Xiaolan Rao Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Room #A126-B

Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203

940-369-7235

Xiaolan.Rao@unt.edu

Xiaolan Rao

Education: 

Ph.D. Developmental Biology, Wuhan University -- 2004-2011
B.S. Biotechnology, Wuhan University -- 2000-2004

Research: 

Jun/2013 - Present Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Identifying mesophyll and bundle sheath-specific gene promoters from switchgrass
2012 - May/2013 Postdoctoral Fellow, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
2011-2012 Bioinformatician, BGI, Shenzhen

Publications: 

  1. Xiao-Lan Rao, Xiu-Hong Zhang, Rong-Jun Li and Ying-Tang Lu*. (2011). A calcium sensor-interacting protein kinase negatively regulates salt stress tolerance in rice (Oryza sativa L.) Functional Plant Biology.
  2. Xiu-Hong Zhang, Xiao-Lan Rao, Hai-Tao Shi, Rong-Jun Li and Ying-Tang Lu*. (2011). Expression analysis of the cytosolic Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene family in rice under environmental stresses. Plant Cell, Tissue & Organ Culture.