Professor Shubiao Wu
Professor (International HDR Pathways and Projects) - School of Environmental and Rural Science
Biography
Prof Shubiao Wu has interdisciplinary expertise in both animal and plant fields particularly in molecular genetics, gut microflora, necrotic enteritis and net energy. Prior to his current position at University of New England, he worked as a research fellow at University of Otago, New Zealand in inherited retinal diseases. He received his PhD in molecular mapping and reproduction of olives at The University of Adelaide in 2002. He was a visiting Research Associate at The University of Western Australia during 1998 and 1999. Before migrating to Australia, Shubiao held a research position in Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China, following completion of his MSc at Inner Mongolia University and BSc at Lanzhou University.
Shubiao has supervised over 40 PhD students and 10 postdoctoral researchers. He has published over 140 refereed papers in reputed international journals. He is the Associate Editor of Animal Nutrition, and Editorial Board Member of Veterinary Sciences, and serves as reviewers for over 40 scientific journals including Nucleic Acids Research, BMC Genomics, Animal Nutrition, and Scientific Reports. His current research interests are in the area of poultry energetics, gut microflora and health, nutrigenomics, and plant genetics and genomics. He also has collaborations with researchers in other biological areas involving molecular marker systems and transcriptomics in Australia and overseas.
