title:Asymmetric cell division of neural stem cells during brain development speaker:Yunli Xie, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) Austrian Academy of Science time:10:00-11:00 am ,29th October, 2013 place:Room B502, research building, school of medicine contact:Professor Binggui Sun(88981753) Education and Trainings June 2008 – present: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), Austrian Academy of Science Oct.2004 - May 2008: Ph.D. , Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen/Germany and at the Center for Brain Research, Vienna/Austria. Sept. 2000 - Jul. 2003: M.Sc. in molecular virology at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan, China Sept. 1996- Jul. 2000: B.Sc. in Biology at the Department of Biology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China Selected Publications 1. Xie Y, Lancaster MA, Knoblich JA (2013) Mechanisms of spindle orientation during asymmetric cell division. Cell (invited review, in submission) 2. Xie Y, Juschke C, Esk C,et al (2013) The phosphatase PP4c controls spindle orientation to maintain proliferative symmetric divisions in the developing neocortex. Neuron 79:254-265 3. Sparmann A, Xie Y, Verhoeven E, et al (2013) The chromodomain helicase Chd4 is required for Polycomb-mediated inhibition of astroglial differentiation. EMBO J 32(11):1598-612. 4. Xie Y, Vessey JP, Konecna A, et al (2007). The GTP-binding protein Septin7 is critical for dendrite branching and dendritic spine morphology. Current Biology, 17: 1746-51