Multiple Mechanisms Underlying Embryonic Axis Formation Triggered by Maternal Factor Huluwa
Speaker: Meng Anming
Meng Anming holds the Qiantang Professorship at the School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, and is a Yangtze Distinguished Professor as well as a principal investigator at the Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Southwest Agricultural University in 1983 and his PhD in Genetics from the University of Nottingham in 1991. His distinguished accolades cover the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress, C.C. Tan Life Science Achievement Award, Outstanding Achievement Award of the Chinese Society for Cell Biology, Lifetime Achievement Award for Chinese Zebrafish Research, National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and Qiushi Outstanding Young Scholar Award.
Adopting zebrafish and mice as research models, Professor Meng has dedicated decades to uncovering molecular mechanisms governing early vertebrate embryonic development. His research team has discovered dozens of pivotal factors that govern cell fate in embryonic cleavage, early blastula development, germ layer induction and differentiation, together with dorsoventral and anteroposterior axis formation. The functional pathways of these factors have been systematically clarified, substantially advancing basic theories in embryology. His research outcomes have been published in top-tier journals such as Science, Cell, Developmental Cell, Nature Cell Biology and Development, gaining extensive international academic acclaim.
He has held key posts including Director of the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Chairman of China Union of Life Science Societies; President of the Zoological Society of China; Vice President of the Genetics Society of China; Director of the Chinese Society for Cell Biology and President of the Asia-Pacific Developmental Biology Consortium.
Currently, he acts as Editor-in-Chief of Current Zoology, and serves on editorial and advisory boards of numerous renowned journals, namely Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Genetics and Genomics, Cell Research, BMC Developmental Biology, Mechanisms of Development, Journal of Molecular Cell Biology, Open Biology, Development, National Science Review and National Science Open.
Lecture Time: 09:00–11:00, Thursday, May 21, 2026
Venue: Room 244, Huiyuan Building, Qianhu Campus, Nanchang University
Organizers: Academic Committee of Nanchang University
School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanchang University
