Biography
Jun-yuan Ji received a BSc in cell biology in 1994 from Lanzhou University and an MSc in developmental biology from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1997. He obtained a PhD in zoology from the University of Washington in 2003, studying the role of CDK1-Cyclin B in regulating the early embryonic cycles in Drosophila. From 2004 to 2009, Ji was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, where he studied mechanisms that control the G1 to S-phase cell-cycle transition. From 2009 to 2021, he was a professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine at Texas A&M University Health Science Center. Ji moved his laboratory to Tulane University in March 2021, as a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the School of Medicine. Current studies in his lab focus on understanding the molecular and genetic regulatory circuits that control lipid homeostasis and transcription during development and tumorigenesis.
