Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Biological Sciences

103 Tucker Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
Phone: (573) 884-0020
xiaohu@missouri.edu

Education

Ph.D., 2006, Max Planck Institute for Development of Biology

Publications

Decker L.M., Boone E.C., Xiao H., Shanker B.S., Boone S.F., Kingston S.L., Lee S.A., Hammond T.M., and Shiu P.K.T. (2015) Complex formation of RNA silencing proteins in the perinuclear region of Neurospora crassa. Genetics, 199: 1017-1021. [abstract] [pdf]

Samarajeewa D.A., Sauls P.A., Sharp K.J., Smith Z.J., Xiao H., Groskreutz K.M., Malone T.L., Boone E.C., Edwards K.A., Shiu P.K.T., Larson E.D., and Hammond T.M. (2014) Efficient detection of unpaired DNA requires a member of the Rad54-like family of homologous recombination proteins. Genetics 198: 895-904. [abstract] [pdf]

Hammond T.M., Xiao H., Boone E.C., Decker L.M., Lee S.A., Perdue T.D., Pukkila P.J., and Shiu P.K.T. (2013) Novel proteins required for meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA and siRNA generation in Neurospora crassa. Genetics 194: 91-100. [abstract]

Hammond T.M., Rehard D.G., Xiao H., and Shiu P.K.T. (2012) Molecular dissection of theNeurospora Spore killer meiotic drive element. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109: 12093-12098. [abstract]
*Commentary: Saupe, S.J. (2012) A fungal gene reinforces Mendel’s laws by counteracting genetic cheating. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109: 11900-11901. [abstract]

Hammond T.M., Xiao H., Boone E.C., Perdue T.D., Pukkila P.J., and Shiu P.K.T. (2011) SAD-3, a putative helicase required for MSUD, interacts with other components of the silencing machinery. G3 1: 369-376. [abstract]

Hammond T.M., Xiao H., Rehard D.G., Boone E.C., Perdue T.D., Pukkila P.J., and Shiu P.K.T. (2011) Fluorescent and bimolecular-fluorescent protein tagging of genes at their native loci in Neurospora crassa using specialized double-joint PCR plasmids. Fungal Genet. Biol. 48: 866-873. [abstract]

Xiao H., Alexander W.G., Hammond T.M., Boone E.C., Perdue T.D., Pukkila P.J., and Shiu P.K.T. (2010) QIP, an exonuclease that converts duplex siRNA into single strands, is required for Meiotic Silencing by Unpaired DNA. Genetics 186: 119-126. [abstract]

Alexander W.G., Raju N.B., Xiao H., Hammond T.M., Perdue T.D., Metzenberg R.L., Pukkila P.J., and Shiu P.K.T. (2008) DCL-1 colocalizes with other components of the MSUD machinery and is required for silencing. Fungal Genet. Biol. 45: 719-727. Cover article. [abstract]