题 目：A journey from Cyanobacteria to mitochondria homeostasis and liver diseases
报告人：丁文兴 教授

主持人：毕惠嫦 教授

时 间：2024年6月10日（周一）11:00-12:00

地 点：药学院四楼会议

报告人简介：

Dr.  Wen-Xing Ding graduated from Shanghai Medical University (now Fudan University) in China in 1992 in Preventive Medicine, and then obtained his PhD in Molecular Toxicology in 2001 from National University of Singapore.  Dr. Ding did his Postdoc training at University of Pittsburgh in 2001 and became a research assistant professor at Department of Pathology in 2006 in University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Ding became an assistant professor in 2009 and then professor of Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics in 2017 at The University of Kansas Medical Center. The Ding laboratory has been working on the role of autophagy in alcohol and drug-induced liver injury since 2009. The Ding Lab is particularly interested in how autophagy selectively removes cellular damaged/excess organelles such as mitochondria and lipid droplets in hepatocytes. Dr. Ding has extensive expertise on organelle stress and quality control in cell death and innate immunity in the pathogenesis of alcohol-associated liver disease. His research work is currently supported by NIAAA and NIDDK and NIA. Dr. Ding has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers. His papers have been extensively cited for more than 32000 times and his current H-index is 71. In addition to research, Dr. Ding demonstrated outstanding leadership for service.  He is currently the Chair of Hepatotoxicity SIG of AASLD.  Dr. Ding currently is the Section Editor for Autophagy, and Associate editor for APSB, American Journal of Pathology, and Cell & Biosciences. He is also an editorial board member of Hepatology and Hepatology Communications. Extending his expertise to the next generation of scientists, Dr. Ding is also passionate for mentoring. So far, he has mentored ten graduate students and eight postdoctoral fellows, as well as eight undergraduate summer students, two high school summer students, one medical student, one MD/PhD student and five visiting scholars from outside the United States.

Dr. Ding is a William Warner Abercrombie professor of Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics at KUMC. The Ding laboratory has been working on the role of autophagy in alcohol and drug-induced liver injury since 2009. The Ding Lab is particularly interested in how autophagy selectively removes cellular damaged/excess organelles such as mitochondria and lipid droplets in hepatocytes. Dr. Ding has extensive expertise on organelle stress and quality control in cell death and innate immunity in the pathogenesis of alcohol-associated liver disease.