Organizing Committee Member
Lihong Xiao
Professor
Zhejiang A&F University
China
Biography
Dr. Lihong Xiao received her master degree in Plant Biology and Molecular Ecology from Inner Mongolia University (IMU), Hohhot, China in 2005, and her PhD degree in Genetics from Capital Normal University (CNU), Beijing, China in 2010. From 2010 to 2014, she started her postdoctoral research at CNU. During the time as a postdoctoral researcher, she spent over two years as a research scholar at Dr. Melvin J. Oliver’s USDA-ARS lab at University of Missouri, USA. She also worked for Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, CAS, China for two years, as a Senior Research Associate in Dr. Jian-Kang Zhu’s lab.
Research Area
Her research interests are also focused on understanding fundamental mechanisms of plant abiotic stress responses to adverse environments and to explore the mechanisms and its evolution of stem cell maintenance by integrating extensive approaches, including “omics†(small RNA and mRNA transcriptome, proteomics and phosphate-protein, methylome) and whole genome sequencing (WGS) as well as data analysis, genetics, cytology (including light, electron and confocal microscopy imaging), histochemistry, molecular biology, etc.