Contact

E-mail:sunneyxie@pku.edu.cn
Tel:+86-010-62744061
Add:Rm.107, Biomedical Pioneering Innovation Center, Integrated Science Research Center No.2,Peking University
Mailing Address:BIOPIC, Integrated Science Research Center No.2, Peking University, Yiheyuan Rd., No. 5, Haidian District, Beijing, 100871

Lab Web:http://sunneyxielab.org/

Xiaoliang Sunney Xie
Lee Shau Kee Professor;Director,ICG
Resume

2019.11-Present, Dean of Sciences, Peking University

2018.7-Present, Lee Shao-kee Professor, Peking University

2016.8-PresentDirector, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics

2011-Present, PI, PKU-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences

2010-2022.03, Founder and Director, Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center (now named Biomedical Pioneering Innovation Center), Peking University

2010-Present, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University

2009-Present, Cheung Kong Visiting Professor of Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Peking University

2009-2018, Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University

1999-2008, Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

1992-1998, Senior Research Scientist to Chief Scientist, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

1990-1992, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago

1990, Ph.D, University of California at San Diego Chemistry, Chemistry, 1990

1984, B.S. Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China, Chemistry

Research Interests

Prof. Xie’s current research interests include: 

(1) Development of single-cell sequencing technology: single-cell genome sequencing, transcriptome sequencing, methylation sequencing, chromatin three-dimensional result analysis, chromatin openness detection and single-cell multiomics.  (2) Application of single cell sequencing technology in gene expression regulation: mechanism of gene expression regulated by transcription factors, the dynamic changes of epigenetic modifications during early embryonic development, how epigenetic coordination affects the construction of gene regulation network, etc.  (3) Application of single cell sequencing technology in medical Transformation: early cancer screening and diagnosis, preimplantation genetic screening and diagnosis in in vitro fertilization, high-throughput antibody drug screening, etc.

Awards and Honors

2021 Zhongguancun Award for Outstanding Contributions
2017 Member of Chinese Academy of Science

2017 Qiushi Prize
2016 Ray Wu Award, Chinese Biological Investigators Society
2015 Shizhang Bei Prize in Biophsyics, Chinese Biophysical Society
2015 Albany Prize in Medicine Recipient
2015 ACS Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry
2014 Fellow of Optical Society of America
2014 Humboldt Fellowship, Germany
2013 NIH Director's Pioneer Award Recipient
2013 Ellis R. Lippincott Award, Optical Society of America and Society for Applied Spectroscopy
2012 Harrison Howe Award, Rochester Section of American Chemical Society
2012 Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
2012 Biophysical Society Founders Award
2010 Honorary Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society

Selected Publication

COVID-19

  1. Cao, Yunlong; ...; Shen, Zhongyang; Wang, Youchun; Xie, Xiaoliang Sunney*."Imprinted SARS-CoV-2 humoral immunity induces convergent Omicron RBD evolution," Nature DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05644-7 (2022)
  2. Cao, Yunlong; ...; Xiao, Junyu; Xie, Xiaoliang Sunney*."Rational identification of potent and broad sarbecovirus-neutralizing antibody cocktails from SARS convalescents," Cell Reports DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111845 (2022)
  3. Cao, Yunlong; ...; Shen, Zhongyang; Wang, Youchun; Wang, Xiangxi; Xiao, Junyu; Xie, Xiaoliang Sunney*. "BA.2.12.1, BA.4 and BA.5 escape antibodies elicited by Omicron infection," Nature 608, 593-602 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04980-y (2022)
  4. Cao, Yunlong; ...; Wang, Xiangxi; Xiao, Junyu; Wang, Youchun; Xie, Xiaoliang Sunney*."Omicron escapes the majority of existing SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies," Nature 602, 657-663 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04385-3 (2021)
  5. Du, Shuo; Liu, Pulan; Zhang, Zhiying; Xiao, Tianhe; Yasimayi, Ayijiang; Huang, Weijin; Wang, Youchun; Cao, Yunlong; Xie, Xiaoliang Sunney; Xiao, Junyu "Structures of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.351 neutralizing antibodies provide insights into cocktail design against concerning variants," Cell Research 31, 1130–1133 DOI: 10.1038/s41422-021-00555-0 (2021)
  6. Cao, Yunlong; Yisimayi, Ayijiang; Bai, Yali; Huang, Weijin; Li, Xiaofeng; Zhang, Zhiying; Yuan, Tianjiao; An, Ran; Wang, Jing; Xiao, Tianhe; Du, Shuo; Ma, Wenping; Song, Liyang; Li, Yongzheng; Li, Xiang; Song, Weiliang; Wu, Jiajing; Liu, Shuo; Li, Xuemei; Zhang, Yonghong; Su, Bin; Guo, Xianghua; Wei, Yangyang; Gao, Chuanping; Zhang, Nana; Zhang, Yifei; Dou, Yang; Xu, Xiaoyu; Shi, Rui; Lu, Bai; Jin, Ronghua; Ma, Yingmin; Qin, Chengfeng; Wang, Youchun; Feng, Yingmei; Xiao, Junyu; Xie, Xiaoliang Sunney "Humoral immune response to circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants elicited by inactivated and RBD-subunit vaccines," Cell Research 31(7), 732-741 DOI: 10.1038/s41422-021-00514-9 (2021)
  7. Du, Shuo; Cao, Yunlong; Zhu, Qinyu; YU, Pin; Qi, Feifei; Wang, Guopeng; Du, Xiaoxia; Bao, Linlin; Deng, Wei; Zhu, Hua; Liu, Jiangning; Nie, Jianhui; Zheng, Yinghui; Liang, Haoyu; Liu, Ruixue; Gong, Shuran; Liu, Jiangning; Xu, Hua; Yisimayi, Ayijiang; Lv, Qi; Wang, Bo; He, Runsheng; Han, Yunlin; Zhao, Wenjie; Bai, Yali; Qu, Yajin; Gao, Xiang; Ji, Chenggong; Wang, Qisheng; Gao, Ning; Huang, Weijin; Wang, Youchun; Xie, X. Sunney; Su, Xiao-dong; Xiao, Junyu; Qin, Chuan "Structurally resolved SARS-CoV-2 antibody shows high efficacy in severely infected hamsters and provides a potent cocktail pairing strategy," Cell 183(4), 1013-1023.e13 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.09.035 (2020)
  8. Cao, Yunlong; Su, Bin; Guo, Xianghua; Sun, Wenjie; Deng, Yongqiang; Bao, Linlin; Zhu, Qinyu; Zhang, Xu; Zheng, Yinghui; Geng, Chenyang; Chai, Xiaoran; He, Runsheng; Li, Xiaofeng; Lv, Qi; Zhu, Hua; Deng, Wei; Xu, Yanfeng; Wang, Yanjun; Qiao, Luxin; Tan, Yafang; Song, Liyang; Wang, Guopeng; Du, Xiaoxia; Gao, Ning; Liu, Jiangning; Xiao, Junyu; Su, Xiaodong; Du, Zongmin; Feng, Yingmei; Qin, Chuan; Qin, Chengfeng; Jin, Ronghua; Xie, X. Sunney "Potent Neutralizing Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 Identified by High-Throughput Single-Cell Sequencing of Convalescent Patients' B Cells," Cell 182(1), 73-84.e16 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.05.025 (2020)

​​Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Imaging 

  1. Xie, X. Sunney; Dunn, Robert C. "Probing Single Molecule Dynamics" Science 265: 361-364 (1994).
  2. Sánchez, Erik J.; Novotny, Lukas; Xie, X. Sunney. "Near-field Fluorescence Microscopy Based on Two-photon Excitation with Metal Tips" Phys Rev Lett 82: 4014-4017 (1999).
  3. Min, Wei; Lu, Sijia; Chong, Shasha; Roy, Rahul; Holtom, Gary R.; Xie, X. Sunney. "Imaging Chromophores with Undetectable Fluorescence by Stimulated Emission Microscopy" Nature 461: 1105-1109 (2009).
  4. Chong, Shasha; Min, Wei; Xie, X. Sunney. "Ground-State Depletion Microscopy: Detection Sensitivity of Single-Molecule Optical Absorption at Room Temperature" J Phys Chem Lett 1:3316-3322 (2010).
  5. Zhou, Yuexin; Wang, Ping; Tang, Feng; Gao, Ge; Huang, Lei; Wei, Wensheng; Xie, X. Sunney “Painting a specific chromosome with CRISPR/Cas9 for live-cell imaging”, Cell Research, doi:10.1038/cr.2017.9 (2017).
  6. Cao, Yunlong; Wang, Jing; Jian, Fanchong; Xiao, Tianhe; Song, Weiliang; Yasimayi, Ayijiang; Huang, Weijin; Li, Qianqian; Wang, Peng; An, Ran; Wang, Jing; Wang, Yao; Niu, Xiao; Yang, Sijie; Liang, Hui; Sun, Haiyan; Li, Tao; Yu, Yuanling; Cui, Qianqian; Liu, Shuo; Yang, Xiaodong; Du, Shuo; Zhang, Zhiying; Hao, Xiaohua; Shao, Fei; Jin, Ronghua; Wang, Xiangxi; Xiao, Junyu; Wang, Youchun; Xie, Xiaoliang Sunney "Omicron escapes the majority of existing SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies," Nature 602, 657-663 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04385-3 (2021)

Single Molecule Enzymology

  1. Lu, H. Peter; Xun, Luying; Xie, X. Sunney. "Single-Molecule Enzymatic Dynamics" Science 282: 1877-1882 (1998).
  2. Yang, Haw; Luo, Guobin; Karnchanaphanurach, Pallop; Louie, Tai-Man; Rech, Ivan; Cova, Sergio; Xun, Luying; Xie, X. Sunney. "Protein Conformational Dynamics Probed by Single-Molecule Electron Transfer" Science 302: 262-266 (2003).
  3. Min, Wei; Luo, Guobin; Cherayil, Binny J.; Kou, S. C.; Xie, X. Sunney. "Observation of a Power-Law Memory Kernel for Fluctuations within a Single Protein Molecule" Phys Rev Lett 94: 198302(1-4) (2005).
  4. English, Brian P.; Min, Wei; van Oijen, Antoine M.; Lee, Kang Taek; Luo, Guobin; Sun, Hongye; Cherayil, Binny J.; Kou, S.C.; Xie, X. Sunney. "Ever-Fluctuating Single Enzyme Molecules: Michaelis-Menten Equation Revisited" Nat Chem Bio 2: 87-94 (2006).
  5. Blainey, Paul C.; Luo, Guobin; Ko9u, S.C.; Mangel, Walter F.; Verdine, Gregory L.; Bagchi, Biman; Xie, X. Sunney. "Nonspecifically Bound Proteins Spin While Diffusing Along DNA" Nat Struct Mol Biol 16: 1224-1229 (2009).
  6. Kim, Sangjin; Broströmer, Erik, Xing, Dong; Jin, Jianshi; Chong, Shasha; Ge, Hao, Wang, Siyuan; Gu, Chan; Yang, Lijiang; Gao, Yiqin; Su, Xiao-dong; Sun, Yujie; Xie, X. Sunney. “Probing Allostery Through DNA” Science 339: 816-819 (2013).
  7. Chong, Shasha; Chen, Chongyi; Ge, Hao; Xie, X. Sunney. "Mechanism of Transcriptional Bursting in Bacteria" Cell 158: 314-326 (2014).

Gene Expression and Regulation

  1. Yu, Ji; Xiao, Jie; Ren, Xiaojia; Lao, Kaiqin; Xie, X. Sunney. "Probing Gene Expression in Live Cells, One Protein Molecule at a Time" Science 311: 1600-1603 (2006).
  2. Cai, Long; Friedman, Nir; Xie, X. Sunney. "Stochastic Protein Expression in Individual Cells at the Single Molecule Level" Nature 440: 358-362 (2006).
  3. Elf, Johan; Li, Gene-Wei; Xie, X. Sunney. "Probing Transcription Factor Dynamics at the Single-Molecule Level in a Living Cell" Science 316: 1191-1194 (2007).
  4. Choi, Paul J.; Cai, Long; Frieda, Kirsten; Xie, X. Sunney. "A Stochastic Single-Molecule Event Triggers Phenotype Switching of a Bacterial Cell" Science 322: 442-446 (2008).
  5. Taniguchi, Yuichi; Choi, Paul J.; Li, Gene-Wei; Chen, Huiyi; Babu, Mohan; Hearn, Jeremy; Emili, Andrew; Xie, X. Sunney. "Quantifying E. coli Proteome and Transcriptome with Single-Molecule Sensitivity in Single Cells" Science 329: 533-538 (2010).
  6. Chong, Shasha; Chen, Chongyi; Ge, Hao; Xie, X. Sunney. "Mechanism of Transcriptional Bursting in Bacteria" Cell 158: 314-326 (2014).
  7. Ge, Hao; Qian, Hong; and Xie, X. Sunney. "Stochastic Phenotype Transition of a Single Cell in an Intermediate Region of Gene State Switching" Phys Rev Lett 114(7) (2015).

Coherent Raman Microscopy

  1. Zumbusch, Andreas; Holtom, Gary R.; Xie, X. Sunney. “Vibrational Microscopy Using Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering" Phys Rev Lett 82: 4142-4145 (1999).
  2. Evans, Conor L.; Potma, Eric O.; Puoris'haag, Mehron; Côté, Daniel; Lin, Charles P.; Xie, X. Sunney. "Chemical imaging of tissue in vivo with video-rate coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy" Proc Nat. Aca Sci 102: 16807-16812 (2005).
  3. Freudiger, Christian W.; Min, Wei; Saar, Brian G.; Lu, Sijia; Holtom, Gary R.; He, Chengwei; Tsai, Jason C.; Kang, Jing X.; Xie, X. Sunney. "Label-Free Biomedical Imaging with High sensitivity by Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy" Science 322:1857-1860 (2008).
  4. Saar, Brian G.; Freudiger, Christian W.; Reichman, Jay; Stanley, C. Michael; Holtom, Gary R.; Xie, X. Sunney. "Video-Rate Molecular Imaging in Vivo with Stimulated Raman Scattering" Science 330: 1368-1370 (2010).
  5. Wang, Meng C.; Min, Wei; Freudiger, Christian W.; Ruvkun, Gary; Xie, X. Sunney. "RNAi Screening for Fat Regulatory Genes with SRS Microscopy" Nat Methods 8: 135-138 (2011).
  6. Ji, Minbiao; Orringer, Daniel A.; Freudiger, Christian W.; Ramkissoon, Shakti; Liu, Xiaohui; Lau, Darryl; Golby, Alexandra J.; Norton, Isaiah; Hayashi, Marika; Agar, Nathalie Y. R.; Young, Geoffrey S.; Spino, Cathie; Santagata, Sandro; Camelo-Piragua, Sandra; Ligon, Keith L.; Sagher, Oren; Xie, X. Sunney. "Rapid, Label-Free Detection of Brain Tumors with Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy" Science Translational Medicine 201: 201ra119 (2013).
  7. Fu, Dan; Zhou, Jing; Zhu, Wenjing Suzanne; Manley, Paul W.; Wang, Y. Karen; Hood, Tami; Wylie, Andrew; Xie, X. Sunney. "Imaging the Intracellular Distribution of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Living Cells with Quantitative Hyperspectral Stimulated Raman Scattering" Nat Chem 6: 614-622 (2014).

Single Cell Genomics

  1. Tan, Longzhi; Xing, Dong; Chang, Chi-Han; Li, Heng; Xie, X. Sunney "Three-dimensional genome structures of single diploid human cells," Science 43, 924-928 (2018).
  2. Zong, Chenghang; Lu, Sijia; Chapman, Alec R.; Xie, X. Sunney. "Genome-Wide Detection of Single-Nucleotide and Copy-Number Variations of a Single Human Cell" Science 338: 1622-1626 (2012).
  3. Lu, Sijia; Zong, Chenghang; Fan, Wei; Yang, Mingyu; Li, Jinsen; Chapman, Alec R.; Zhu, Ping; Hu, Xuesong; Xu, Liya; Bai, Fan; Qiao, Jie; Tang, Fuchou; Li, Ruiqiang; Xie, X. Sunney. "Probing Meiotic Recombination and Aneuploidy of Single Sperm Cells by Whole-Genome Sequencing" Science 338: 1627-1630 (2012).
  4. Hou, Yu; Fan, Wei; Yan, Liying; Li, Rong; Lian, Ying; Huang, Jin; Li, Jinsen; Xu, Liya; Tang, Fuchou; Xie, X. Sunney; Qiao, Jie. "Genome Analyses of Single Human Oocytes" Cell 155: 1492-1506 (2013).
  5. Yan, Liying; Huang, Lei; Xu, Liya; Huang, Jin; Ma, Fei; Zhu, Xiaohui; Tang, Yaqiong; Liu, Mingshan; Lian, Ying; Liu, Ping; Li, Rong; Lu, Sijia; Tang, Fuchou; Qiao, Jie; Xie, X Sunney "Live Births after Simultaneous Avoidance of Monogenic Diseases and Chromosome Abnormality by Next-generation Sequencing with Linkage Analyses," Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 112(52), 15964-15969,  (2015).
  6. Chen, Chongyi; Xing, Dong; Tan, Longzhi; Li, Heng; Zhou, Guangyu; Huang, Lei; Xie, X. Sunney "Single-cell whole-genome analyses by Linear Amplification via Transposon Insertion (LIANTI)," Science 356, 189-194 (2017).

Key Review Articles

  1. Min, Wei; Freudiger, Christian W.; Lu, Sijia; Xie, X. Sunney. "Coherent Nonlinear Optical Imaging: beyond Fluorescence Microscopy" Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 62: 507-530 (2011).
  2. Li, Gene-Wei; Xie, X. Sunney. "Central Dogma at the Single-Molecule Level in Living Cells" Nature 475: 308-315 (2011).
  3. Xie, X. Sunney. "Enzyme Kinetics, Past and Present" Science 342: 1457-1459 (2013).
  4. Xie, X. Sunney. "Single Molecules Meet Genomics: Pinpointing Precision Medicine" JAMA 20: 2021-2 (2015).
  5. Huang Lei; Ma Fei; Chapman Alec; Lu Sijia; Xie X. Sunney. “Single-Cell Whole-Genome Amplification and Sequencing” Annu. Rev. Genomics Hum. Genet. 16: 79-102 (2015).
  6. Cheng, Ji-xin; Xie, X. Sunney. “Vibrational Spectroscopic Imaging of Living Systems: An Emerging Platform for Biology and Medicine” Science 350, aaa8870 (2015).