Guest Seminar - Psychological Stress, Neurons and Inflammation: New Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Prof. Xu joined the CUHK in May 2021 as Assistant Professor at the School of Life Sciences. Before joining CUHK, I got my Ph.D. degree at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and did my postdoctoral training at Columbia University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the US. I have focused my previous research on immunology and hematopoietic stem cells niche, and discovered that: 1) Psychological stress promotes vascular inflammation via gut microbiota (Immunity, 2020); 2) Sensory neurons inhibit inflammation through CGRP (JEM, 2021); 3) Environmental factors in winter induce inflammatory crisis in sickle cell disease (Nature Medicine, 2018); 4) Arterial endothelial cells regulate the maintenance and regeneration of hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow (Nature Communications, 2018). I am currently Associate Editor for Frontiers in Genetics and for Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, and a member of the International Society for Experimental Hematology and of the American Society of Hematology. More information about my research can be found at (hold Ctrl and left-click the link below): http://www.sls.cuhk.edu.hk/index.php/faculty-and-staff/teaching-staff/9… and https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LtBS2X0AAAAJ&hl=en.