East China Normal University
Email: jmweng@bio.ecnu.edu.cn

Dr. Jiemin Wong received his bachelor degree in Biology in 1984 from Wuhan University, MS degree in Cell Biology in 1987 from Shanghai Institute of Cell Biology and Ph.D degree in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology in 1994 from University of Vermont. He had his postdoc training in NIH during 1994-1997. He joined the Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in 1997 and promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 2003. Dr. Wong joined the School of Life Sciences and the Institute of Biomedical Sciences in East China Normal University in 2007 and since then has served as Professor and Associate Director for the Institute of Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Wong’s laboratory has long been interested in epigenetic regulation and transcriptional regulation by nuclear hormone receptors (NRs). His group has made contribution to the identification and characterization of the corepressor complexes of nuclear hormone receptors, histone demethylases and identification and characterization of histone code effectors. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers. His current research focuses on epigenetic regulation including DNA methylation and histone modifications.