Xiou Cao
Address:
Room 270 Jones Building,
DUMC,
207 Research Drive,
Durham NC 27710.
Research Interests:
Neuroimmunology, antibiotics, host-pathogen interactions, molecular genetics
Biography:
- Xiou Cao is a Research Assistant and PhD student in the laboratory of Dr. Alejandro Aballay at Duke University Medical Center.
- His main research focuses on using C. elegans as a model organism to study host-pathogen interactions and neural regulation of immunity.
- His research highlighted the role of dopamine signaling and dopamine neural circuit in the regulation of p38/PMK-1 MAPK pathway in nematode C. elegans.