Areas of Focus
- Mitochondrial gene expression regulation and organ development
- Cell metabolism
Work Experience
- Postdoctoral Research - Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital (Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Pathophysiology)
- Current Position - Xi'an Jiaotong University (Developmental Genetics and Mitochondrial Biology)
Academic Background & Achievements
- Bachelor and Master - Nanjing University (Biology)
- PhD - Iowa State University (Biochemistry, Drosophila Genetics)
- Published articles as first author in high-impact journals
Publications
- LRTM1 promotes the differentiation of myoblast cells by negatively regulating the FGFR1 signaling pathway, Li H-K, Zhou Y, Ding J, Xiong L, Shi Y-X, He Y-J, Yang D, Deng Z-L, Nie M*, Gao Y-F*, 2020
- Therapeutic role of miR-19a/19b in cardiac regeneration and protection from myocardial infarction, Gao F, Kataoka M, Liu N, Liang T, Huang Z-P, Gu F, Ding J, Liu J, Zhang F, Ma Q, Wang Y, Zhang M, Hu X, Kyselovic J, Hu X, Pu, WT, Wang J, Chen J*, Wang D-Z*, 2019