2000—2004，理学学士。华中农业大学，生命科学与技术学院，生物技术（本硕连读）专业/Huazhong Agricultural University, Bachelor's Degree；
2003—2009，理学博士。华中农业大学，生命科学与技术学院，作物遗传改良国家重点实验室，生化与分子生物学专业/Huazhong Agricultural University, PhD.

2010—2014，博士后，加州大学伯克利分校，植物与微生物学系/Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Postdoctoral Researcher.
2015—今，研究员，博士生导师，武汉大学生命科学学院/College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Professor.

武汉大学人才引进启动费，2015-2017；
国家自然科学基金面上项目，2016-2019

代表性论文:
1. Xin Hou, Kabin Xie, Jialing Yao, Zhuyun Qi, and Lizhong Xiong*. A homolog of human ski-interacting protein in rice positively regulates cell viability and stress tolerance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2009, 106: 6410-6415.

2. Xin Hou, Aigen Fu, Veder Garcia, Bob B. Buchanan*, and Sheng Luan*. PSB27: a thylakoid protein enabling Arabidopsis to adapt to changing light intensity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015, 112: 1613-1618.

3. Xipeng Ding#, Xin Hou#, Kabin Xie, and Lizhong Xiong*. Genome-wide dentification of BURP domain–containing genes in rice reveals a gene family with diverse structures and responses to abiotic stresses. Planta, 2009, 230: 149-163. (# co-first author).

4. Yufen Che, Aigen Fu, Xin Hou, Bob B. Buchanan*, and Sheng Luan*. Arabidopsis D1 C-terminal peptidase is essential for photosystem II assembly and function. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2013, 110:16247-52.

5. Kabin Xie, Jianqiang Shen, Xin Hou, Jialing Yao, Xianghua Li, Jinhua Xiao, and Lizhong Xiong*. Gradual increase of miR156 regulates temporal expression changes of numerous genes during leaf development in rice. Plant Physiol. 2012, 158:1382-94.

6. Yujie Fang, Kabin Xie, Xin Hou, Honghong Hu, Lizhong Xiong*. Systematic analysis of GT factor family of rice reveals a novel subfamily involved in stress responses. Mol Genet Genomics, 2010, 283: 157-169.

7. Yan Xu, Wei Zong, Xin Hou, Jialing Yao, Hongbo Liu, Xianghua Li, Yunde Zhao, and Lizhong Xiong*. OsARID3, An AT-rich Interaction Domain-containing Protein Is Required for Shoot Meristem Development in Rice. Plant Journal, 2015, 83: 806-817.