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Haifei Shi

Biographical Information

Professor Shi is an enthusiastic teacher-mentor-scholar, has been teaching formal courses and seminars, mentoring and advising undergraduate and graduate students in research, working with undergraduate research office and summer internship programs at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú, and involving in professional societies and promoting public awareness about neuroscience discovery and science outreach with K-12 students. She has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health and American Heart Association, published peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters with her graduate and undergraduate students as co-authors, organized regional and international research symposia, is a reviewer and academic editor for a few scientific journals, and serves as an ad hoc reviewer for grant agencies.

Professor (2022 – present): Department of Biology, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University

Associate Professor (2015 – 2022): Department of Biology, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University

Assistant Professor (2009 – 2015): Department of Biology, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University

Postdoctoral Fellow (2004 – 2009): Department of Endocrinology, Metabolic Disease Research Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Education

• Ph.D. Neurobiology & Behavioral Neuroscience. Department of Biology, Georgia State University (2004).
• M.D. Clinical medicine. School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing Medical University, China (1997). (Currently known as: Peking University - Health Science Center)

Research Interests

Obesity is a major health problem exacerbating many other disorders and is a health risk in its own right. Our research focuses on the neural and hormonal control of energy metabolism, and the mechanisms of pathological conditions of obesity and related diseases including cancer. Males and females adopt fundamentally different strategies to maintain energy balance. This is an important issue for understanding and treating obesity and related disorders, which has not received enough scientific attention. The overall research goal is to investigate effects of sex hormones in the regulation of energy metabolism. Graduate and undergraduate students in my laboratory use physiological, biochemical, cellular, and molecular techniques, as well as bioinformatic analyses, in their projects.

Selected Publications

(G ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University graduate student, U ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University undergraduate student)

• Kuo HN, LaRussa Z, Xu MG, Consitt LA, Liu M, Davidson WS, Puri V, Coschigano KT, Shi H, Lo CC (2024). Attenuation of high-fat diet-induced weight gain by apolipoprotein A4. Obesity. doi: 10.1002/oby.24155.
  
• Krolick KNG, Cao J, Gulla EM U, Bhardwaj M U, Marshall SJ U, Zhou EY U, Kiss AJ, Choueiry F, Zhu J, Shi H (2024) Subregion-specific transcriptomic profiling of rat brain reveals sex-distinct gene expression impacted by adolescent stress. Neuroscience. 553:19-39. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2024.07.002.
  
• Xu M G, Kiss AJ, Jones JA, McMurray MS, Shi H (2024). Effect of oral tryptamines on the gut microbiome of rats-a preliminary study. PeerJ 12:e17517. doi: 10.7717/peerj.17517. eCollection 2024.

Courses Taught

• Human physiology (BIO 305)
  
• Endocrinology (BIO 454/554)
  
• Seminars
  
• Independent study