Xuelu Wang joined the lab in 1995 to pursue his PhD in the  Program of Plant Sciences. From 1989 to 1992 he was at The Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing, China  where he received his MSc. degree in Plant Genetics and Breeding. He received his BS. degree  in   Plant Genetics and Breeding at Hebei Agricultural University, China. His research interests includes the improvement of cereal nutritional quality, especially lysine content, with genetic, biochemical, and molecular biology approaches. Through genetic screening, QTL mapping with SSRs, mRNA profiliing, we have identified several candidate genes related to maize endosperm protein-bound and free lysine content. Biochemical and molecular characterization of genes involved in the aspartate pathway are performed to investigate the regulation of lysine biosynthesis and degradation. He is also interested in applying opaque-2 modifier genes to develop Quality Protein Maize (QPMs) and understanding its biochemical and molecular mechanisms in maize endosperm modification.

Now, he is a post-doc research associated in  Joanne Chory's lab at the Salk Institute - San Diego, CA.

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