Li Shen

Chinese, English

Zhejiang

Zhejiang University

Life Sciences

• 2000-2004 Bachelor: Nanjing University, Kuang Yaming Honors School
• 2004-2010 PhD: Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars
• Recipient of the Zhejiang Outstanding Youth Fund

• 2011-2012 Postdoctoral Fellow, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, USA
• 2012-2015 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School/HHMI/Boston Children's Hospital, USA
• 2015-present Professor, Researcher, Zhejiang University, School of Life Sciences

Dynamic regulation of DNA methylation and demethylation and its interaction with other epigenetic regulatory mechanisms such as histone modification and non-coding RNA
Epigenetic regulation mechanisms in development and cellular pluripotency, and their roles in induced pluripotent stem cells and cell transdifferentiation
Epigenetic regulatory networks in the occurrence and development of tumors and immune system diseases, and new drug research targeting epigenetic regulatory proteins
New applications of high-throughput sequencing technology and microfluidic chips in epigenetic research, and the development of related data analysis software