Xiufeng Song, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Laboratory of Stress Signal Transduction and Gene Regulation

Tufts Medical Center

800 Washington Street, Box 8486

Boston, MA 02111

617-636-5208

Xiufeng Song

Xiufeng received her B.S. in Biology from Xinjiang University, China, and her Ph.D. in Human Genetics from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, studying the origin, migration and admixture of Chinese Population and Genetic structure of isolates in the laboratory of Dr. Li Jin. She then completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in at the Dept. of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University studying the in vivo role of Arrestin1 in rod photoreceptors, as well as the characterization of the molecular interactions between arrestin and MAPKs. In January 2010, Dr. Song was appointed as a postdoctoral research fellow in Dr. John Kyriakis’s laboratory at MCRI. Her work will be focused on the investigation of the role of GCK in basic host-defense, atherosclerosis and obesity-induced inflammation. Her research goal is to elucidate the molecular pathways that lead to the activation of Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs), as well as their biological functions.