Areas of Focus
- Epigenetics
- Nuclear Hormone Receptors
- Stem Cells and Cancer
Work Experience
- 2020.9-present Dean of The School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University
- 2014-2020.9 Professor and Associate Dean, The School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University
- 2007-present Professor and Associate Director, The Institute of Biomedical Sciences, East China Normal University
- 2003-2007 Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
- 1997-2003 Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
- 1994-1997 Postdoctoral Fellow at Lab. of Molecular Embryology, NICHD/NIH
- 1987-1989 Research Assistant, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Shanghai, China
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1989-1994 Ph.D. in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, USA
- 1984-1987 M.S. in Cell Biology, Shanghai Institute of Cell Biology, Academy of Science
- 1980-1984 B.S. in Microbiology, Wuhan University, China
Publications
- Methylation of Histone H4 at Arginine 3 Facilitates Transcriptional Activation by Nuclear Hormone Receptor, Wong, J., Huang, Z., Xia, L., Feng, Q., Erdjument-Bromage, H., Strahl, BD., Briggs, SD., Allis, CD., Tempst, p and Zhang, Y., 2001
- Sequential recruitment of steroid receptor coactivator-1 (SRC-1) and p300 enhances progesterone receptor-dependent initiation and reinitiation of transcription from chromatin, Liu, Z., Wong, J., Tsai, S.Y., Tsai, M-J and O’Malley B.W., 2001
Awards
- 2001 Endocrine Society Young Investigator Award
- 2005 Outstanding Research Award, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine
- 2014 Shanghai Outstanding Academic Leader