Haoran Xue

Professional Experience

09/2026 - present: Postdoc, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany

06/2022 - 03/2026: Postdoc, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Degrees

06/2024: Doctor of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

06/2017: Bachelor of Science, Peking University, Beijing, China

Publications

1.     Xue, H.†, Saltini, M.†, Illing, N.†, Shepherd, K., Page-Macdonald, O., Marketos, O., Robertson, C., Shankar, A., Süß, S., Kappel, C., Alseekh, S., Deinum, E. E., Ingle, R. A., Lenhard, M. Supergene control of chiral development in mirror-image flowers. In press at Science. Available on bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2025.08.29.672924v1 († equal contribution)

2.     Xue, H.*, Gong, Y., Wright, S. I.†, and Barrett, S. C. H.† (2025). The genomic basis of the tristylous floral polymorphism - evidence for a role of gene duplications in a region of restricted recombination. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 42, msaf170. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msaf170. (* corresponding author, † equal contribution)

3.     Robertson, C.†, Xue, H.†, Saltini, M.†, Fairnie, A. L. M., Lang, D., Kerstens, M. H., Willemsen, V., Ingle, R. A., Barrett, S. C. H., Deinum, E. E., Illing, N., and Lenhard, M. (2025). Spiral phyllotaxis predicts left-right asymmetric growth and style deflection in mirror-image flowers of Cyanella alba. Nature Communications, 16, 3695. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-58803-5 († equal contribution)

4.     Yang, J.†, Xue, H.†, Li, Z., Zhang, Y., Shi, T., He, X., Barrett, S. C. H., Wang, Q., and Chen, J. (2023). Haplotype-resolved genome assembly provides insights into the evolution of S-locus supergene in distylous Nymphoides indica. New Phytologist, 240, 2058-2071. doi: 10.1111/nph.19264 († equal contribution)

5.     Da Cunha, N. L., Xue, H., Wright, S. I., and Barrett, S. C. H. (2022). Genetic variation and clonal diversity in floating aquatic plants: Comparative genomic analysis of water hyacinth species in their native range. Molecular Ecology, 31, 5307-5325. doi: 10.1111/mec.16664

6.     Xue, H. Phylogenetics and its application in biodiversity conservation. (2022). In: Kumar, A., Choudhury, B., Dayanandan, S., and Khan, M. L. (Eds.), Molecular Genetics and Genomics Tools in Biodiversity Conservation. Singapore: Springer Singapore. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-6005-4

7.     Jiao, M., Xue, H., Yan, J., Zheng, Z., Wang, J., Zhao, C., Zhang, L., and Zhou, W. (2021). Tree diversity and its socioeconomic drivers in Beijing's residential areas. Ecological Indicators, 125. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107462

8.     Xue, H.†, Yamaguchi, N.†, Driscoll, C. A.†, Han, Y.†, Bar-Gal, G. K., Zhuang, Y., Mazak, J. H., Macdonald, D. W., O’Brien, S. J., and Luo, S. (2015). Genetic Ancestry of the Extinct Javan and Bali Tigers. Journal of Heredity, 2015, 106, 247-257. doi: 10.1093/jhered/esv002 († equal contribution)

9.     Xue, H.†, Shi, H.†, Yu, Z.†, He, S.†, Liu, S., Hou, Y., Pan, X., Wang, H., Zheng, P., Cui, C., Viets, H., Liang, J., Zhang, Y., Chen, S., Zhang, H. M., and Ouyang, Q. (2014). Design, Construction, and Characterization of a Set of Biosensors for Aromatic Compounds. ACS synthetic biology, 3, 1011-1014. doi: 10.1021/sb500023f († equal contribution)