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2026

2026-05-15, Professor Liwei Xie’s team at Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology and collaborators published a Science Bulletin review on copper biology and cuproptosis. Institutional announcement

2026-03-17, Professor Liwei Xie’s team reported how probiotics-derived postbiotics activate adipocyte thermogenesis and improve metabolic syndrome. Institutional announcement | Article

2025

2025-12-25, the team recorded Professor Liwei Xie’s move to the Faculty of Synthetic Biology at Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology as a tenured associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences; the official faculty profile lists the appointment as 2026.01–present. Official faculty profile | English profile

2025-12-25, the team’s new research and translation profile was published: gut microbiome and human health, skeletal-muscle and adipose stem-cell physiology, and trace-mineral metabolism, connected through a “basic research–technology transfer–clinical application” framework. Research profile

2025-12-25, the team’s new contact information was posted: xieliwei@suat-sz.edu.cn; Faculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, No. 1 Gongchang Road, Guangming District, Shenzhen; 0755-8880-2424. Faculty contact page

2025-11-10, Hui Wu, Xu Jiawei, Zhi Wen, Yunwu Han, Yaxi Liu, Shengyun Chen, Zhiye Ye, Jianbo Li, Liwei Xie and Xiaoli Wu published a microbiome–gut–brain study in Schizophrenia Bulletin. PubMed

2025-05-20, the team co-published “Berberine combined with stachyose protects against obesity…” in Science China Life Sciences. Institutional announcement

2023–2024

2023-04-04, the Gut Microbiota and Health team announced recruitment and described its AI, high-throughput screening, single-cell, sequencing and mouse microbiome capabilities. Team profile and recruitment

2023, the Guangdong Science and Technology Department recorded completion of the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar project “肠道菌群与宿主基因互作调控能量代谢稳态感应的分子机制研究” (project 2020B1515020046), led by 谢黎炜. Government acceptance record

2022

2022-05-23, Liwei Xie shared his return-to-China experience and the team’s healthy-aging research at a Guangzhou returnee scholars’ event. Report

2022-02-04, Bingdong Liu published a paper in Frontiers in Genetics. Article

2021

2021-12-07, Liujing Huang published a paper in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. Article

2021-09-15, Susu Zhang published a paper in Microbiology Spectrum. Article

2021-05-06, Hongrong Ding published a paper in Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle. PubMed

2020

2020-07-17, Liwei Xie presented the team’s iron-homeostasis, adipose thermogenesis and muscle-regeneration research at the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences. CAS Guangzhou Branch report

2020-05-14, Guihua Pan published a paper in FEMS Microbiology Letters. PubMed

2020-04-29, Xudong Mai published a paper in Chinese Science Bulletin. Article

2020-04-15, Zhihong Liu published a paper in Frontiers in Pharmacology. PubMed

2020-03-04, Xiaohan Pan published a paper in Advanced Science. PubMed

2020-02-28, Dr. Liwei Xie received the Guangdong Province Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (¥1 million).

2020-02-05, Bingdong Liu published a paper in FASEB Journal. PubMed

2018

2018-03-22, Liwei Xie presented “Oxygen links gut microbiota and muscle stem cell physiology” at the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences. UCAS report