Research Interests
1. High resolution and sensitivity analytical methods
2. Novelanalytical method and techniquesfor metabolomics/metabonomics
3. Plant metabolomics
Main research funds
1. Natural Science Foundation of China, Project number21375127, “Development of a novel 'pseudo' targeted LC-MS metabolic profilingmethod and its application in prostatic cancer”2014/01-2017/12
2. Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Project number 2012CB518303,“Omics features and the key targets in Chinese human prostate cancer”, 2012/01-2016/08
1. "Pseudotargeted Metabolomics Method and Its Application in Serum Biomarker Discovery for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Based on Ultra High-Performance Liquid Chromatography/Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry", Chen, S.; H. Kong; X. Lu; Y. Li; P. Yin; Z. Zeng; G. Xu, Anal. Chem. 85 (17), 8326-8333(2013)
2. "Investigation of the Relationship between the Metabolic Profile of Tobacco Leaves in Different Planting Regions and Climate Factors Using a Pseudotargeted Method Based on Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry", Zhao, Y.; C. Zhao; X. Lu; H. Zhou; Y. Li; J. Zhou; Y. Chang; J. Zhang; L. Jin; F. Lin; G. Xu, J. Proteome Res. 12 (11), 5072-5083(2013)
3. "Analysis of free amino acids in flue-cured tobacco leaves using ultra-high performance liquid chromatography with single quadrupole mass spectrometry", Zhang, J.; C. Zhao; Y. Chang; Y. Zhao; Q. Li; X. Lu; G. Xu, J. Sep. Sci. 36 (17), 2868-2877(2013)
4. "Alteration of Leaf Metabolism in Bt-Transgenic Rice (Oryza sativa L.) and Its Wild Type under Insecticide Stress", Zhou, J.; L. Zhang; Y. Chang; X. Lu; Z. Zhu; G. Xu, J. Proteome Res. 11 (8), 4351-4360(2012)
5. "Analysis of Urinary Metabolic Signatures of Early Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence after Surgical Removal Using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry", Ye, G.; B. Zhu; Z. Yao; P. Yin; X. Lu; H. Kong; F. Fan; B. Jiao; G. Xu, J. Proteome Res. 11 (8), 4361-4372(2012)
6. "A novel approach to transforming a non-targeted metabolic profiling method to a pseudo-targeted method using the retention time locking gas chromatography/mass spectrometry-selected ions monitoring", Li, Y.; Q. Ruan; Y. Li; G. Ye; X. Lu; X. Lin; G. Xu, J. Chromatogr. A 1255, 228-236(2012)
7. "Serum 27-nor-5 beta-Cholestane-3,7,12,24,25 PentolGlucuronide Discovered by Metabolomics as Potential Diagnostic Biomarker for Epithelium Ovarian Cancer", Chen, J.; X. Zhang; R. Cao; X. Lu; S. Zhao; A. Fekete; Q. Huang; P. Schmitt-Kopplin; Y. Wang; Z. Xu; X. Wan; X. Wu; N. Zhao; C. Xu; G. Xu, J. Proteome Res. 10 (5), 2625-2632(2011)
8. "Accelerated solvent extraction for GC-based tobacco fingerprinting and its comparison with simultaneous distillation and extraction", Li, Y.; T. Pang; Z. Guo; Y. Li; X. Wang; J. Deng; K. Zhong; X. Lu; G. Xu, Talanta 81 (1-2), 650-656(2010)
9. "Application of Fuzzy c-Means Clustering in Data Analysis of Metabolomics", Li, X.; X. Lu; J. Tian; P. Gao; H. W. Kong; G. W. Xu, Anal. Chem. 81 (11), 4468-4475(2009)