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Dr. Tao Xu is an outstanding biophysicist on membrane trafficking and super-resolution microscopy. He has mainly focused on two aspects: one is to identify key proteins and molecular regulatory mechanisms involved in the docking, priming and fusion of different secretory vesicles such as DCVs and GSVs dense core vesicles (DCVs) and GLUT4 storage vesicles (GSVs). The other is to develop new probes, algorithms and innovative instruments represented by cryosuperresolution correlative light microscopy and electron microscopy (csCLEM) system. In 2017 he was elected as Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences because of his academic contributions. Dr. Xu received his Bachelor’s degree of Automation Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China) in 1992, and obtained his Ph. D. degree of Biomedical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1997. From 1997 to 1999, he did his post-doctoral training in Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany. Then from 1999 to 2000 he worked as senior fellow in Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, USA. In 2000 he became a professor and director of Institute of Biophysics and Biochemistry of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. In 2003 he moved to Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a professor and served as deputy director there. From 2007 to 2017 he had been the director of Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.