Tao Xu

Biography

Tao Xu received his BS (Engineering) from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and his Ph.D. in Biophysics at the Institute of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. From 1996 to 1999 he undertook postdoctoral work with Erwin Neher in the Department of Membrane Biophysics at the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, and then spent 2 years with Bertil Hille at the Department of Physiological and Biophysics at the University of Washington in Seattle. In 2000 he returned to the Institute of Biophysics and Biochemistry at Huazhong University as a Professor. In 2003 he moved to the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing, and was appointed as the Director there in 2007. His research interests focus on identifying molecular mechanisms of membrane trafficking and developing super-resolution imaging techniques for biological research

Research Interest

Trafficking, exocytosis, endocytosis, pancreatic beta cell, imaging techniques, Cell Biology