New Modes of GPCR Signalling

INVITED SPEAKER’S INFO
Prof. Xi He
PhD, Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Children's Hospital Boston
300 Longwood Avenue,Boston, MA, 02115
Phone: 617-919-2257
Fax: 617-730-1953
Email: xi.he@childrens.harvard.edu
Education
1982-1985 Master’sdegree, Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
1985-1986 Research Associate, Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
1986-1992 Graduate Studies with Dr. Michael G. Rosenfeld, HHMI,
School of Medicine, University of California at San Diego ,La Jolla.
1992-1994 Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Luis F. Parada, NCI/NIH ,Frederick.
1994-1996 Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Harold E.Varmus, NCI/NIH ,Bethesda.
Professinal Experience
1997 Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, Children’s Hospital,
Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA)
2002 Associate Professor, Neuroscience, Children’s Hospital,
Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA)
2007 Professor, Neurology/Neuroscience, Children’s Hospital,
Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA)
Selected Publications
1. He X, Treacy M, Simmons D, Ingraham H, Swanson L, Rosenfeld Mg. Expression
of a Large Family of POU-domain Regulatory Genes in Mammalian Brain
Development. Nature 1989; 340:35-42.
2. He X, Saint-Jeannet JP, Woodgett JR, Varmus HE, Dawid IB. Glycogen synthase
kinase-3 and dorsoventral patterning in Xenopus embryos. Nature 1995;
374:617-622.
3. He X, Saint-Jeannet JP, Nathas J, Wang Y, Dawid IB, Varmus HE. A member of
the frizzled protein family mediating axis induction by Wnt-5A. Science 1997;
275:1652-1654.
4. Tamai K, Semenov M, Kato Y, Spokony R, Liu C, Katsuyama Y, Hess F,
Saint-Jeannet J-P, He X. LDL receptor-related proteins in Wnt signal transduction.
Nature 2000; 407: 530-535.
5. Semenov M, Tamai K, Brott B, Kuhl M, Sokol S, He X. Head inducer Dickkopf-1