Li He, Ph.D.  Professor

School of Life Science, The University of Science and Technology of China

Email: lihe19@ustc.edu.cn

Education                                                                        

Ph.D. (08/2006-04/2012)  Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

M.S. (08/2003-07/2006)   Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, China.

B.A. (08/1999-07/2003)   Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, China

Professional Experience

Professor (08/2019-)   School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (05/2012-08/2019)   Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Reviewing

Ad hoc reviewer for: eLife, Plos Genetics, PNAS, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Development Growth and Differentiation, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, PLOS ONE, Human Genetics, Mechanisms of Developmen.

Selected Publication

 1.  He, L.*, Huang, J., Binari, R., Falo, J., and Perrimon, N. Enhanced dual-color fluorescent transcriptional reporters for in vivo study of signaling dynamics. Elife, 2019 (*1st and corresponding author)

2.  He, L.*, Si, G., Huang, J., Samuel, A., and Perrimon, N. (2018) Mechanical regulation of stem-cell differentiation by the stretch-activated Piezo channel. Nature 555, 103-106. (*1st and corresponding author)

3.  He, L., Huang, J., and Perrimon, N. (2017) Development of an optimized synthetic Notch receptor as an in vivo cell-cell contact sensor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, 5467-5472.

4.  He, L.*, Wang, X.*, Tang, H. L., and Montell, D. (2010) Tissue elongation requires oscillating contractions of a basal actomyosin network. Nature Cell Biology 12, 1133-1142. (*equal contribution, Cover Story)

5.  Wang, X.*, He, L.*, Wu, Y. I., Hahn, K. M., and Montell, D. (2010) Light-mediated activation reveals a key role for Rac in collective guidance of cell movement in vivo. Nature Cell Biology 12, 591-597. (*equal contribution)