PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: Chen Xuemei
Gender: female
Title: Professor of Research
CONTACT INFORMATION
Email: chenxuemei@cqmu.edu.cn
Address: No.1 Yixueyuan Rd, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, P. R. China
Phone: +86-13883229815
EDUCATION EXPERIENCE
1993.9-1996.6, Junior college, Clinic medicine, Chongqing Medical University
2004.9-2009.6, PhD, Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics, Chongqing Medical University
WORKING EXPERIENCE
1996.9-2004.12, Genetic and Eugenics Teaching and Research office, Department of Reproductive Medicine, Chongqing Medical University
2005.1-2016.11, Genetic and Eugenics Teaching and Research office, Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, School of Public Health and Management, Chongqing Medical University
2016.12-present, Toxicology and Hygiene Teaching and Research office, Joint International Research Laboratory of Reproduction & Development, School of Public Health, Chongqing Medical University
2015.10-2016.10, Visiting Scholar, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Professor Chen is an academic researcher in the Ministry of Education’s “Joint International Research Laboratory of Reproduction & Development” project. She is a supervisor for master students and has long been engaged in teaching, researching, and laboratory management. Professor Chen’s researches mainly focus on the impact and toxic mechanisms of environmental pollutants on reproductive and developmental processes, particularly early embryo implantation, endometrial decidualization, and placental development during early pregnancy. As the principal investigator, she has led in total five projects, among which two were funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, two by the Chongqing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, and one by the Ministry of Education’s Doctoral Program. She has also participated in dozens of national and provincial-level research projects and has been selected as a member of the Future Medical Research Innovation Team at Chongqing Medical University. As the first or corresponding author, she has published multiple SCI papers in internationally renowned journals such as Science of the Total Environment, Environmental Pollution, Human Reproduction, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, etc. Additionally, Professor Chen also serves as a peer reviewer for multiple international SCI journals, including the Journal of Pineal Research and Science of the Total Environment.
PUBLICATIONS
1. Hanting Xu, Ting Yi, Min Liu, Rufei Gao, Xueqing Liu, Junlin He, Yubin Ding, Yanqing Geng, Xinyi Mu, Yingxiong Wang, Xuemei Chen*. Exposure to Benzo(a)pyrene promotes proliferation and inhibits differentiation of stromal cells in mice during decidualization. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2023, 251: 114531
2. Jie Yang, Hanting Xu, Rufei Gao, Xueqing Liu, Junlin He, Meilin Zhou, Yubin Ding, Fangfang Li, Yanqing Geng, Xinyi Mu, Taihang Liu, Yingxiong Wang, Xuemei Chen*. Exposure to Benzo(a)pyrene damages mitochondrial function via suppressing mitochondrial melatonin receptors in ovarian corpus luteum during early pregnancy. Chem Biol Interact. 2022, 365:110085
3. Nanyan Li, Hanting Xu, Xueqing Liu, Rufei Gao, Junlin He, Yubin Ding, Fangfang Li, Yanqing Geng, Xinyi Mu, Xuemei Chen*. Exposure to benzo(a)pyrene suppresses mitophagy via ANT1-PINK1-Parkin pathway in ovarian corpus luteum during early pregnancy. Science of the Total Environment. 2022, 814: 152759.
4. Hanting Xu, Xinyi Mu, Yubin Ding, Qiman Tan, Xueqing Liu, Junlin He, Rufei Gao, Nanyan Li, Yanqing Geng, Yingxiong Wang*, Xuemei Chen*. Melatonin alleviates benzo(a)pyrene-induced ovarian corpus luteum dysfunction by suppressing excessive oxidative stress and apoptosis. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety.2021, 207: 111561.
5. Min Liu, Ting Deng, Junlin He, Yubin Ding , Xueqing Liu, Hanting Xu, Rufei Gao, Xinyi Mu, Yanqing Geng, Taihang Liu, Yingxiong Wang, Xuemei Chen*. Exposure to Benzo[a]pyrene impairs the corpus luteum vascular network in rats during early pregnancy. Environmental Pollution 2020; 259: 113915.
