Xiao Huang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

College of Life Sciences,
 South China Agricultural University,
 Guangzhou, Guangdong 510642, China
 E-mail: xiaohuang@scau.edu.cn
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Education

-        Ph.D. in Biochemistry, The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY, USA, 2009

-        M.S. in Zoology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, 2000

-        B.S. major in Biology, minor in Computer Software, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, 1997

Professional Biography

Xiao Huang stayed as Adjunct Lecturer in Sun Yat-sen University in 2000, and became a Lecturer in 2002. She continued to study and work as Adjunct Lecturer and Research Assistant at CUNY, and received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry in January 2009. After her degree, she worked in University of Wisconsin-Madison and then at Madison Area Technical College as a biology instructor.

Since October 2015, Dr. Huang joined the faculty in College of Life Sciences at South China Agricultural University as an Associate Professor. Her current research interests focus on plant autophagy and vesicle trafficking. She hopes that all of her experience will kind of converge in one place, which is to help people who come into contact with her in some ways.

Recent Publications

1.        Huang X., Zheng C., Liu F., Yang C., Zheng P., Lu X., Tian J., Chung T., Otegui S M., Xiao S., Gao C., Vierstra D R.*, Li F.* (2019) Genetic Analyses of the Arabidopsis ATG1 Kinase Complex Reveal Both Kinase-Dependent and Independent Autophagic Routes during Fixed-Carbon Starvation. Plant Cell 31(12): 2973-2995.

2.        Huang X., Li F. (2016) Roles of Autophagy in Plant Programmed Cell Death. Chinese Bulletin of Botany (Zhi Wu Xue Bao) 51: 859-862.