Feng Xu
Molecular and Cell Biology
Molecular and Cell Biology
Singapore
Biography
Dr Dr. Feng Xu has been a principal investigator in the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS, A-STAR) since 2009. He also holds adjunct positions in the National University of Singapore and Duke-NUS. He obtained his Ph.D. from Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2002. Then he was trained as a chromatin biologist in the lab of Dr. Michael Grunstein at University of California, Los Angeles. His current research interest centers on the epigenetic regulation of adipogenesis. This topic includes the study of microRNA, post-translational modifications on histone and non-histone proteins during white and brown fat cell differentiation. His previous and current research have been published in leading scientific journals including Cell, Molecular Cell and Cell Metabolism.
Research Interest
Molecular and Cell Biology
