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 Hongwei XUE, Director
He 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.
Email: hwxue@sibs.ac.cn website: http://www.plantsignal.cn
 Xiaoliu LI, Deputy Director
Email: xlli@sibs.ac.cn
 Bin HAN, Deputy Director
Professor Bin Han was born in 1963, AnHui, China. He obtained his bachelor degree in Biology from Anhui Normal University, in 1985, master degree in Biology from Guangxi Agricultural College, in 1988, and Ph.D degree in Molecular Genetics from the British John Innes Centre, in 1992. Between 1992 and 1998, he joined the University of Cambridge, Plant Science Department, as a post doctor. In 1998, he came back to China and serves as a director of the National Center for Gene Research, CAS. From 2002 on, he also serves as a vice director of Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS. In 2008, he was appointed as the vice director of Beijing Institute of Genomics, CAS. Professor Han is focusing on rice genome sequencing and re-sequencing, comparative genome analysis of rice subspecies, and rice functional genomics. Over the past several years, he and his laboratory have successfully finished sequencing and analysis of Oryza sativa japonica chromosome 4, construction of japonica fine physical maps, and rice chromosome 4 specific DNA chips and its expression profiling which were published on Nature, Genome Research and Plant Cell, respectively. Based on previous research achievements and with the new generation sequencing technology, he and his laboratory begin developing whole genome-wide high-throughput genotype identification platform of rice various subspecies and corresponding systemic comparative transcriptome analysis. Professor Han has won many awards. The most important award up to date was the Second Prize of National Natural Science, in 2007.
Email: bhan@ncgr.ac.cn website: http://www.ncgr.ac.cn
 Yongping HUANG, Deputy Director
Email: yphuang@sibs.ac.cn
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