2000 - 2004  Nankai University, B.S.　　

2004 - 2010  Institute of Biophysics, CAS, Ph.D.

2006 - 2009  Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Predoctoral Researcher

2010 - 2014  Institute of Biophysics, CAS, Associate Professor

2014 - 2017  Institute of Biophysics, CAS, Professor

2012  Membership of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association, CAS

2014  Membership of the Genetics Society of America

2014  Director of Life Society, the Youth Innovation Promotion Association, CAS

1. Besides its critical role in limiting pathogen infection, more evidence has indicated that innate immunity is essentially involved in the regulation of other pathophysiological processes, including aging, metabolism, autoimmunity and tumorigenesis. The innate immune system in Drosophila is finer multi-layered, which serves as an ideal model system to understand innate immunity of mammals, and particularly, human diseases. In an attempt to address this issue, we set up a series of genetic screenings for abnormal innate responses to bacterial and/or viral infection. We aim to determine the regulatory pathway/network of innate immune response to infection and a set of new genes/factors can be identified for better understanding of the innate immunity and potential translation to human medicine.

2. High calorie/fat diet (WTD) leads to weight-gain and diet-induced-obesity (DIO).However, the mechanisms of the interaction between gut microflora and immune response during DIO are still unclear. Here, we will take the advantages of drosophila and immune deficient mice model with WTD/DIO, (1) to study corporately the change pattern and the immunological regulation mechanisms of gut commensal microflora and the fat/energy metabolism; (2) to determine the network regulations among mucosal immunity, gut commensal microflora and obesity; and (3) to reveal the molecular and cellular mechanism for the eco-immunological regulations of gut flora and obesity.

Invited Presentations

2008.03   49^th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, San Diego, California, “Stem cell aging is controlled both intrinsically and extrinsically in the Drosophila ovary.”

2008.05  Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, talk on research day “stem cell aging”

2009.09  Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, “Genetic networks controlling stem cell aging.”

2010.12   Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, “CSN4 competes with BGCN for interacting with BAM to regulate GSCs’ fate.”

2014.12  2014 Young Immune Scholars Annual Meeting, Suzhou, China, “A chromatin remodeling factor contributes to innate immune homeostasis in intestine”

2015.11  2015 Youth Innovation Promotion Association, CAS Annual Meeting, Shanghai, China, “Intestinal innate immune homeostasis”.

2015.11  2015 CSI Congress on Immunology, Beijing, China, “Bap180/Baf180 contributes to intestinal innate immune homeostasis”.

2016.03  Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, “The regulation of intestinal immune homeostasis.”

2016.06  Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Popular science lectures “The genetic study in fly.”

2016.08  The Inaugural Jiujiang International Drosophila Conference, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China “A chromatin remodeling factor has a novel role to contribute to the homeostasis of intestinal innate immune response”.

2016.10  Second Asian Invertebrate Immunology Symposium, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China “Bap180/Baf180 is required to maintain the homeostasis of intestinal innate immune response” Session Chair

2011.01 - 2013.12  National Natural Science Foundation of China for Young Scholars (Grant No. 31000403)

2011.01 - 2013.12  Key Laboratory of Infection and Immunity (CASKLII), Joint research projects

2012.01 - 2015.12  Ministry of Health (MoH) (Grant No. 2012ZX10001006)

2012.01 - 2016.12  973 Projects, Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MoST) (Grant No. 2012CB518900)

2012.01 - 2014.12  Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MoST) (Grant 2011DFG32790)

2012.01 - 2013.12   Novo Nordisk – Chinese Academy of Sciences Research Foundation, Joint research projects (Grant No. NNCAS-2011-2)

2012.01 - 2015.12  Chinese Academy of Sciences Young Investigator Fellowship

2013.01 - 2017.12  Projects of International Cooperation and Exchanges NSFC (Grant No. 81220108018)

2013.01 - 2017.12  973 Projects, Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MoST) (Grant No. 2012CB117289)

2014.01 - 2017.12  National Natural Science Foundation of China (31370909)

2016.01 - 2019.12  National Natural Science Foundation of China (31570897)

2017.01 - 2019.12  Outstanding Chinese Academy of Sciences Young Investigator Fellowship

1. Pan L, Chen S, Weng C, Call G, Zhu D, Tang H, Zhang N, Xie T. Stem Cell Aging Is Controlled Both Intrinsically and Extrinsically in the Drosophila Ovary. Cell stem cell, 2007, 1:458-469 (Faculty 1000 factor=6，cited 103)

2. Xie T, Song X, Jin Z, Pan L, Weng C, Chen S, Zhang N. Interactions between Stem Cells and Their Niche in the Drosophila Ovary. COLD SPRING HARB SYM. 2008, 73:39-47

3. Yu J*, Pan L*, Qin X, Chen H, Xu Y, Chen Y and Tang H. MTMR4 attenuates TGFβ signaling by dephosphorylating R-Smads in endosomes. The Journal of biological chemistry 2010, 285(11):8454-62. (*co-first author)

4. Wang X*, Pan L*, Wang S*, Zhou J, McDowell W, Park J, Haug J, Staehling K, Tang H, Xie T. Histone H3K9 Trimethylase Eggless Controls Germline Stem Cell Maintenance and Differentiation. PLoS genetics 2011, 7(12): e1002426. (*co-first author)

5. Zhang X, Weng C, Li Y, Wang X, Jiang C, Li X, Xu Y, Chen Q, Pan L* and Tang H*. Human Bop is a novel BH3-only member of the Bcl-2 protein family. Protein & Cell 2012, 3 (10): 790–801 (* Correspondence author)

6. Yu J, He X, Chen Y, Hao Y, Yang S, Wang L, Pan L* and Tang H*. Myotubularin-related protein 4 (MTMR4) attenuates BMP/Dpp signaling by dephosphorylation of Smad proteins. The Journal of biological chemistry 2013, 288 (1): 79-88 (* Correspondence author)

7. Yan D, Neumuller RA, Buckner M, Ayers K, Li H, Hu Y, Yang ZD, Pan L, Wang X, Kelley C, Vinayagam A, Binari R, Randklev S, Perkins LA, Xie T, Cooley L, and Perrimon N. A Regulatory Network of Drosophila Germline Stem Cell Self-Renewal. Developmental Cell 2014, 28, 459–473. (Resource article)

8. Chen J, Zhao Y, Zhang C, Chen H, Feng J, Chi X, Pan Y, Du J, Guo M, Cao H, Chen H, Wang Z, Pei R, Wang Q, Pan L, Niu J, Chen X, Tang H. Persistent hepatitis C virus infections and hepatopathological manifestations in immune-competent humanized mice. Cell Research, 2014;doi:10.1038

9. Pan L*, Wang S*, Lu T, Weng C, Song X, Park J, Sun J, Yang Z, Yu J, Tang H, McKearin D, Chamovitz D, Ni J, Xie T. Protein competition switches the function of COP9 from self-renewal to differentiation. NATURE, 2014; doi:10.1038/nature13562

10. He X*, Yu J*, Wang M, Cheng Y, Han Y, Yang S, Sun L, Fang Y, Gong S, Wang Z, Fu Y, Pan L^# and Tang H^#. Bap180/Baf180 is required to maintain homeostasis of intestinal innate immune response in Drosophila and mice. Nat. Microbiol. 2, 17056 (2017). (^# Correspondence author)

(From Lei Pan, April 20, 2017)