The Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology in Shangai
Hongwei Xue, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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04 Oct, 2012
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03:00 pm to 04:00 pm |
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Title: The Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology in Shangai
Speaker: Hongwei Xue, Director
Affiliation: Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hongwei XUE gained his Bachelor and Doctorial degrees in 1991 and 1996, from the East-China Normal University and Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology, Chinese Academy of Science, respectively. Xue then went to the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany, to undertake postdoctoral research (1996-1998).
Currently, he is the principal investigator and serves as the director of the Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is director of the National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics.
The main interests of Xue's group include: (1) the functional mechanisms of plant hormones, with emphasis on the effects and related signal transduction pathways of auxin and brassinosteroids on development of plant cell and organs; and (2) regulatory network of seed development, focusing on the functions of miRNA, transcription factor, protein kinase and signalling cross-talk in starch metabolism and endosperm development. Xue's group has successfully identified the plant steroid binding proteins and its role in cell elongation and hormone effects; functionally characterized the effects of the plant second messager system (phosphatidylinositol signalling pathway) in hormone effects and in plant development through interacting with hormones; and functionally analysed the roles of rice miRNAs, transcription factors and receptor-like kinase in seed development on the genome level.
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