Xintao Fan, Ph.D.
- Center for Cancer Research
- National Cancer Institute
- Building 560, Room 22-76
- Frederick, MD 21702
- 301-846-1439
- xintao.fan@nih.gov
RESEARCH SUMMARY
Dr. Xintao Fan is studying the germ cell specification in Macrostomum lignano (Mlig), a free-living marine flatworm capable of regenerating its reproductive system following amputation. His research focuses on developing new methodologies for Mlig and determining the molecular mechanism(s) of primordial germ cell formation during the development and regeneration.
Areas of Expertise
1) germ cells 2) development 3) regeneration 4) Macrostomum lignano
Xintao Fan, Ph.D.
Biography
Xintao Fan, Ph.D.
Dr. Xintao Fan completed his B.S. at Zhejiang University, China. He received his Ph.D. from Dartmouth College where he studied the role of mitochondria and ER in partitioning the germplasm in the early C. elegans embryo in the lab of Dr. Erik Griffin. He joined Dr. Erin Davies’s lab in the Cancer and Developmental Biology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute at Frederick in 2021 and focuses on germ cell specification in the marine flatworm Macrostomum lignano.