Talk title:
Decoding the transcription circuitry when life begins
Prof.Wei Xie
School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University
HHMI International Research Scholar
Speaker introduction:
Dr.Xie received his B.S. degree in Molecular Biology at Peking University in China in 2003. He pursued his Ph.D study at UCLA, where he joined the laboratory of Michael Grunstein to study the function of histones and histone modifications. He also obtained a M.S. double degree in statistics at UCLA with Ker-Chau Li. After completing his graduate studies in 2008, he continued research in epigenetics and transcription regulation as a postdoctoral fellow in Bing Ren’s lab at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, UCSD in 2009. After his postdoc training, he joined Tsinghua University, School of Life Sciences, in Beijing as a Principal Investigator in 2013. He is also a member of the Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences. Using interdisciplinary approaches, Dr. Wei Xie is dedicated to understanding how the epigenome is inherited, reprogrammed, and established in early mammalian development when life just begins. His group established a series of ultra-sensitive technologies to analyze chromatin dynamics using a few hundred cells. He has authored over 80 publications, including those published in Nature, Science, Cell as the first-author/correspondence author. His work has been cited over 18,000 times. He has won numerous awards including Qiushi Excellent Young Scholar Award, Outstanding Young Scholar Award from National Science Foundation of China, C. C. Tan Life Science Innovation Award, Shulan Medical Science Young Scholar Award, China Science and Technology Young Scholar Award, etc.
Date and Time:7 April 2023
14:00-15:30 Academic Consultation
15:30-16:30 2C-Auditorium, East Complex Auditorium
Host: Dr.Di Chen
