Areas of Focus
- Molecular Virology
- Gene Regulation and Epigenetics
Work Experience
- 2007-07 to Present - Wistar Institute - Associate Professor
- 2003-01 to Present - University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - Adjunct Professor
- 2000-07 to 2007-07 - Wistar Institute - Assistant Professor
- 1995-07 to 2000-07 - University of California, Berkeley - Postdoctoral Researcher
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1989-09 to 1995-07 Ph.D.: University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
- 1986-09 to 1989-07 Graduate: Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 1982-09 to 1986-07 Bachelor's Degree: Fudan University
Publications
- Chromatin Insulator and the Promoter Targeting Sequence modulate the timing of long-range enhancer-promoter interactions in the Drosophila embryo, Jumin Zhou, 2010
- Genome wide ChIP-chip analyses of dCTCF reveal important roles for insulator proteins in Drosophila genome organization, Jumin Zhou, 2009
- The Promoter Targeting Sequence mediates enhancer interference in the Drosophila embryos, Jumin Zhou, 2007
- A boundary exists in the LAT HSV-1 genome to separate latent and lytic specific genes, Jumin Zhou, 2007
- Multiple Promoter Targeting Sequences exist in Abdominal-B to regulate long-range gene activation, Jumin Zhou, 2005
- CTCF is conserved from Drosophila to humans and confers enhancer blocking of the Fab-8 insulator, Jumin Zhou, 2005
- The Promoter Targeting Sequence mediates epigenetically heritable transcription memory, Jumin Zhou, 2004
- Good fences make good neighbors: barrier elements and genomic regulation, Jumin Zhou, 2004
- The promoter targeting sequence facilitates and restricts a distant enhancer to a single promoter in the Drosophila embryo, Jumin Zhou, 2003
- Characterization of the transvection mediating region of the Abdominal-B locus in Drosophila, Jumin Zhou, 1999
- A novel cis-regulatory element, the PTS, mediates an anti-insulator activity in the Drosophila embryo, Jumin Zhou, 1999
- TAFII mutations disrupt Dorsal activation in the Drosophila embryo, Jumin Zhou, 1998
- The regulation of enhancer-promoter interactions in the Drosophila embryo, Jumin Zhou, 1997
- The Fab-7 element of the bithorax complex attenuates enhancer-promoter interactions in the Drosophila embryo, Jumin Zhou, 1996
- PICK1: a perinuclear binding protein and substrate for protein kinase C isolated by the yeast two-hybrid system, Jumin Zhou, 1995
- The gap protein knirps mediates both quenching and direct repression in the Drosophila embryo, Jumin Zhou, 1995
- Dimerization through the Helix-loop-helix motif enhances phosphorylation of the transcription activation domains of myogenin, Jumin Zhou, 1994
- FGF inactivates myogenic helix-loop-helix proteins through phosphorylation of a conserved protein kinase C site in their DNA binding domain, Jumin Zhou, 1992
- The basic region of myogenin cooperates with two transcription activation domains to induce muscle-specific transcription, Jumin Zhou, 1992
Awards
- NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999): National Institutes of Health
- NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship (1998): National Institutes of Health
- NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship (1997): National Institutes of Health
- First Prize Scholarship (1986): Institute Level
- Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai Universities (1986): Provincial Level
- First Prize Scholarship (1985): Institute Level
