Professor
University of Maryland College Park
Rockville, Maryland
Shunyuan Xiao is a professor in the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) and the Department of Plant Sciences and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland College Park. He received his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Plant Genetics from Huazhong Agricultural University, China. After postdoctoral research at University of Florida, USA and University East Anglia, UK, he established his own laboratory at the University of Maryland in 2003. Dr. Xiao’s research interest is focused on elucidating the molecular mechanisms of plant resistance against haustorium-forming fungal pathogens and more recently non-host resistance against non-adapted fungal pathogens.