于晓，教授，博士生导师，农业微生物资源发掘与利用全国重点实验室和湖北省洪山实验室固定研究员，入选“国家海外高层次引进人才”。2008年本科毕业于华中农业大学植物保护系，获农学学士学位，2013年在华中农业大学植物病理系，获得农学博士学位，2013-2019年在美国德州农工大学植物病理学和微生物学系先后任博士后和助理研究科学家，2020年起受聘为华中农业大学教授。实验室研究领域为植物与微生物互作，主要研究方向为植物先天免疫信号途径及植物自我免疫和细胞死亡机制；植物与内生菌识别与互作机制；内生真菌诱导植物系统免疫的机制以及抗病遗传改良应用。相关研究成果发表在Cell、 New Phytologist、Current Biology、PNAS和Cell Reports等权国际权威期刊杂志，并在Annual Review of Phytopathology撰写了植物先天免疫反应研究进展的综述文章。

部分发表文章：

1.      Xiao Yu, Yingpeng Xie, Dexian Luo, Hai Liu, Marcos V V de Oliveira, Peipei Qi, Sung-Il Kim, Fausto Andres Ortiz-Morea, Jun Liu, Yafei Chen, Sixue Chen, Bárbara Rodrigues, Bo Li, Shaowu Xue, Ping He*, Libo Shan* (2023) A phospho-switch constrains BTL2-mediated phytocytokine signaling in plant immunity. Cell, 186(11):2329-2344.e20. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.04.027.

2.      Ying Wang, Meng Tang, Ying Zhang, Mengling Huang, Lan Wei, Yang Lin, Jiatao Xie, Jiasen Cheng, Yanping Fu, Daohong Jiang, Bo Li, Xiao Yu* (2023) Coordinated regulation of plant defense and autoimmunity by paired trihelix transcription factors ASR3/AITF1 in Arabidopsis. New Phytol, 2023 Feb;237(3):914-929. doi: 10.1111/nph.18562.

3.      Xiao Yu^#, Guangyuan Xu^#, Bo Li, Luciano de Souza Vespoli, Hai Liu, Wolfgang Moeder, Sixue Chen, Marcos V.V. de Oliveira, Suzane Ariadina de Souza, Wenyong Shao, Barbara Rodrigues, Yi Ma, Shweta Chhajed, Shaowu Xue, Gerald A. Berkowitz, Keiko Yoshioka, Ping He* and Libo Shan* (2019)  The receptor kinases BAK1/SERK4 regulate Ca²⁺ channel homeostasis in controlling plant cell death. Current Biology, 29 (22): 3778-3790.

4.      Xiao Yu, Bo Li, Geng-Jen Jang, Shan Jiang, Daohong Jiang, Jyan-Chyun Jang, Shu-Hsing Wu, Libo Shan and Ping He* (2019) Orchestration of Processing body dynamics and mRNA decay in Arabidopsis immunity. Cell Reports. 28:2194–2205.

5.      Xiao Yu, Baomin Feng, Ping He and Libo Shan* (2017) From Chaos to Harmony: Responses and Signaling upon Microbial Pattern Recognition. Annu Rev Phytopathol. 55:109-137.

6.      Xiao Yu^#, Bo Li^#, Yanping Fu, Jiatao Xie, Jiasen Cheng, Said A. Ghabrial, Guoqing Li, Xianhong Yi and Daohong Jiang* (2013) Extracellular transmission of a DNA mycovirus and its use as a natural fungicide. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 110(4): 1452-1457

7.      Xiao Yu^#, Bo Li^#, Yanping Fu, Daohong Jiang*, Said A. Ghabrial, Guoqing Li, Youliang Peng, Jiatao Xie, Jiasen Cheng, Junbin Huang, and Xianhong Yi（2010）A geminivirus-related DNA mycovirus that confers hypovirulence to a plant pathogenic fungus. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA.107:8387-8392.