Education and working experiences:

Dr. Xixian Wang received his PhD in biomedical engineering from Huazhong University of science and technology in 2015. He joined Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a Postdoctoral fellow in Single Cell Center in 2016 and became an Associate Professor in 2020. His research interests focus on the development of single cell analysis/sorting platform based on microfluidics and single-cell Raman spectroscopy. He already published ~20 peer-reviewed papers on Science Advances, Biotechnology Advances, Lab on a chip, Anal Chem, etc., applied for 5 invention patents, and undertake 6 projects as PI, including general grant of NSFC, military projects, etc.

Research interests:

Single cell analysis, Microfluidics chip, Raman-activated cell sorting

Featured Publication:

1. Xixian Wang#; Yi Xin#; Lihui Ren#; Zheng Sun; Pengfei Zhu; Yuetong Ji; Chunyu Li; Jian Xu*; Bo Ma*; Positive dielectrophoresis-based Raman-activated droplet sorting for culture-free and label-free screening of enzyme function in vivo, Science Advances, 2020, 6(32): eabb3521

2. Yuehui He#; Xixian Wang#; Bo Ma*; jian Xu*; Ramanome technology platform for label-free screening and sorting of microbial cell factories at single-cell resolution, Biotechnology Advances,2019, 37(6): 107388.

3.  Xixian Wang#, Anle Ge#, Liang Hu, Xiaojun Feng, Wei Du*, Bifeng Liu*, A microfluidic microfilter chip driven by electrotaxis and fluid flow for size-dependent C. elegans sorting with high purity and efficiency. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2018, 260: 311-319.

4.  Xixian Wang#, Lihui Ren#, Yetian Su, Yuetong Ji, Yaoping Liu, Chunyu Li, Xunrong Li, Yi Zhang, Wei Wang, Qiang Hu, Danxiang Han, Jian Xu,* Bo Ma*, Raman-Activated Droplet Sorting (RADS) for Label-Free High-Throughput Screening of Microalgal Single-Cells. Analytical Chemistry, 2017, 89 12569-12577.

5.  Xixian Wang#, Anle Ge#, Liang Hu, Xiaojun Feng, Wei Du*, Bifeng Liu, A novel on-chip immobilization strategy for imaging analysis of neuronal response to gas cues in C. elegans. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2017, 244: 1152-1159.