Associate professor Zhang Xue-Ying , Ph.D. TEL：86 10 64807100 E-Mail: Zhangxy@ioz.ac.cn

Research Interests
Focus on exploring neuroendocrine mechanism of metabolism and body mass regulation in small mammals, especially interested in the roles of leptin and neuropeptides in regulating body mass and thermogenesis.

Other professional activity
Editorial member of Acta Theriologica Sinica.

Academic Awards
2009, awarded “outstanding junior scientist in Ecology”
2007, Di’ao Second Class Awards from Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2007, Excellent graduate in Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2006-2007, Excellent Ph.D. student in Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2005-2006, Excellent Ph.D. student in Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2005, Excellent master dissertation in Shandong Province.

Professional experience
2010, 1- present Associate professor in Animal Physiological Ecology Group, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2010, 3- 2011, 3 Visiting scientist in Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
2007, 7- 2009,12 Assistant professor in Group of Animal Ecophysiology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.　
2007, 6- 2007, 7 Cooperative study in Institute of Ecology & Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia.
2006, 2- 2006, 8 As a visiting scholar in Department of Psychology & Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, US.

Education
2004-2007, Ph.D., Institue of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Beijing.
2001-2004, MSc, Department of Biology, Shangdong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong Province.
1994-1998, BSc, Department of Biology, Shangdong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong Province.

Current grants

• NSFC project: Neuronal basis for seasonal food hoarding in Mongolian gerbils. Principal investigator, Jan 2015-Dec 2018.
• NSFC project: Neuroendocrinological mechanism for the plasticity of offspring metabolic performance induced by maternal environmental stress in Brandt’s voles. Principal investigator, Jan 2013-Dec 2016.
• NSFC project: Neuroendocrine mechanisms for regulating thermogenesis and body mass during reproduction in wild Brandt’s voles. Principal investigator, Jan 2010-Dec 2012.
• Key Project of the National Eleventh-Five Year Research Program of China: Survey of physiological, biochemical and genetic parameters in Brandt’s voles and greater long - tailed hamsters. Principal investigator, June 2009-May 2011.
• IPM Project: Role of leptin in regulating metabolism and body mass during reproduction in Brandt’s voles, April 2008-April 2010.

Publications

1. Zhang Q, Lin Y, Zhang XY, Wang DH. 2014. Cold exposure inhibits hypothalamic Kiss-1 gene expression, serum leptin concentration, and delays reproductive development in male Brandt's vole (Lasiopodomys brandtii). International Journal of Biometeorology. DOI 10.1007/s00484-014-0879-4.
2. Huffman DM, Augenlicht LH, Zhang X, Lofrese JJ, Atzmon G, Chamberland JP, Mantzoros CS. 2013. Abdominal Obesity, Independent from Caloric Intake, Accounts for the Development of Intestinal Tumors in Apc1638N/+ Female Mice. Cancer Prevention Research. 6(3): 177-187.
3. Zhang X, Liu X, Wang D. 2012. Seasonal Changes in Body mass and Energy Balance. In: Marshall D. McCue (Editor). Comparative Physiology of Fasting, Starvation, and Food Limitation, Springer, 207-216.
4. Zhang XY, Yang HD, Zhang Q, Wang Z, Wang DH. 2011. Increased Feeding and Food Hoarding following Food Deprivation Are Associated with Activation of Dopamine and Orexin Neurons in Male Brandt’s Voles. PLoS One. 6(10):e26408.
5. Zhang XY, Zhang Q, Wang DH. 2011. Litter size variation in hypothalamic gene expression determines adult metabolic phenotype in Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii). PLoS One. 6(5):e19913.
6. 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). Hormones and Behavior. 60:210–218.
7. Zhang XY, Jing BB, Wang DH. 2009. Cold exposure does not decrease serum leptin concentration, but increases energy intake and thermogenic capacity in pregnant Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii). Zoology. 112: 206-216.
8. Zhang XY, Wang DH. 2008. Different physiological roles of serum leptin in the regulation of energy intake and thermogenesis between pregnancy and lactation in primiparous Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology [C]. 148: 390–400.
9. Zhang XY, Li YL, Wang DH. 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, 637-645.
10. Zhang XY, Wang DH. 2007. Thermogenesis, food intake and serum leptin in cold-exposed lactating Brandt’s voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii). Journal of Experimental Biology. 210, 512-21.
11. Zhang XY, Wang DH. 2006. Energy metabolism, thermogenesis and body mass regulation in Brandt's voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii) during cold acclimation and rewarming. Hormones and Behavior. 50(1), 61-69.
12. Zhang XY, Ai HB, Cui XY. 2006. Comparative studies on the effects of nucleus ambiguus and dorsal motor nucleus of vagus on gastric H+ and HCO3- secretion in rats. World Journal of Gastroenterology. 12(20), 3271-3274.
13. Ai HB, Zhang XY, Zhu JP. 2004. Comparative studies on the wide frequency band electrocardiogram and vectorcardiogram in pigeon and mouse. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A. 137, 577-583.
14. Lou MF, Zhang XY*, Fu RS, Wang DH. 2013. Effects of high protein diet and reproduction on energy intake and thermogenesis in Brandt’s voles. Acta Theriologica Sinica. 33 (2): 95-105.
15. Zhang XY, Ai HB. 2004. Progress in the study on the nucleus ambiguus. Chinese Journal of Neuroscience. 20(2), 180-186. (Published in English with Chinese abstract)