Professor De-Hua Wang, Ph.D. Head of Animal Physiological Ecology Group; Deputy Director of State Key Lab of Integrated management for Pest Insects and Rodents,Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Beijing, China CONTACT: TEL: 86 10 64807073 (O), FAX: 86 10 64807099 E-Mail: wangdh@ioz.ac.cn

RESEARCH INTERESTS
1. Molecular mechanisms of thermogenesis and thermoregulation in small mammals
2. Energy metabolism, digestive physiology, and body mass regulation in small mammals
3. Animal Physiology and Behavior

EDUCATION
1990 to 1993, Ph.D., Department of Biology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing.
1985 to 1988, MSc, the Department of Ecology, Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, Qinghai Province.
1981 to 1985, BSc, Department of Biology, Shangdong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong Province.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2000-, Professor, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2002-, Adjunct Professor of the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
1995-2000, Associate Professor, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1993-1995, Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1990-, Assistant professor, Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
October 1997-April 1998, Visiting scholar in the Lab of Digestive Physiology, School of Biological Sciences, Sydney University of Australia
October 2000-March 2001, Visiting professor in the Institute of Animal Physiology, Department of Biology, Phillips University Marburg, Germany
Jan 2002- March 2002, Visiting professor in the Physiological Ecology Lab, Department of Zoology, and University of New England, Australia
June 2002-August 2002, Visiting Professor in the Animal Nutritional Lab, Agricultural Faculty of Okayama University
Jan 2004-April 2004, Visiting professor in the Lab of Social Behavior and Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Florida State University, USA
Jan 2007- April 2007, Visiting professor in the Lab of Integrative Physiology, Department of Zoology, Aberdeen University, Scotland, UK

CURRENT GRANTS
1. NSFC project: Geographic variation of energy and water metabolism in Mongolian gerbils. 2015.1-2018.12
2. NSFC project: Molecular physiology of metabolism and thermoregulation of Mongolian gerbils in thermal neutral zone. 2013.1-2016.12
3. Excellent Young Scientists Grant of NSFC: Ecological Physiology
4. Key Project of NSFC: Mechanisms of energy balance and thermogenesis in Mongolian gerbils and Brandt’s voles
5. National Basic Research Program of China: Ecological immunity of small mammals

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Journal Editorial Board:
Editor- in- Chief, Acta Theriologica Sinica
Editorial member of Hormones and Behavior
Editorial member of Acta Zoologica Sinica
Editorial member of Chinese Journal of Zoology
Membership of Scientific Societies:
President of the Division of Animal Ecology, China Ecological Society
Member of China Zoological Society
Member of the Division of Mammalogy, China Zoological Society

1. Xu YC., Yang DB; JR Speakman., Wang DH*. 2014. Oxidative stress in response to natural and experimentally elevated reproductive effort is tissue dependent. Functional Ecology, 28:402-410.
2. Yang HD Q Wang and Wang DH. 2014. Food hoarding, but not food intake, is attenuated by acute diazepam treatment in female Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus). Hormones and Behavior, 66: 186-195.
3. Pan Q, M Li, YL Shi, HW Liu, JR Speakman and Wang DH. 2014. Lipidomics reveals mitochondrial membrane remodeling associated with acute thermoregulation in a rodent with a wide thermoneutral zone. Lipid, 49:715-730.
4. Yang DB., Xu YC., DH Wang*., JR Speakman. 2013. Effects of reproduction on immuno-suppression and oxidative damage, and hence support or otherwise for their roles as mechanisms underpinning life history tradeoffs, are tissue and assay dependent. Journal of Experimental Biology, 216:4242-4250.
5. Liu QS, Zhang ZQ, Caviedes-Vidal E and Wang DH *. 2013. Seasonal plasticity of gut morphology and small intestinal enzymes in free-living Mongolian gerbils. Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 183:511-523.
6. Yang DB, Li L, Wang LP, Chi QS, Hambly C, Wang DH* and JR Speakman. 2013. Limits to sustained energy intake. XIX. A test of the heat dissipation limitation hypothesis in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus). Journal of Experimental Biology, 216:3358-3368.
7. Chen JF; Zhong WQ; Wang DH*. 2012. Seasonal changes in body mass, energy intake and thermogenesis in Maximowiczi's voles (Microtus maximowiczii) from the Inner Mongolian grassland. Journal of comparative physiology B-biochemical systemic and environmental physiology, 182(2):275-285.
8. Xu YC; Yang DB; Wang DH*. 2012.No evidence for a trade-off between reproductive investment and immunity in a rodent. PLoS ONE. 7(5):e37182.
9. Yang DB; Xu YC; Wang DH*.2012. Partial removal of brown adipose tissue enhances humoral immunity in warm-acclimated Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus). General and comparative endocrinology, 175(1):144-152.
10. Cui JG, Tang GB, Wang DH*, Speakman JR. 2011. Effects of leptin infusion during peak lactation on food intake, body composition, litter growth and maternal neuroendocrine status in female Brandt’s voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii). Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol.300: R447-R459.
11. Zhang XY, Zhang Q, Wang DH*. 2011.Pre- and post-weaning cold exposure does not lead to an obese phenotype in adult Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii). Horm Behav. 60:210–218.
12. Xu DL, Liu XY, Wang DH*. 2011. Food restriction and refeeding has no effect on cellular and humoral immunity in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus). Physiol Biochem Zool. 84(1):87-98.
13. Yang Hui-Di, Wang Qian, Wang Zuoxin and Wang Dehua. 2011. Food hoarding and associated neuronal activation in brain reward circuitry in Mongolian gerbils. Physiology and Behavior 104: 429 – 436.
14. Cui Jian-Guo, Tang Gang-Bin, Wang De-Hua* and John R Speakman. 2011. Effects of leptin infusion during peak lactation on food intake, body composition, litter growth and maternal neuroendocrine status in female Brandt’s voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii). American Journal of Physiology: Regul Integr Comp Physiol 300:R447-459.
15. Chi Qing-Sheng and Wang De-Hua*. 2011. Thermal physiology and energetics in male desert hamsters (Phodopus roborovskii) during cold acclimation. J Comp Physiol B. 181: 91-103.
16. Xu De-Li, Liu Xin-Yu and Wang De-Hua*. 2011. Food Restriction and Refeeding Has No Effect on Cellular and Humoral Immunity in Mongolian Gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 84(1): 87-98.
17. Zhao ZJ, Chen JF and Wang DH 2010. Diet-induced obesity in the short-day-lean Brandt's vole. Physiology & Behavior 99 : 47–53
18. Tang GB Cui JG and Wang DH 2009. The role for hypoleptinemia in cold adaptation in Brandt's voles. American Journal of Physiology: Regul Integr Comp Physiol 297: R1293–R13.
19. Wu Su-Hui, Li-Na Zhang, John R. Speakman and De-Hua Wang 2009 Limits to sustained energy intake. XI. A test of the heat dissipation limitation hypothesis in lactating Brandt’s voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii). The Journal of Experimental Biology 212, 3455-3465.
20. Zhao ZJ, Chen JF and Wang DH. 2009. Plasticity in the physiological energetics of Mongolian gerbils is associated with diet quality. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 82:504-515.
21. Tang, G. B., Cui, J. G., Wang, D. H., 2008. Hypothalamic suppressor-of-cytokine-signalling 3 mRNA is elevated and pro-opiomelanocortin mRNA is reduced during pregnancy in Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii ). Journal of Neuroendocrinology. 20, 1038-44.
22. Zhang, X. Y., Li, Y. L., Wang, D. H., 2008. Large litter size increases maternal energy intake but has no effect on UCP1 content and serum-leptin concentrations in lactating Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii). Journal of Comparative Physiology [B]. 178, 637-45.
23. Li Feng-Hua, Zhong Wen-Qin, Wang Zuoxin, Wang De-Hua. 2007. Rank in a food competition test and humoral immune functions in male Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii). Physiology and Behavior. 90: 490-495.
24. Li Xing-Sheng, Wang De-Hua. 2007. Photoperiod and temperature can regulate body mass, serum leptin concentration, and uncoupling protein 1 in Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii) and Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 80: 326-334.
25. Liu Quan-Sheng, Wang De-Hua. 2007. Effects of diet quality on phenotypic flexibility of organ size and digestive function in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus). Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 177: 509-518.
26. Wang Jian-Mei, Zhang Yan-Ming, Wang De-Hua. 2006. Seasonal thermogenesis and body mass regulation in plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae). Oecologia. 149(3):373-82.
27. Zhang Xue-Ying, Wang De-Hua. 2006. Energy metabolism, thermogenesis and body mass regulation in Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii) during cold acclimation and rewarming. Hormone and Behavior. 50(1):61-9.
28. Zhao Zhi-Jun, Wang De-Hua. 2006. Short photoperiod influences energy intake and serum leptin level in Brandt's voles (Microtus brandtii). Hormone and Behavior. 49(4):463-9.
29. Wang Jian-Mei, Zhang Yan-Ming, Wang De-Hua. 2006. Seasonal regulations of energetics, serum concentrations of leptin, and uncoupling protein 1 content of brown adipose tissue in root voles (Microtus oeconomus) form the Qinghai-tibtan plateau. Journal of Comparative Physiology [B] 176: 663-671
30. Li Xing-Sheng and Wang De-Hua 2005 Regulation of body weight and thermogenesis in seasonally acclimatized Brandt’s voles (Microtus brandti). Hormones and Behavior 48:321-328.

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