2013.03-2021.07　Post-doctor, Department of Tissue Morphogenesis in Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine and Universitaetsklinikum Muenster, Muenster, Germany

2007.09-2013.02　Ph.D, Institute of Neuroscience (ION), Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China

2003.09-2007.07　B.S. Biology, East China University of Science and Technology(ECUST), Shanghai, China

(1) Vascular microenvironment for stem cell and tissue regeneration

(2) Interaction of hematopoietic stem cell and bone marrow microenvironment

2019 Prize for poster in 7th German stem cell network annual meeting

2016 Chair Travel Award for the 2016 Gordon Research Conference on Endothelial Cell Phenotypes in Health and Disease

2012 Prize for poster in 7th International Kloster Seeon“angiogenesis” meeting (Rank First)

2011 Prize for poster in 7th European Zebrafish Meeting (Rank “Runner up”)

2010 Prize for oral presentation in annual retreat of ION (Rank Second)

2009 Prize of Olympus confocal imaging competition (Rank First)

2006 “ECUST-BASF (BadischeAnilin- und Soda-Fabrik)” joint scholarship Oral presentation in international meeting

2018 Oral presentation in Gordon Research Conference on Endothelial Cell Phenotypes in Health and Disease

2018 Oral presentation in EMBL Conference: Hematopoietic Stem cells: From the Embryo to the Aging Organism

2015 Oral presentation in 8th International Congress on Industrial and applied mathematics (Symposium: blood flow and blood vessel systems)

2015 Oral presentation in 6th cardiac regeneration and vascular biology

2015 Oral presentation in 13th Dutch German joint meeting of the molecular cardiology

2012 Oral presentation in 7th International Kloster Seeon “angiogenesis” meeting.

(1) Yang Liu#, Qi Chen#, Hyun-Woo Jeong, Dong Han, J?rg Fabian, Hannes Drexler, Martin Stehling, Hans R.Sch?ler, Ralf H.Adams. Dopamine signaling regulates hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell function. Blood (2021，In Press) #Equal contribution

(2) Qi Chen#, Yang Liu#, Hyun-Woo Jeong, Martin Stehling, Van Vuong Dinh, Bin Zhou, Ralf H. Adams. Apelin+ endothelial niche cells control hematopoiesis and mediate vascular regeneration after myeloablative injury. (2019) Cell Stem Cell Dec 5;25(6):768-783.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2019.10.006. #Equal contribution Highlight in Stem Cell: Mutualism in the Marrow 2019 Dec 5;25(6):731-733. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2019.11.007.

(3) Qi Chen, Hui Zhang, Yang Liu, Dagmar Zeuschner, Monica Corada, Elisabetta Dejana, Bin Zhou and Ralf H. Adams. Endothelial cells are progenitors of cardiac pericytes and vascular smooth muscle cells. (2016) Nature Communications. 7:12422 doi: 10.1038/ncomms12422.

(4) Qi Chen#, Luan Jiang#, Chun Li, Dan Hu, Ji-Wen Bu, Cai David, Jiu-linDu. Haemodynamics- Driven Developmental Pruning of Brain Vasculature in Zebrafish. (2012) PLoS Biology 10(8): e1001374. #Equal contribution Highlight in Neurodevelopment: Low flow blood vessel pruning. Nature (2012) 488(7413): 560. Highlight in Sedwick C (2012) Pruning Brain Vasculature for Efficiency. PLoS Biol 10(8): e1001375

(5) Ting-ting Liu, Xu-fei Du, Bai-bing Zhang, Hua-xing Zi, Yong Yan, Jiang-an Yin, Han Hou, Shan- ye Gu, Qi Chen, Jiu-Lin Du. Piezo1-mediated Ca2+ activities regulate brain vascular pathfinding during development. (2020) Neuron doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2020.07.025

(6) Yang Liu, Xiao-Hui Xu, Qi Chen, Tong Wang, Cai-Yun Deng, Bao-Liang Song, Jiu-Lin Du, Zhen- Ge Luo. Myosin Vb controls biogenesis of post-Golgi Rab10 carriers during axon development. (2013) Nature Communications. doi:10.1038/ncomms3005

(7) Yu Zhang, Bing Xu, Qi Chen, Yong Yan, Jiu-lin Du, Xufei Du. Apoptosis of Endothelial Cells Contributes to Brain Vessel Pruning of Zebrafish During Development. (2018) Front. Mol. Neurosci. 11:222. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2018.00222