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Yiji Xia


Yiji Xia

Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Biography

Professor Yiji Xia is Professor and Head of Department of Biology at Hong Kong Baptist University. He received his PhD degree in Genetics from Iowa State University in 1997 and was a joint postdoctoral associate at Salk Institute/Noble Foundation from 1997 to 1999. After working at Akkadix Corporation (San Diego, USA) as a senior scientist from 2000 to 2001, he joined Danforth Plant Science Center (St. Louis, USA) as Principal Investigator. Since 2009, he has been working at HKBU. Prof. Xia has published over 40 research articles in Nature, EMBO Journal, EMBO Reports, Plant Cell, PNAS, and other journals, with a total citation count of over 4,900. Prof. Xia’s main research focus is on plant stress responses, particularly on redox sensing and epigenetic and transcriptional regulation in response to biotic and abiotic stress.

Abstract

Abstract : Understanding redox sensing and signaling through the identification and functional characterization of redox-sensitive proteins