Educational experience：

1985, BSc, Aquaculture, Ocean university of China 1989, MSc, Fishery, Hokkaido University, Japan 1992, PhD. Fishery, Hokkaido University, Japan

Statement：

My research interests currently focus on exploring the following 2 questions: 1 Why fresh water turtles have so high stress tolerance capability? 2 What is the role of maternal effect in evolution (with rotifers as model animals)?

Selected Publication：

1. Wen-yi Zhang, Hui Jia, Cui-juan Niu* , Xu-tong Chen, Kenneth B. Storey (2019)  Effect of      exogenous hydrogen peroxide on ROS balance and antioxidant response in Chinese soft-shelled turtle Pelodiscus sinensis.  Aquaculture 501: 293–303.

2. Wen-yi Zhang, Cui-juan Niu* , Bo-jian Chen, Kenneth B. Storey (2018)  Digital gene expression Profiling reveals transcriptional responses to acute cold stress in Chinese soft-shelled turtle Pelodiscus sinensis juveniles. Cryobiology 81:43-56.

3.  Xiao-xuan Li and Cui-juan Niu*(2018) Maternal Effects Via Resting eggs in predator defense of the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus. Zoological Science 35: 49-56.

4. Wen-yi Zhang, Cui-juan Niu* , Bo-jian Chen, Lin Yuan (2017) Antioxidant responses in hibernating Chinese soft-shelled turtle Pelodiscus sinensis hatchlings. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A 204: 9–16.

5.  Wei Wang , Hua Zhu,Ying Dong, Zhao-hui Tian,Tian Dong, Hong-xia Hu , Cui-juan Niu* (2017)  Dimorphic expression of sex-related genes in different gonadal development stages of sterlet, Acipenser ruthenus, a primitive fish species. Fish Physiol Biochem 43:1557–1569.