Education

Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Physiology, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 2011

Current Position

He is a postdoctoral fellow in Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Stanford University. His research focuses on phagocytes-mediated tumor immunosurveillance.

Publication

1. Leitch, S.*, Feng, M.*, Muend, S., Braiterman, L. T., Hubbard, A. L. and Rao, R. (2011). Vesicular distribution of Secretory Pathway Ca²⁺-ATPase isoform 1 and a role in manganese detoxification in liver-derived polarized cells. Biometals 24(1): 159-170. (*equal contribution)
2. Feng, M., Grice, D. M., Faddy, H. M., Nguyen, N., Leitch, S., Wang, Y., Muend, S., Kenny, P. A., Sukumar, S., Roberts-Thomson, S. J., Monteith, G. R. and Rao, R. (2010). Store-independent activation of Orai1 by SPCA2 in mammary tumors. Cell 143(1): 84-98.
3. Wang, X., Ye, L., McKinney, C. C., Feng, M. and Maloney, P. C. (2008). Cysteine Scanning Mutagenesis of TM5 Reveals Conformational Changes in OxlT, the Oxalate Transporter of Oxalobacter formigenes. Biochemistry 47(21): 5709-5717.
4. Faddy, H. M., Smart, C. E., Xu, R., Lee, G. Y., Kenny, P. A., Feng, M., Rao, R., Brown, M. A., Bissell, M. J., Roberts-Thomson, S. J. and Monteith, G. R. (2008). Localization of plasma membrane and secretory calcium pumps in the mammary gland. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 369(3): 977-981.
5. Xiang, M., Feng, M., Muend, S. and Rao, R. (2007). A human Na⁺/H⁺ antiporter sharing evolutionary origins with bacterial NhaA may be a candidate gene for essential hypertension. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(47): 18677-18681.
6. Liu, Y., Ding, X., Wang, D., Deng, H., Feng, M., Wang, M., Yu, X., Jiang, K., Ward, T., Aikhionbare, F., Guo, Z., Forte, J. G. and Yao, X. (2007). A mechanism of Munc18b-syntaxin 3-SNAP25 complex assembly in regulated epithelial secretion. FEBS Lett 581(22): 4318-4324.