教育及工作经历:
2013.09-2019.12 华中师范大学生命科学学院 博士
2019.12-2020.9 加拿大魁北克大学蒙特利尔分校 生物系 访问学者
2020.3-2023.3 华中师范大学生命科学学院 博士后
2023.3-至今 华中师范大学生命科学学院 副研究员
承担的主要科研项目：
1.国家自然科学基金面上项目，32470408，2025-2028，主持，在研。
2.国家自然科学基金重点项目，32430005，2025-2028，骨干成员，在研。
3.华中师范大学引进人才科研启动专项，2023-2028，主持，在研。
4.国家自然科学基金青年项目，32100205，2022-2024，主持，结题。
5.中国博士后科学基金面上资助，2020M682457，2020-2023，主持，结题。
6.湖北省博士后创新岗位资助，25257861，2020-2023，主持，结题。
7.国家自然科学基金重大研究计划，92051105，2021-2023，骨干成员，结题。
主要研究方向：
1. 蓝细菌与复杂环境互作的信号转导机制。
2. 蓝细菌适应极端环境的光合生物发生与修复机制。
3. 以荒漠蓝细菌为底盘细胞的合成生物学。
代表性论文:
1. Xu HF, Dai GZ, Li RH, Bai Y, Zuo AW, Zhao L, Cui SR, Shang JL, Cheng C, Wang YJ, Feng GF, Duanmu DQ, Kaplan A, Qiu BS. (2025) Red-light signaling pathway activates desert cyanobacteria to prepare for desiccation tolerance. PNAS, 122: e2502034122
2. Xu HF, Yu C, Bai Y, Zuo AW, Ye YT, Liu YR, Li ZK, Dai GZ, Chen M, Qiu BS. (2024) Red-light-dependent chlorophyll synthesis kindles photosynthetic recovery of chlorotic dormant cyanobacteria using a dark-operative enzyme. Current Biology, 34: 4424-4435
3. Xu HF, Dai GZ, Bai Y, Ye DM, Shang JL, Zheng B, Shi H, Kaplan A, Qiu BS. (2022) Coevolution of tandemly repeated hlips and RpaB-like transcriptional factor confers desiccation tolerance to subaerial Nostoc species. PNAS, 119: e2211244119
4. Xu HF, Raanan H, Dai GZ, Oren N, Berkowicz S, Murik O, Kaplan A, Qiu BS. (2021) Reading and surviving the harsh conditions in desert biological soil crust: The cyanobacterial viewpoint, FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 45, fuab036
5. Xu HF, Dai GZ, Ye DM, Shang JL, Song WY, Shi HZ, Qiu BS (2020) Dehydration induced DnaK2 chaperone is involved in PSII repair of desiccation-tolerant cyanobacteria. Plant Physiology, 182: 1991-2005
6. Dai GZ, Song WY, Xu HF (并列第一作者), Tu M, Yu C, Li ZK, Shang JL, Jin CL, Ding CS, Zuo LZ, Liu YR, Zang SS, Liu K, Zhang Z, Bock R, Qiu BS (2024) Hypothetical chloroplast reading frame 51 encodes a photosystem I assembly factor in cyanobacteria. The Plant Cell, 36:1844-1867
7. Xu HF, Dai GZ, Wang YJ, Cheng C, Shang JL, Li RH, Liu K, Duanmu D, Qiu BS (2022) Expansion of bilin-based red light sensors in the subaerial desert cyanobacterium Nostoc flagelliforme. Environmental Microbiology, 24: 2047-2058
8. Xu HF, Dai GZ, Qiu BS (2019) Weak red light plays an important role in awakening the photosynthetic machinery following desiccation in the subaerial cyanobacterium Nostoc flagelliforme. Environmental Microbiology, 21: 2261-2272
9. Yu C, Xu HF, Liu YR, Yan WW, Kong XL, Zhang CC, Dai GZ, Qiu BS. (2025) The transcription factor RppA regulates chlorophyll and carotenoid biosynthesis to improve photoprotection in cyanobacteria, Plant Physiology, 197: kiae502
10. Huang D, Wei T, Chen M, Chen SJ, Wu JY, Zhang LD, Xu HF, Dai GZ, Zhang ZC, Qiu BS. (2025) Far-red light-driven photoautotrophy of chlorophyll f-producing cyanobacterium without red-shifted phycobilisome core complex. Photosynthesis Research, 163: 22
11. Du J, Izquierdo D, Xu HF, Beisner B, Lavaud J, Ohlund L, Sleno L, Juneau P (2023) Responses to herbicides of Arctic and temperate microalgae grown under different light intensities. Environmental Pollution, 333: 121985
12. Shang JL, Zhang ZC, Yin XY, Chen M, Hao FH, Wang K, Feng JL, Xu HF, Ying YC, Tang HR, Qiu BS (2018) UV-B induced biosynthesis of a novel sunscreen compound in solar radiation and desiccation tolerant cyanobacteria. Environmental Microbiology, 20: 200-213
学术兼职：
中国微生物学会会员、中国海洋湖沼学会藻类学分会会员，担任Environmental Microbiology、Microbiology-SGM、Plant Signaling & Behavior等杂志审稿人。