Jing-Xia Liu Lab

We are interested in the interactive regulation networks between environmental factors including drugs, metal ions and their nanoparticles (outside of cells) and genes (in cells ) in regulating development and regeneration of hematopoietic system (hematopoietic cells/ hematopoietic stem cells) and locomotor behavior systems by approaches of chemical screens, genetic screens, and biochemical analysis in zebrafish and in human cell lines. Another aim of our lab is to reveal the cooperativity of the genetic and epigenetic regulators in all steps of adaptive evolution to environmental factors during fish development by applying comparative genomics between short-time transcriptome responses and long-time regulatory adaptations.