Zhigang Xie, PhD
Zhigang Xie, PhD
Associate Professor - Research
Contact
Molecular & Cellular Medicine
Wehner-Welch lab 116 Reynolds Medical Building
College Station,
TX
77843
zxie@tamu.edu
Education and Training
- Nanjing University, BS, Biology, 1993
- Shanghai Institute of Physiology, MS, Neurobiology, 1996
- University of Alabama, PhD, Cell Biology/Neuroscience, 2001
Research Interests
- Xie's research focuses on the mechanisms governing the proliferation, differentiation, and migration of neural stem cells in the developing mammalian brain, and the relevance of these mechanisms to developmental brain disorders (such as autism spectrum disorders) and pediatric brain cancer.
- Current projects include the analysis of how lipid signaling and planar cell polarity pathway regulate neural stem cell proliferation and migration in the embryonic mouse brain, and the investigation of how histone H3 K27M mutation drives de novo gliomagenesis in the pons