Areas of Focus
- Stem Cell and Developmental Biology
- Calcium ion signaling in stem cell activity
- Role of stem cells in tissue homeostasis and aging
Work Experience
- Postdoctoral Researcher at UCLA and BUCK Institute
- 2016 - Present: Professor at Tongji University, School of Life Sciences and Technology
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2002 - BSc: Wuhan University, School of Life Sciences
- 2007 - PhD: Beijing Institute of Life Sciences and Peking Union Medical College
- Published nearly ten SCI articles, first author articles cited nearly 600 times
Publications
- Signal integration by Ca(2+) regulates intestinal stem-cell activity, H. Deng, A. A. Gerencser, H. Jasper, 2015
- The Parkinson's disease genes pink1 and parkin promote mitochondrial fission and/or inhibit fusion in Drosophila, H. Deng, M. W. Dodson, H. Huang, M. Guo, 2008
- Sexual Dimorphism: How Female Cells Win the Race, H. Deng, H. Jasper, 2016
- The Flightless I homolog, fli-1, regulates anterior/posterior polarity, asymmetric cell division and ovulation during Caenorhabditis elegans development, H. Deng, D. Xia, B. Fang, H. Zhang, 2007
- Transcription factor NFY globally represses the expression of the C. elegans Hox gene Abdominal-B homolog egl-5, H. Deng, Y. Sun, Y. Zhang, X. Luo, W. Hou, L. Yan, Y. Chen, E. Tian, J. Han, H. Zhang, 2007
- Intestinal IRE1 Is Required for Increased Triglyceride Metabolism and Longer Lifespan under Dietary Restriction, N. M. Luis, L. Wang, M. Ortega, H. Deng, S. D. Katewa, P. W. Li, J.Karpac, H. Jasper, P. Kapahi, 2016