Dr. Fan Wu & Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Braun
Research Areas
Epigenetic regulation on lung pathogenesis; Metabolism and Epigenetic crosstalk on lung diseases; Cell Lineage Research on Human lung diseases
Education
2006-2011 Harbin Medical University, China, BS
2012-2014 The University of Hong Kong, China, MS
2014-2021 Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, PhD
2021-2026 Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Postdoc
Publications
Wu, F., Li, X., Looso, M., Liu, H., Ding, D., Gunther, S.,
Kuenne, C., Liu, S., Weissmann, N., Boettger, T., et al. (2023).
Spurious transcription causing innate immune responses is prevented by
5-hydroxymethylcytosine. Nat Genet 55, 100-111. 10.1038/s41588-022-01252-3.
Li, X., Wu, F., Gunther, S., Looso, M., Kuenne,
C., Zhang, T., Wiesnet, M., Klatt, S., Zukunft, S., Fleming, I., et al. (2023).
Inhibition of fatty acid oxidation enables heart regeneration in adult mice. Nature 622,
619-626. 10.1038/s41586-023-06585-5.
Wang, L., Rice, M., Swist, S., Kubin, T., Wu, F.,
Wang, S., Kraut, S., Weissmann, N., Bottger, T., Wheeler, M., et al. (2021).
BMP9 and BMP10 Act Directly on Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells for Generation and
Maintenance of the Contractile State. Circulation 143, 1394-1410.
10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.047375.
Yuan, X., Qi, H., Li, X., Wu, F., Fang, J.,
Bober, E., Dobreva, G., Zhou, Y., and Braun, T. (2017). Disruption of
spatiotemporal hypoxic signaling causes congenital heart disease in mice. J
Clin Invest 127, 2235-2248. 10.1172/JCI88725.
Conferences
Selection:
International Symposium 2017 "Chromatin Changes in Differentiation
and Malignancies" September 18- 20, 2017 Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands
–poster
Summer School on Chromatin and Metabolism, August 25-31, 2018, Spetses
Island, Greece –poster
11th TRR81 Mini-symposium on "Epigenetics &
Metabolism", November 28th, 2018, Bad Nauheim, Germany –
organizer
EMBL Conference "Chromatin and Epigenetics", May 17-20, 2021,
Virtual – poster
Cellular Heterogeneity in the Cardio-Pulmonary System Symposium,
September 2021- speaker
13th Guangzhou International Forum on Stem Cells and
Regenerative Medicine 2023 - speaker
Cold Spring Harbor Chromatin, Epigenetics & Transcription, 2026, Suzhou, China
poster - best poster prize
Collaboration
Cardio Pulmonary Institute (CPI), Germany
Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung E.V. (DZHK), Germany