Email:donghuatian@yahoo.com.cn

Education

1996   Ph.D. in Neurobiology, Post-graduate Medical School, the General PLA Hospital, China
            Thesis: Signaling of Cytokines in the Process of Cerebral Ischemia
1993    M.A. in Neurobiology, The Fourth Military Medical College, China
            Thesis: c-fos Expression in the Rat Brain after Closed Head Injury
1987    B.A. in Medicine, The Fourth Military Medical College, China

Work Experience

2008 - present  School of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing Normal University, Beijing
2005 - 2007   Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University, USA
2002 - 2005   Visiting Professor, Beijing Basic Medical Science Institute, China
1999 - 2002   Postdoctoral Fellow. Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 
1993 - 1999   Senior Neurologist, the General PLA Hospital (301 Hospital), China
1990 - 1996   Senior Neurologist, Tangdu Hospital, China
1987 - 1990   General Practitioner, Tangdu Hospital, China

Publications(Selected)

Jin P, Duan R, Qurashi A, Qin Y, Tian D, Rosser TC, Liu H, Feng Y and Warren ST, Pur alpha binds to rCGG repeats and modulates repeat-mediated neurodegeneration in a Drosophila model of fragile X tremor/ataxia syndrome, Neuron, 55(4):556-64, 2007 Aug 16.

Chen Y, Tian D, Ku L, Osterhout DJ and Feng Y, The selective RNA-binding protein quaking I (QKI) is necessary and sufficient for promoting oligodendroglia differentiation, J Biol Chem, 282(32):23553-60, Aug 10, 2007 , Epub 2007 Jun 15.

Zhao L, Tian D, Xia M, Macklin WB and Feng Y, Rescuing qkV dysmyelination by a single isoform of the selective RNA-binding protein QKI.J Neurosci, 26(44):11278-86, Nov 1,2006.

Wu C, Tian D, Feng Y, Polak P, Wei J, Sharp A, Stankoff B, Lubetzki C, Zalc B, Mufson EJ, Gould RM, Feinstein DL and Wang Y. A novel fluorescent probe that is brain permeable and selectively binds to myelin, J Histochem Cytochem.,54(9):997-1004, Sep, 2006 , Epub 2006 May 18.

Ma Z, Liu T, Li X, Zhou T, Xiao L, Que H, Tian D, Jing S and Liu S, Identification of up-regulated genes after complete spinal cord transection in adult rats, Cell Mol Neurobiol, 26(3):277-88, May,2006;Epub 2006 May 6.

Litvak V, Tian D, Carmon S and Lev S, Nir2, a human homolog of Drosophila melanogaster retinal degeneration B protein, is essential for cytokinesis. Mol Cell Biol ,22(14):5064-75,Jul, 2002,

Tian D and Lev S,Cellular and developmental distribution of human homologues of the Drosophilia rdgB protein in the rat retina.Invest Ophthalmol Vis, 2002, Jun, 43(6):1946-53.

Tian D and Litvak V, Toledo-Rodriguez M, Carmon S, Lev S. Nir2, a novel regulator of cell morphogenesis,Mol Cell Biol,22(8):2650-62, Apr, 2002.

Litvak V, Tian D, Shaul YD, and Lev S, Targeting of PYK2 to focal adhesions as a cellular mechanism for convergence between integrins and G protein-coupled receptor signaling cascades, J Biol Chem,275(42):32736-46, Oct 20, 2000.

Tian D, Litvak V and Lev S. Cerebral ischemia and seizures induce tyrosine phosphorylation of PYK2 in neurons and microglial cells, J Neurosci,20(17):6478-87, Sep 1, 2000.