengjiCao*.Molecularcharacterizationofanovelluteovirusinfectingapplebynext-generationsequencing.ArchivesofVirology.2017.(*Co-correspondingauthor)
(6)MinXin,MengjiCao*,WenwenLiu,YingdangRen,XuepingZhouandXifengWang*.Twonegative-strandRNAvirusesidentifiedinwatermelonrepresentanovelcladeintheorderBunyavirales.FrontiersinMicrobiology,2017,8:1514.doi:10.3389/fmicb.2017.01514.(*Co-correspondingauthor)
(7)MengjiCao,PingxiuLan,FanLi,JorgeAbad,ChangyongZhouandRuhuiLi.Genomecharacterizationofsweetpotatosymptomlessvirus1:amastreviruswithanunusualnonanucleotidesequence.ArchivesofVirology.2017.
(8)XinTian,YanTian,Yun-qiYu,XuefengWang,ZhonganLi,RuhuiLi,MengjiCao*andChangyongZhou*.Periwinkle:ANewNaturalHostofLettuceChlorosisVirusinChina.PlantDisease.2017.(*Co-correspondingauthor)
(9)MengjiCao,QiongWu,FangyunYang,XuefengWang,RuhuiLi,ChangyongZhouandZhonganLi.MolecularcharacterizationandphylogeneticanalysisofCitrusviroidVIvariantsfromcitrusinChina.EuropeanJournalofPlantPathology.2017.
(10)MengjiCao,YunqiYu,XinTian,HongmingChen,FangyunYangandChangyongZhou.FirstReportofCitrusleafblotchvirusonCitrusinChina.PlantDisease.2017.
(11)YunqiYu,QiongWu,HuananSu,MengjiCao*andChangyongZhou*.SmallRNAdeepsequencingrevealsfull-lengthgenomeofCitrusyellowveinclearingvirusinChongqing,China.JournalofIntegrativeAgriculture.2017,16:503-508.(*Co-correspondingauthor)
(12)MinXin,MengjiCao,WenwenLiu,YingdangRen,ChuantaoLuandXifengWang.ThegenomicandbiologicalcharacterizationofCitrulluslanatuscrypticvirusinfectingwatermeloninChina.VirusResearch.2017,232:106-112.
(13)MinXin,PeipeiZhang,WenwenLiu,YingdangRen,MengjiCaoandXifengWang.ThecompletenucleotidesequenceandgenomeorganizationofanovelbetaflexivirusinfectingCitrulluslanatus.ArchivesofVirology.2017.
(14)PeipeiZhang,YanLiu,WenwenLiu,MengjiCao,SebastienMassartandXifengWang1.Identification,CharacterizationandFull-LengthSequenceAnalysisofaNovelPolerovirusAssociatedwithWheatLeafYellowingDisease.FrontiersinMicrobiology,2017.
(15)YanZhou,HongmingChen,MengjiCao,XuefengWang,XinJin,KehongLiuandChangyongZhou.Occurrence,distributionandmolecularcharacterizationofCitrusyellowveinclearingvirusinChina.PlantDisease.2017,101:137-143.
2017年以前：
(16)MengjiCao,Q.Wu,SAtta,HNSu,YQYu,HMChen,CYZhou.FirstmolecularevidenceofCitrusyellowveinclearingvirusfromCitrusinPunjab,Pakistan.PlantDisease.2016.
(17)AijunHuang,ZhenSong,MengjiCao,HongmingChen,ZhonganLiandChangyongZhou.ThecompletegenomesequenceofCitrusveinenationvirusfromChina.JournalofIntegrativeAgriculture.14,598-601,March,2015.
(18)QiongWu#,MengjiCao#,HunanSu,SagheerAtta,FangyunYang,XuefengWangandChangyongZhou.MolecularcharacterizationandphylogeneticanalysisofCitrusviroidI-LSSvariantsfromcitrusinPakistanandChinarevealstheirpossiblegeographicorigin,EuropeanJournalofPlantPathology,2014.(#Co-firstauthor)
(19)MengjiCao,HuananSu,SagheerAtta,XuefengWang,QiongWu,ZhonganLiandChangyongZhou.MolecularcharacterizationandPhylogeneticanalysisofCitrusviroidV(CVd-V)isolatesfromcitrusinPakistan,EuropeanJournalofPlantPathology,135,11-21,January2013.
(20)SagheerAtta,ChangyongZhou,YanZhouandMengjiCao.DistributionandresearchadvancesofCitrustristezavirus,JournalofIntegrativeAgriculture,11,346-358,March2012.
(21)MengjiCao,YongqingLiu,XuefengWang,FangyunYangandChangyongZhou.FirstreportofCitrusbarkcrackingviroidandCitrusviroidVinfectingcitrusinChina,PlantDisease,94,922,July2010.
(22)XuefengWang,YanZhou,ZhonganLi,KezhiTang,YongqingLiu,MengjiCaoandChangyongZhou.Molecular,biologicalandphylogeneticanalysisofchineseisolatesofHopstuntviroidassociatedwithcitruscachexiadisease.JournalofPhytopathology,158,372-377,May2010.
