Fellow
Meng Anming
Lab head
Current nationality
China
Current country of residence
China
Affiliation / Institution
Tsinghua University School of Life Sciences
Biodata
Meng is a professor of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He obtained his bachelor degree in 1983 at Southwestern Agricultural University, China, and PhD in 1991 at Nottingham University, UK. He was director of the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (2008-2012). He is an elected fellow of CAS. He has been working mainly on maternal factors related to regulation of cell lineage, body axis determination, and germ layer formation and patterning using zebrafish and mouse models. His representative work include: 1) revealing the role of Dpr2/Dact2 in mesoderm induction by antagonizing Nodal signaling (Science, 2004); 2) discovery of the maternal factor Huluwa as the key organizer determinant in the zebrafish embryo (Science, 2018); 3) Discovery of the second polar body's role in preimplantation cell fate determination and postimplantation development of the mouse embryo (National Science Reviews, 2022); 4) demonstration of regulation of zygotic genome activation by maturity of nuclear pole complexes in the zebrafish (Cell, 2022).
Sustainable Development Goals
Keywords
Vertebrate embryo; zebrafish; mouse; signaling transduction; signaling; embryonic patterning; cell fate
ELECTED
2008
Country of birth
China
Section
02. Biological Sciences
Country where living and working for the majority of the last 10 years
China
Public contact information
PHONE
+861062772256
ADDRESS
Qinghuayuan,
Last updated on 12/07/2023