Organizing Committee Member
Wu Xiushan
Director and Professor
The Center for Heart Development, Hunan Normal University
China
Biography
Xiushan Wu completed his PhD from Stockholm University in 1986-1990, postdoctoral studies from Michegan University and etc in 1990-1994 and Scientist in Karolinska Institute in 1994-2000. He is the Director and Professor of The Center for Heart Development, Hunan Normal University. His research focuses on understanding the mechanisms by which embryonic heart is developed using Drosophila, zebrafish and mice as models. He has published more than 350 papers including over 110 SCI papers.
Research Area
In Development, Circ: Cardiovasc Genet, Blood, Leukemia, Cancer Res, Dev Biol, Nucleic Acids Res, J Biol Chem, Endocrinology, Curr Mol Med More than 100 articles were published in international magazines such as Trends Cardiovasc Med, Oncogene, Mutat Res, and Genomics, and were cited more than 1,000 times. He has published 8 monographs in China and published more than 180 Chinese articles. Representative works and chapters: 1. Wu Xiushan: Development of vertebrate heart (Chapter XVI), P205-218, in: Zhang Hongwei, Development Biology (3rd Edition), Higher Education Press, Beijing (2013) 2. Wu X: Regulation Of Wg/Wnt signaling pathways in heart development, chapter 4, 41-79, In ​​Shaping the Heart in Development and Disease (Eds. Mikhailov A & Torrado M), Kerala: Transworld Research Network (2010). 3. Wu Xiushan (ed. ): Modern Developmental Biology Laboratory Guide, Chemical Industry Press, Beijing (2007) 4. Wu Xiushan (Editor-in-Chief): Signal conditioning and cardiac development, Chemical Industry Press, Beijing (2006) 5. Wu Xiushan (ed.): Heart Outline of Development, Science Press, Beijing (2005) 6. Wu Xiushan (Editor-in-Chief): Heart Development Research, Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha (2004)