Quanjiang Ji

Assistant Professor
Physical Science and Technology
Shanghai Tech University
China

Professor Materials Science
Biography

2016-now, assistant professor、PI (tenure-track),School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University;2014-2016, postdoc, College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley;2009-2014, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago; 2005-2009, B.S., Department of Chemistry, Nanjing University.

Research Intrest

Chemical Biology and Synthetic Biology

List of Publications
Fu Y, Luo GZ, Chen K, Deng X, Yu M, Han D, Hao Z, Liu J, Lu X, Doré LC, Weng X, Ji Q, Mets L, He C. N6-methyldeoxyadenosine marks active transcription start sites in Chlamydomonas. Cell. 161, 879-92 (2015).
Deng X, Chen K, Luo GZ, Weng X, Ji Q, Zhou T, He C. Widespread occurrence of N6-methyladenosine in bacterial mRNA. Nucleic Acids Res. 43, 6557-67 (2015).
Kang HB, Fan J, Lin R, Elf S, Ji Q, Zhao L, Jin L, Seo JH, Shan C, Arbiser JL, Cohen C, Brat D, Miziorko HM, Kim E, Abdel-Wahab O, Merghoub T, Fröhling S, Scholl C, Tamayo P, Barbie DA, Zhou L, Pollack BP, Fisher K, Kudchadkar RR, Lawson DH, Sica G, Rossi M, Lonial S, Khoury HJ, Khuri FR, Lee BH, Boggon TJ, He C, Kang S, Chen J. Metabolic Rewiring by Oncogenic BRAF V600E Links Ketogenesis Pathway to BRAF-MEK1 Signaling. Mol Cell. 59, 345-58 (2015).
Lin R, Elf S, Shan C, Kang HB, Ji Q, Zhou L, Hitosugi T, Zhang L, Zhang S, Seo JH, Xie J, Tucker M, Gu TL, Sudderth J, Jiang L, Mitsche M, DeBerardinis RJ, Wu S, Li Y, Mao H, Chen PR, Wang D, Chen GZ, Hurwitz SJ, Lonial S, Arellano ML, Khoury HJ, Khuri FR, Lee BH, Lei Q, Brat DJ, Ye K, Boggon TJ, He C, Kang S, Fan J, Chen J. 6-Phosphogluconate dehydrogenase links oxidative PPP, lipogenesis and tumour growth by inhibiting LKB1-AMPK signaling. Nat Cell Biol. 17, 1484-96 (2015).
Chen, W, Zhang, Y, Yeo, WS, Bae, T, Ji, Q. Rapid and efficient genome editing in Staphylococcus aureus by using an engineered CRISPR/Cas9 system. J Am Chem Soc DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b13317 (2017).