Joint PIs

1.    2019 – present, Investigator, Fudan University, Shanghai, Shanghai 200438, China.
2.    2014 – 2019, Postdoc Associate/Helen Hay Whitney Fellow, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10065, USA.
3.    2008 – 2014, PhD, Biomedical Sciences/Immunology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA.
4.    2005 – 2008, MS, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.
5.    2001 – 2005, BS, Biological Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, Shanghai 200433, China.

Our laboratory aims to understand how the gut microbiota impacts the physiology of distal organs such as the brain and the adipose tissue, with a primary focus on the signal relays mediated by the immune and endocrine systems.

1.    Wang, Y., Kuang, Z., Yu, X., Ruhn, K. A., Kubo, M., and Hooper, L. V. (2017) The intestinal microbiota regulates body composition through NFIL3 and the circadian clock. Science 357, 912-916. [PMID: 28860383].
2.    Yu, X.* †, Wang, Y.*, Deng, M., Li, Y., Ruhn, K. A., Zhang, C. C., and Hooper, L. V. (2014) The basic leucine zipper transcription factor NFIL3 directs the development of a common innate lymphoid cell precursor. eLife 3, e04406. (co-first author, co-corresponding author) [PMID: 25310240].
3.    Yu, X., Rollins, D., Ruhn, K.A., Stubblefield, J.J., Green, C.B., Kashiwada, M., Rothman, P.B., Takahashi, J.S., and Hooper, L.V. (2013). TH17 Cell Differentiation Is Regulated by the Circadian Clock. Science 342, 727-730. [PMID: 24202171].