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Mar.  2024    Jun Xiao  and Dong-zhi attend the CEPAMS annual meeting held in Sanya Hainan with scientists                             from JIC, IGDB, CEPMS and other university and institues from China. Jun chairs and leads the

                     discussion of 'Crop genome and breeding' session.

Feb.  2024    A collaboration work on TaSnRK1-TabHLH489 regulation of grain length in wheat has been accepted                         in Plant Biotechnol J, congratulations to Dong-zhi and all the coauthors.

Feb.  2024    Wheat spike multi-omic paper has been published in Molecular Plant, congratulations to Xue-lei,                               Yong-xin, Dong-zhi, and all the coauthors.

Jan.  2024    Jun Xiao visits UPenn and talks with Professor Doris Wagner and her lab members for potential                               collaboration projects. 

Jan.  2024     Annual scientific meeting is held and everyone reported their progress and gains in 2023, we                                     have a rewards ceremony afterwards to celebrate wonderful works done by members of Xiao lab. 

Dec.  2023    Congratulations to Xuemei Liu and Dr. Hao Zhang on receiving the "Yi-Hai-Jia-Li Excellent                                  Graduate Student" award, Dr. Jun Xiao for the "Yi-Hai-Jia-Li Excellent Mentor" award.

Nov.  2023    Our paper on "Epigenetic regulation of LN adaptation in wheat cultivars" has been accepted by Nature                        Communications, Congratulations to Dr. Hao Zhang. 

Nov.  2023    Jun Xiao, Xuemei Liu and Xiuxiu Zhang go to Wuhan to attend the 1st National Conference on                           Plant Stem Cell Biology. Jun Xiao gives oral presentation, Xuemei gets Poster Award! 

Nov.  2023    Dr. Jun Xiao has successfully navigated the tenure track, achieving a final evaluation level                                          of "excellent"!

Nov.  2023    Lab photo day for 2023.

Nov.  2023    Jing Zhang & Hao Zhang have passed doctor degree defense. Congratulations, Drs. Zhang X2!

Nov.  2023    Jun Xiao, Xuemei Liu and other 12 graduate students from IGDB go to Davis, US to attend the ISW                          held in UC Davis and give oral presentations, discuss with Professor Jorge Dubcovsky. 

Nov.  2023    Hao Zhang attends the Nitrogen 2023 international conference in Sydney, Australia, and gives oral                          presentation on "Epigenetic regulation of low nitrogen adaptation in wheat cultivars". 

Oct.  2023     Jun Xiao, Hao Wang and Zhaoheng Zhang go to Changsha to attend the 60th anniversary of                                CSSC and visit Hunan University, Jun Xiao is awarded the 2023 "Youth Scholar" of CSSC.

Oct.  2023     Jun Xiao goes to Haikou to attend the 90th anniversary of BSC and 2nd Plant Frontier Scientific                          Meeting and give oral presentation on wheat regeneration.

Oct.  2023     Jun Xiao, Dongzhi Wang, Kehui Zhu and Xuemei Liu go to Norwich, UK to attend ASM and have                        intensive communication with JIC and TSL collaborators. During the stay, they visit U@Cambridge.

Sep.  2023     Jun Xiao and Dongzhi go to Shandong Agricultural University and Institute of Advanced                                      Agricultural Sciences of Peking University for scientific communication.

Sep.  2023     Happy Teachers' Day! 

Sep.  2023     Farewell to Dr. Long Zhao, Dr. Yongxin Xu, wish you all the best in U@TEXAS and Yazhou Bay.

Aug. 2023     Dongzhi, Jinchao, Yuxin and Jun Xiao attend the Wheat Genome and Molecular Breeding                                       conference in Hefei, China. Jinchao delivers oral presentation. Yuxin gets the Poster Award!

Aug. 2023     Jinchao and Xuemei present in the 2023 Summer Seminar of Young scientists at PCCE. Xuemei gets                        the Poster Award!

Aug. 2023    Jun Xiao is awarded the "Distinguished Young Scholars" from Beijing NSF.

Jul. 2023      Welcome to join us, Dr. Yujing Lin,  Zhaoheng Zhang and Bingxin Shi.

Jul. 2023      Xue-mei is invited to give oral presentation at CGM symposium in Wuhan, China.

Jul. 2023      Xue-mei gets the second prize of "DiAo Scholarship" and "Pacemaker of Merit Student".

Jul. 2023      Dong-zhi makes a field trip to Qinghai for wheat germplasm collection and breeding application.

Jul. 2023      Review on epigenetic regulation of nitrogen signaling and low nitrogen adaptation is accepted in                                 Plants,  Congratulations to Hao and Xiaoyu!

Jul. 2023      Jun Xiao is invited to attend SEB 100 Centenary conference and give talk on 4D crops.

Jul. 2023      Farewell to Dr. Ming Deng, wish you all the best in XIANGHU  Lab.

Jun. 2023     Jun Xiao visits John Innes Center for collaboration on wheat functional genomics.

Jun. 2023     Xiao lab jointly hold and attend the 1st plant epigenetics and crop breeding symposium in IGDB.

Jun. 2023     Xuemei Liu, Ke-hui Zhu, Xue-lei Lin and Jun Xiao attend 33rd ICAR hold in Chiba, Japan.

May 2023     Jun Xiao is invited to give talks in South China Agricultural University.

May 2023     Our work on transcriptional regulation of wheat regeneration is published on Nature Plants,                                        Congratulations to Xue-mei and Xue-lei! Thanks to our collaborators in SDAU.

May 2023     Ming Deng & Yongxin Xu have passed doctor degree defense. Congratulations, Dr. Deng & Dr. Xu!

Apr. 2023     Jun Xiao is invited to give talks in Shandong University and Hebei Normal University.

Apr. 2023     Jun Xiao gives oral presentations in wheat-omic youth meeting in Qingdao, and CSPB meeting in 

                      Wuhan, China.

Apr. 2023     Jun Xiao is invited to talk in Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (XAAS), Urumqi, China.

Mar. 2023     Congratulations to Xue-mei on receiving travel award to attend the 33rd ICAR in Japan.

Mar. 2023     Indexed-KN9204 mutant library paper has been published in Plant Communications,                                                  Congratulations to Dong-zhi, Yong-xin, Yi-man!

Feb. 2023      Happy B-day Xue-lei, Xue-mei and Xiao-yu, wish you all a happy, healthy and fruitful 2023!

Feb. 2023      Review on wheat inflorescence development is accepted in Journal of Genetics and Genomics,                                  Congratulations to Xu-mei, Yi-man, Xue-lei!

Feb. 2023      Xue-lei Lin, Hao Zhang, Ke-hui Zhu attend 2022 Winter Seminar of Young scientists at PCCE.

                       Hao and Ke-Hui got Poster Award, Congratulations!

Jan. 2023       Annual scientific meeting is held and everyone reported their progress and gains in 2022, we                                    have a rewards ceremony afterwards to celebrate wonderful works done by members of Xiao lab. 

Jan. 2023      Invited review on epigenetic regulation of plant regeneration was published in aBIOTECH,                                        Congratulations to Xue-mei Liu, Ke-hui Zhu.

Jan. 2023      Our work on epigenetic regulation of wheat embryo development was published in Genome Biology,                           Congratulations to Dr. Long Zhao.

Nov. 2022      Long Zhao has passed his doctor degree defense. Congratulations, Dr. zhao!

Nov. 2022      Welcome to join us Dr. Xiu Xiu Zhang and Farewell Dr. Hong-zhe Wang

Oct.  2022       Invited review on wheat functional genomic to genetic improvement of traits in China was published

                       in Science China Life Science, Congratulations!  

Aug. 2022      Our collaboration work on KN9204 genome assembly, annotation and NUE trait dissection was                                   published in Molecular Plant! Congratulations to Long Zhao, Hao Zhang and Xue-mei Liu. 

Aug. 2022      Welcome to join us, Xu-mei Luo & Yuan Cao

July. 2022      Hao Wang,  Min Deng and Jing Zhang attend 2022 Summer Seminar of Young scientists at PCCE.

                       Min Deng got Poster Award, Congratulations!

Jun. 2022       Harvest season for wheat and our research work. 

Jun. 2022       Farewell Yu-qing, hope you have great success in the new position. 

Apr. 2022       Lab walk in the Olympic forest park, and happy birthday to Hong-zhe and Ke-hui

Mar. 2022      Yu-qing Zhou has passed her master degree defense, congratulations! 

Feb. 2022       Our collaboration work on wheat disease resistance was published in Nature! Congratulations to Min                          Deng and Long Zhao

Jan. 2022       Annual scientific meeting was held and everyone reported their progress and gains in 2021, we                                 have a rewards ceremony afterwards to celebrate wonderful works done by members of Xiao lab. 

Jan. 2022       Congratulations to Min Deng on receiving the "Yi-Hai-Jia-Li Excellent Graduate Student" award!                         Xue-lei Lin on being recognized as "Excellent employee of year 2021-IGDB"

Dec. 2021       Xue-mei Liu and Dong-zhi Wang attend 2021 Winter Seminar of Young scientists at PCCE.

                       Dong zhi got Poster Award, Congratulations!

Nov. 2021       Lab photo Day

Oct. 2021       Autumn sowing season for wheat and hope.

Aug. 2021      Lab trip to suburb of Beijing, we have a nice summer weekend. 

Aug. 2021      Congratulate Dongzhi on receiving the NSFC funding for Young Scientists! 

July. 2021      Yong-xin Xu and Hao Wang won prize at 2021 Summer Seminar of Young scientists at PCCE.                                   Congratulations!  

July. 2021      Jun Xiao, Long Zhao, Jin-chao Chen attend 7th International Symposium on Plant                                                    Reproductive Development (ISPRD), held in SJTU-Shang hai, China. 

Jun. 2021       New co-authored papers are in press in Trends in Plant Science, Trends in Biotechnology,                                        Molecular Plant.  

Jun. 2021       Xiao lab is selected as part of the CEPEI (Centre of Excellence for Plant-Environment Interaction),                             joint center of CBGP (Spain) - PSC - IGDB (China)  

Jun. 2021       Jun Xiao was invited by Annoroad and MGI to give a talk on 'Chromatin dynamics and TRN during                           embryogenesis in hexaploid wheat'  

Jun. 2021       Congratulate Mengxia for the new position as AP in IVF-CAAS

Apr. 2021       Xiao Lab team won  the shuttlecock kicking game!

Feb. 2021       The scientific annual meeting was held in Xiao lab. We enjoyed New Year Party after the meeting.

Dec. 2020       Jin-chao Chen presented at the Winter Seminar of Young scientists.  And Xuelei Lin made a

                       poster  at the seminar.

Dec. 5, 2020   Xiao lab co-organized 'Seminar on Application of Frontier Technologies in Genomics' at IGDB

                        https://tech.163.com/20/1211/11/FTIJ2A4200099A7M.html

Nov. 23, 2020   Congratulate Dongzhi on receiving the Postdoctoral Funding!

Sep. 18, 2020   Congratulate Mengxia on receiving the National Science Fund for Young Scientists of China!

Aug. 30, 2020  Badminton and table tennis challenges were held in Xiao Lab. And we had a leisure time after it.

July. 1, 2020    Welcome Hao Wang and Xuemei Liu to join us!

July. 1, 2020    Welcome Dongzhi Wang to join us!

Jan. 15, 2020   Xiao lab had a homeparty!

Jan. 14, 2020   The scientific annual meeting was held in Xiao lab.

Jan. 3, 2020     ​Jun Xiao made a presentation  "Challenge but chance in facing the gaints" at the New Year Party                         of IGDB.

Dec. 24, 2019   "The Song of Lemon" is the performance of Xiao Lab in the New Year Party. And Yuqing Zhou                          was the hostess of the party.

Nov. 14-17, 2019   Jun Xiao participated in the 9th Whangpoo Laboratory Leadership Academy.

Nov. 13, 2019     Xuelei Lin presented at the Winter Seminar of Young scientists.

Oct. 22, 2019     Welcome graduate student Jinchao Chen and Yuqing Zhou to join us!

Oct. 6-12, 2019  Jun Xiao visited the John Innes Centre. The visit included the work and meetings related to the                           CEPAMS and attendance at the JIC Annual Science Meeting.

Jun. 1, 2018       Xiao lab was initiated!