Bingzhong Xue

Ph.D.. University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, TN. '00
Post-doctoral fellow: Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA. '00-03
Post-doctoral fellow: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA '03-07

Regulation of Energy Homeostasis, Brown Adipocyte Biology, Autonomic Regulation of Adipose Tissue Function, Macrophage Inflammation in Metabolic Diseases

Bingzhong Xue is currently a Professor of Biology at Georgia State University. She received a Ph.D. Degree in Nutrition from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, TN. She later completed her postdoctoral training at Pennington Biomedical Research Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School. She joined the faculty of Wake Forest University Health Science in 2007 as an assistant professor of Internal Medicine. In 2012, she moved to Georgia State University to continue her research. Bingzhong’s research interests have been focused on the integrative pathophysiology of obesity and its related disorders. Specifically, she has a great interest in the study of brown/beige/white adipocyte biology, autonomic nervous system regulation of energy metabolism in peripheral tissues., and macrophage inflammation in metabolic diseases.