Xiaoqi Feng is a Chinese plant geneticist, currently based at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, England.[1]

From 2008 to 2010, Feng was a lecturer at the University of Oxford where she won the Mendel Medal in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences category of the SET (science, engineering and technology) for Britain award,[2] before moving to work as a postdoctoral researcher under Daniel Zilbermann at the University of California, Berkeley in 2011. She remained at Berkeley until 2014 when she joined the John Innes Centre as a project leader.

In 2018, Feng was named one of 26 Young Investigators named by the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).[3]

Feng is currently researching epigenetic reprogramming in plant germlines[4][5] and is credited with the discovery of 'immortal plant cells', which provide a reprogramming mechanism that allows plants to maintain fitness down the generations.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Dr Xiaoqi Feng". John Innes Centre. 2018-11-26. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  2. ↑ "Xiaoqi Feng has been awarded a prize in the SET for Britain competition". Magdalen College Oxford. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  3. ↑ "European Recognition For Talented Early-Career Researcher". EuropeanSeed. 2018-12-17. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  4. ↑ "Xiaoqi Feng - Get into research". 7 March 2019.
  5. ↑ "Dr Xiaoqi Feng". John Innes Centre. 2018-11-26. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  6. ↑ "Study reveals new insight into 'immortal' plant cells". phys.org. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  7. ↑ "New insight into 'immortal' plant cells: A new study has revealed an undiscovered reprogramming mechanism that allows plants to maintain fitness down the generations". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
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