Qingwei Niu

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Polina Lishko, PhD

Undergraduate university: Rutgers University-New Brunswick, 2018

Enrollment year: 2022

Research summary
Potassium ion channel structure and function in retinal pigment epithelium in age related macular degeneration. Native high resolution cryo-EM structure of cilia and flagellum in various species.

1) Potassium ion channel structure and function in retinal pigment epithelium in age related macular degeneration.
2) Native high resolution cryo-EM structure of cilia and flagellum in various species.

Graduate publications
Leung MR, Sun C, Zeng J, Anderson JR, Niu Q, Huang W, Noteborn WEM, Brown A, Zeev-Ben-Mordehai T, Zhang R. 2025 Structural diversity of axonemes across mammalian motile cilia. Nature, 637(8048):1170-77

Doran MH, Niu Q, Zeng J, Beneke T, Smith J, Ren P, Fochler S, Coscia A, Höög JL, Meleppattu S, Lishko PV, Wheeler RJ, Gluenz E, Zhang R, Brown A. 2025 Evolutionary adaptations of doublet microtubules in trypanosomatid parasites. Science, 387(6739):eadr5507. PMCID: PMC7617938

Dai J, Ma M, Niu Q, Eisert RJ, Wang X, Das P, Lechtreck KF, Dutcher SK, Zhang R, Brown A. 2024 Mastigoneme structure reveals insights into the O-linked glycosylation code of native hydroxyproline-rich helices. Cell, 187(8):1907-1921.e16. PMCID: PMC11015965