王宪辉，中国科学院动物研究所研究员，动物多样性保护与有害动物防控全国重点实验室副主任，中国科学院大学生命科学学院生态与进化生物学教研室主任，行为遗传学研究组组长，博士生导师。2004年中国科学院动物研究所获博士学位，并留所工作，2005-2007年在美国马里兰大学从事博士后研究。从事昆虫学研究 20 多年，围绕“群聚行为遗传及分子调控机制”，在蝗灾暴发机制和授粉熊蜂社会行为机制等方面，取得了国际同行认可的系统性和创新性研究成果，迄今以通讯作者或第一作者在 Nature、 Nature Communications、 Science Advances、Nature Ecology & Evolution、 eLife、 PNAS、 PLoSGenetics 等 SCI 期刊发表论文50余篇。主持中国科学院先导B项目、国家重点研发计划项目、国家自然基金重点项目、地区间国际合作项目（中以）、中国科学院科技服务网络计划等多项国家级项目。荣获 2016 年第十四届中国青年科技奖，2017 年国家自然科学二等奖（“飞蝗两型转变的分子调控机制研究”,第二完成人），2021年“中央和国家机关优秀共产党员”，2022年国家级领军人才，2023年朝阳区“凤凰计划领军人才”，国务院政府特殊津贴获得者等荣誉。担任Journal of insect physiology、CURRENT ZOOLOGY、INSECT SCIENCE编委，昆虫学报、应用昆虫学报副主编，中国植物保护学会副理事长，中国昆虫学会常务理事、中国动物学会动物行为学专业委员会常务理事、中国昆虫学会青年工作委员会主任等学术职务。

主要以重要农业经济昆虫飞蝗和授粉蜂为研究对象，围绕“社群行为遗传学”开展以下几方面工作：1. 行为基因组解析及调控机制；2. 生态衰老与干预机理；3.多肽药物研发；4.授粉蜂高效繁育。

1. 中国科学院基础与交叉前沿科研先导专项（B类先导专项）、XDB1880000、创制“种-蜂-机协同”高产杂交大豆制种技术、2026/05-2029/04、主持。
2. 国国家自然科学基金重点项目、3243000759、飞蝗群体衰老可塑的诱发机制解析、2025/01-2029/12、主持。
3. 国家重点研发计划项目、2022YFD1400500、重大蝗虫成灾机制与可持续防控技术研究、2022/09-2025/12、主持。
4. 国家自然科学基金面上项目、32270524、染色质失稳在飞蝗型相关肌肉衰老可塑中的功能分析、2023/01-2026/12、主持。
5. 国家自然科学基金重点项目、31930012、飞蝗两型能量权衡的神经内分泌调控机制、2020/01-2024/12、主持。

1. Ge ZX^#, Ge J^#, Zhu D^#, Nie X, Jocelyn G. Millar Guy Bloch & Wang XH*. 2025, The alkenes Z9-C29 and Z9-C31 function as quorum-sensing pheromones stimulating worker reproduction in the bumble bee Bombus terrestris. Nature Communications. 16(1):10770. 
2. Shi RJ, Duan P, Zhu MM, Zhang R, Zhao ZH, Nie X, He HH, Hou L* and Wang XH*. 2025, Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of the Leafcutter Bee Megachile rotundata Reveals Its Ecological Adaptation and Pollination Biology. Advanced Science. 12(23):e2417054.
3. Cui WC, Ge J, Chen DF, Nie X, Dong LS, Wang XH*, Kang L*. 2024, Dibutyl phthalate released by solitary female locusts mediates sexual communication at low density. PNAS, 121 (30) e2401926121.
4. Wu CS^#, Ge J^#*, Han B, Lan HJ, Zhou X, Ge ZX, Cui WC, Liu XF, Wang XH*. 2024, Escort: a system for rapid and long-term tracking of multiple insect objects. Insect Science, 0:1–7, DOI 10.1111/1744-7917.13407
5. Hou L*, Guo SY, Wang YY, Liu SY, Wang XH*. 2024, Neuropeptide ACP is required for fat body lipid metabolism homeostasis in locusts. Insect Science, 0: 1–13, DOI 10.1111/1744-7917.13321
6. Guo SY^#, Hou L^#, Dong LS, Nie X, Kang L*, Wang XH*. 2023, PLIN2-induced ectopic lipid accumulation promotes muscle aging in gregarious locusts. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7(6):914-926.
7. Ge J, Shalem Y, Ge ZX, Liu JP, Wang XH*, Bloch G*. 2023, Integration of information from multiple sources drives and maintains the division of labor in bumble bee colonies. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 60:101115.
8. Hou L, Wang NY, Sun TL, Wang XH*. 2023, Neuropeptide regulations on behavioral plasticity insocial insects. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 60:101119.
9. Chen DF^#, Hou L^#, Wei JN, Guo SY, Cui WC, Yang PC, Kang L*, Wang XH*. 2022, Aggregation pheromone 4-vinylanisole promotes the synchrony of sexual maturation in female locusts. eLife, 11:e74581. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.74581
10. Hou L^#, Guo SY^#, Ding D, Du BZ, Wang XH*. 2022, Neuroendocrinal and molecular basis of flight performance in locusts. Cellular and molecular life sciences, 79(6):325.  doi: 10.1007/s00018-022-04344-9.
11. Hou L, Guo SY, Wang YY, Nie X, Yang PC, Ding D, Li BB, Kang L*, Wang XH*. 2021, Neuropeptide acp facilitates lipid oxidation and utilization during long-term flight in locusts. eLife, 10: DOI: ARTN e6527910.7554/eLife.65279
12. Guo SY, Yang PC, Liang B, Zhou F, Hou L, Kang L*, Wang XH*. 2021, Aging features of the migratory locust at physiological and transcriptional levels. BMC Genomics, 22. DOI: ARTN 257 10.1186/s12864-021-07585-3
13. Ge J, Zhou X, Ge ZX, Zhu D, Nie X, Wang XH*. 2021, Phased contests allow rapid hierarchy formation in paired bumble bee workers. Animal Behaviour, 179: 125-138.
14. Zhu D, Ge J, Guo SY, Hou L, Shi RJ, Zhou X, Nie X, Wang XH*. 2021, Independent variations in genome-wide expression, alternative splicing, and DNA methylation in brain tissues among castes of the buff-tailed bumblebee, Bombus terrestris. Journal of Genetics and Genomics, 48: 681-694.（Cover story）
15. Guo XJ, Yu QQ, Chen DF, Wei JN, Yang PC, Yu J, Wang XH*, Kang L*. 2020, 4-Vinylanisole is an aggregation pheromone in locusts, Nature, 584:584–588. DOI： 10.1038/s41586-020-2610-4.
16. Guo W, Song J, Yang PC, Chen XY, Chen Df, Ren DN, Kang L*, Wang XH*. 2020, Juvenile hormone suppresses aggregation behavior through influencing antennal gene expression in locusts. PLoS Genetics, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008762.
17. Guo SY, Wang XH*, Kang L*. 2020, Special Significance of Non-Drosophila Insects in Aging, Front Cell Dev Biol, 8: 576-571, DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2020.576571.
18. Hou L, Wang XS, Yang PC, Li BB, Lin Z, Kang L*, Wang XH*. 2020, DNA methyltransferase 3 participates in behavioral phase change in the migratory locust. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 121: 103374. DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2020.103374.
19. Yang PC, Hou L, Wang XH*, Kang L*. 2020, Core transcriptional signatures of phase change in the migratory locust, Protein Cell, 11(9): 696–697. DOI: 10.1007/s13238-019-00688-4.
20. Ge J, Ge ZX, Zhu D, Wang XH*. 2020, Pheromonal Regulation of the Reproductive Division of Labor in Social Insects, Front Cell Dev Biol, 8: 837. DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2020.00837.

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