Xu Liu: Plant Physiology First Author

Xu Liu, first author of “Stress response proteins NRP1 and NRP2 are pro-survival factors that inhibit cell death during ER stress”

Current Position: Associate research fellow (South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Education: PhD at South China Normal University in 2012

Non-scientific Interests: reading

Brief bio:

My project focuses on the discovery and utilization of genes for important agronomic traits in sweet potato, as well as the molecular regulator mechanism of plant growth, development and environmental adaptability, involving in many research fields such as biochemistry and molecular biology, genetics, plant physiology, cell biology, and so on. The relative researches have been funded by NSFC and Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, and the research papers have been published in the international journals such as Nat Commun, Plant Cell, Mol Plant, Front Plant Sci, Plant Physiol.

姓名：刘旭，

目前职位：副研究员、硕士研究生导师（中国科学院华南植物园）

教育经历：2012年获华南师范大学博士学位

兴趣：阅读

简介：本人主要研究甘薯重要农艺性状基因的发掘与利用，以及植物生长发育和环境适应性的分子调控机制，研究内容涉及生物化学与分子生物学、遗传学、植物生理学、细胞生物学等学科。本人的研究工作获得国家自然科学基金面上、广东省联合基金等多个项目资助，并且相关成果在许多国际期刊，如 Nat Commun, Plant Cell, Mol Plant, Front Plant Sci, Plant Physio等发表。