范潇课题组将立足于多学科交叉领域，发挥技术优势，开发新型冷冻电镜成像技术及高效样品制备与数据处理方法，构建针对天然膜体系的膜蛋白原位结构与功能解析平台。并将依托该平台开展复杂生物膜环境的高效原位研究，通过多维度解析关键大分子的空间构型、相互作用网络及跨尺度组织模式，深入探索生物膜系统间的耦合与调控机制，为相关疾病干预提供理论基础。

范潇博士长期致力于融合多学科前沿技术方法，以推动冷冻电镜技术创新，并聚焦于重大疾病相关膜蛋白-药物分子相互作用机制的结构生物学研究。通过自主研发的冷冻电镜全流程创新技术体系，克服了该领域长期存在的技术瓶颈，成功实现了超小分子量蛋白及近生理状态下膜蛋白的高分辨率结构解析，并揭示了电压门控钠离子/钙离子通道的结构与药理作用机制等一系列重要发现。

人类前沿科学计划（HFSP）博士后基金奖

* Equal contributions# Corresponding author

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2. Zi Yang*, Xiao Fan*, and Hongwei Wang# (2025). Near-atomic resolution single-particle 3D reconstruction using a single Cryo-EM micrograph. Journal of Chinese Electron Microscopy Society, 44 (1): 1000-6281

3. Jian Huang*, Xiao Fan*, Xueqin Jin, Chen Lyu, Qinmeng Guo, Tao Liu, Jiaofeng Chen, Amaël Davakan, Philippe Lory, and Nieng Yan# (2024). Structural basis for human Cav3.2 inhibition by selective antagonists. Cell Research, 0:1–11.

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5. Kristina Solorio-Kirpichyan, Xiao Fan*, Dmitrij Golovenko*, Andrei A. Korostelev, Nieng Yan, and Alexei Korennykh# (2024). Cryo-EM structure of histidyl-tRNA synthetase-like domain reveals activating crossed helices at the core of GCN2. PNAS nexus 3, no. 12: pgae528.

6. Xiao Fan*#, Jian Huang*, Xueqin Jin and Nieng Yan# (2023). Cryo-EM structure of human voltage-gated sodium channel Nav1.6. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(5), e2220578120.

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9. Jian Huang*, Xiao Fan*, Xueqin Jin, Sooyeon Jo, Hanxiong Bear Zhang, Akie Fujita, Bruce P. Bean#, and Nieng Yan# (2023). Cannabidiol inhibits Nav channels through two distinct binding sites. Nature Communications, 14(1), 3613.

10. Shuai Gao, Xia Yao, Jiaofeng Chen, Gaoxingyu Huang, Xiao Fan, Lingfeng Xue, Zhangqiang Li, Tong Wu, Yupeng Zheng, Jian Huang, Xueqin Jin, Yan Wang, Zhifei Wang, Yong Yu, Lei Liu, Xiaojing Pan, Chen Song and Nieng Yan. (2023). Structural basis for human Cav1.2 inhibition by multiple drugs and the neurotoxin calciseptine. Cell, 186(24), 5363-5374.

11. Peng Huang, Raminta Venskutonytė, Rashmi B. Prasad, Hamidreza Ardalani, Sofia W. de Maré, Xiao Fan, Ping Li, Peter Spégel, Nieng Yan, Pontus Gourdon, Isabella Artner and Karin Lindkvist-Petersson (2023). Cryo-EM structure supports a role of AQP7 as a junction protein. Nature Communications, 14(1), 600.

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14. Jiemin Shen*, Miaohui Hu*, Xiao Fan*#, Zhenning Ren, Corinne Portioli, Xiuwen Yan, Mingqiang Rong, Ming Zhou# (2022). Extracellular domain of PepT1 interacts with TM1 to facilitate substrate transport. Structure, 7(30): 1035-1041.e3.

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17. Yimo Han*, Xiao Fan*, Haozhe Wang, Fang Zhao, Christopher Tully, Jing Kong, Nan Yao and Nieng Yan# (2020). High-yield monolayer graphene grids for near-atomic resolution cryoelectron microscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117, 1009-1014.

18. Yaping Pan, Zhenning Ren, Shuai Gao, Jiemin Shen, Lie Wang, Zhichun Xu, Ye Yu, Preetham Bachina, Hanzhi Zhang, Xiao Fan, Arthur Laganowsky, Nieng Yan & Ming Zhou (2020). Structural basis of ion transport and inhibition in ferroportin. Nature Communications 11(1), 1-11.

19. Xiao Fan*, Jia Wang*, Xing Zhang, Zi Yang, Jin-Can Zhang, Lingyun Zhao, Hai-Lin Peng, Jianlin Lei#, and Hong-Wei Wang# (2019). Single particle cryo-EM reconstruction of 52 kDa streptavidin at 3.2 Angstrom resolution. Nature Communications 10, 2386.

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课题组正在招聘副研究员/助理研究员、博士后、研究助理。